Jane Manning

Hosting a backyard sleepover for her two friends, Millie struggles to keep her temper when things do not go as she hoped, a situation that is further challenged by a scary howling dog.

Cindy Ellen loses one of her diamond spurs at the square dance in this wild western retelling of the classic Cinderella story.

Pip Squeak the mouse is kept awake all night by the drips from his leaky roof.

Mac finally convinces his best friend Cheese to go to the beach, but they miss the bus.

On a visit to the zoo, a little boy imagines what it would be like to be various animals, such as a hippopotamus or a penguin, and listens as his mother explains how all parents keep their young ones safe.

When Sam the lamb has trouble sneezing, the other animals try to help.

Billy spends time with his "second family" at the Floral Avenue firehouse where his mother works, and dreams of growing up to be a firefighter just like her.

Fast the alligator and Snappy the frog, the best pardner a Hop-to-It Express rider ever had, speed west with an important letter from President A. Blinkin while Gila Joe and his snakes try to stop them at every turn. Includes facts about the Pony Express.

Learn the alphabet and see a different buttocks on an animal with each letter.

Wilson is a curious sheep, and after he foolishly climbs into the back of a piano movers' truck, he ends up alone in the big city, far from the farm. But Wilson is also one smart sheep, and soon enough he's finding his way home to his worried owner by recognizing the sounds that he heard while he was trapped in the truck--a jackhammer, a calliope, a hotdog man. And could that be the excited barking of his friend Tippy, the border collie?