Central Kansas Library System

Peter disobeys his mother, and almost gets caught in Mr McGregor's garden. Beatrix Potter's classic tale of mischievous little Peter Rabbit is produced in a lovely new board book format. The text and illustrations of the classic Tale of Peter Rabbit, loved by children around the world for generations, appear in full.

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...

Scuffy the toy tugboat sails off down the stream to the river and on to the sea taking in all kinds of sights and scenery along the way.

In the spring a young rabbit searches the forest for a place to make his home.

A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother, but something always seems to go wrong.

Trying to be good for Christmas without bungling everything up is difficult.

Little Critter feels so frustrated that he thinks of running away.

Even though Puppy misbehaves, he makes a wonderful pet.

A child imagines all the things to be done when one is bigger.