In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.

Four children set off into the woods to find a moose.

When the wind blows so hard that it blows the quack right out of the duck, the oink out of the pig, and so on, Bonnie Bumble works hard to get each animal's sound back where if belongs.

Mrs. Potter keeps everything perfectly clean, except for her baby daughter Ermajean, who delights in being so messy that she seems to turn into a pig.

When Grandmother Winter shakes out her feather quilt birds, bats, bears, and other creatures prepare themselves for the cold.

In the middle of a dark, stormy night, one child, then another, then a third wake their mother and ask to climb into the bed, but when the last member of the family arrives Papa declares there is no more room.

Pierre the fox goes on a road trip to find a friend.

One by one ten sheep reluctantly fall asleep in the barnyard.

A wee small woman catches a giant taking the vegetables from her garden and finds that they can share both vegetable soup and friendship.

"The story of a forest "lost" by a surveying error-and all the flora and fauna to be found there A forest, of course, doesn't need a map to know where to grow. But people need a map to find it. And in 1882 when surveyors set out to map a part of Minnesota, they got confused, or tired and cold (it was November), and somehow mapped a great swath of ancient trees as a lake. For more than seventy-five years, the mistake stayed on the map, and the forest...