Hilda Hippo gets a special birthday present from her father and decides to share her gift with her friends in Busytown Park, but Hilda will not tell them what her gift is and leaves clues for her friends to figure out the mystery.
This board book is shaped like Huckle Cat from Richard Scarry's "Busytown Mysteries" TV show. Find out all about Huckle, Busytown's famous detective. Full color.
In this Busytown Mysteries book it seems like Mr. Fixit's lucky day! He finds a bunch of gold pirate coins in the sand of the Busytown Beach using a metal detector, and every time he picks up a coin and puts in his bag, he finds another one! But when he tries to show his treasure trove to Huckle, the coins are gone. Can Huckle, Sally, and Lowly solve the mystery?
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Adapted from a holiday-themed television episode, this book tells of Billy Dog, who doesn't believe in the Easter Bunny, until Hilda steps in and everyone gets a big surprise. Full color.
When Panda and Donkey are playing with Panda's favorite toys (pickle-shaped penguins!) and one accidentally gets stuck between two rocks, will they be able to rescue it?
Pig Will minds his manners, but naughty Pig Won't won't! In three stories, Pig Won't learns to play nicely, help with chores, and always say please and thank you. Richard Scarry's beloved characters make these cautionary tales more fun than didactic.
In this pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read based on Richard Scarry's Busytown Mysteries, readers help Huckle Cat solve a mystery about a radio message! A call for help on the police radio sounds like "Goat . . . duck . . . socks . . . HELP!" But what does that mean? Huckle finds out that different words can sound alike, and that the message isn't really about goats, ducks, or socks at all! But will he solve the mystery in time?
A collection of rhymes, verses, jingles, riddles, and limericks from traditional sources, together with a selection of favorite poems by English and American authors, chiefly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.