Melissa Sweet

While a little girl who loves red--and loves to dilly-dally--stops to paint a picture on the way to visit her grandmother, her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.

On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.

Presents a biography of early twentieth-century artist Horace Pippin, detailing his creative influences and the cultural impact of his art.

Children delight in jumping, leaping, crunching, stomping, and raking as leaves fall down on them.

Excited about holding onto his position as the best speller in the second grade, Pinky has an embarrassing accident but is cheered up by his best friend Rex.

In this cumulative nursery rhyme and folk song, a parade forms when several farm animals join a boy and his apple wagon.

Pinky, Rex, and Amanda plot revenge on the bad-tempered old woman who lives across the street, until Pinky realizes that she is lonely and needs new friends.

Rex and her best friend Pinky, each the proud possessor of twenty-seven stuffed animals or dinosaurs, find their visit to the museum and its gift shop complicated by Pinky's little sister Amanda.

It's time for Pinky's family to get a new pet. Pinky wants a dog, but his mother and father vote with Amanda and soon they will have a cat. But when Patches, as the cat is named, sneaks into Pinky's room each night, Pinky's feelings begin to change.

Rex and her best friend Pinky decide that they like each other enough to get married, and all their stuffed toys and dinosaurs appear as guests at the wedding.