A collection of twelve stories, including How the Camel Got His Hump, and How the Leopard Got His Spots.

Presents the three adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, as well as other animal stories and songs. Includes discussion questions and explanatory notes.

Rhyming text explores the ways different animals care for their offspring, from roadrunners to skunks to humans.

Freddy the pig does some detective work in order to solve the mystery of the missing toy train. The delightful detective story about the beloved animal characters on Mr. Bean's farm, whose adventures have entertained so many children. Freddy the Pig has been reading Sherlock Holmes and knows that he, too, can apply his brain to solving mysteries. Beginning with Farmer Bean's son's loss of a toy train Freddy becomes very efficient in the apprehension...

"Chaos ensues when a child imagines a zoo filled with animals doing the unusual and the unlikely"--

The adventures of Peter Rabbit, Johnny Chuck, Reddy Fox, the Merry Little Breezes, and all their companions in the fields, the woods, and the streams.

Determined to prove that the cow he meets is really a moose, Morris the moose enlists the help of a rather confused deer and horse.

When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

When Lucy, a pregnant giant anteater from Belize, is blamed for killing the man found dead in her pen, California zookeeper Teddy Bentley must find the real culprit before Lucy is shipped to another zoo, but her investigation is undermined by another murder.

At bedtime, a young boy who cannot find his favorite book imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.