Picture Book

When Little Red Chicken comes home excited about what she learned in school, she explains to Papa that every story has "an elephant of surprise."

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.

Zookeeper Amos McGee always makes time to visit his friends who live at the zoo until the day he stays home because he is sick.

A peddler who sells caps by balancing them all on his head is invited to do an act in the circus.

Distressed because sixteen monkeys are copying his every move, Pezzo the peddler seeks the advice of his friend Essie, who recommends patience.

A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.

A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

Pleased with his success in riding a bike, Duck decides to drive the farm tractor and invites all the other farm animals along for the ride--all the way to town.

Pleased with his success in riding a bike, Duck decides to drive the farm tractor, and invites all the other farm animals along for the ride--all the way to town.