Central Kansas Library System

Poems by the author of Treasure Island which reflect a child's experiences and imagination.

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...

A horse of nineteenth century England tells his life story from his early home through many masters and experiences, both good and bad.

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...

By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.

A colorfully illustrated collection of fifty traditional Mother Goose rhymes.

Pictures and brief text introduce the characteristics of various dinosaurs.

Little Critter does his enthusiastic best to help his babysitter, although his efforts frequently make a bad situation worse.