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Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

Princess Magnolia and her unicorn, Frimplepants, are on their way to have brunch with Princess Sneezewort, an occasion Frimplepants enjoys more than anything in the world. But just when he can smell the freshly baked bread and the heaping platters of sugar-dusted doughnuts, Princess Magnolia s glitter-stone ring rings.

Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

Peter's mischievous cousin, Benjamin Bunny, persuades him to go back to Mr. McGregor's garden to retrieve the clothes he lost there. On board pages.

Join the unsuspecting Jemima Puddle-Duck as she foolishly allows the cunning Fox to help her find a "safe" nest.

Max and his sister Ruby go on an egg hunt and vie with each other for the prize--a chocolate chicken.

A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.

Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.

While on a picnic, Bunny and Mouse see everything that happens to them from opposite points of view--Bunny sees only the good, while Mouse sees only the bad.

When the Flopsy Bunnies venture over to Mr. McGregor's garbage heap to find dinner, trouble ensues when they fall asleep in the warm sun after their meal.