A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted waters, they discover that their quest is more than they imagined and that the world's end is only the beginning. --amazon.com

Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls' side of the playground. Then, unexpectedly, Jess finds himself sticking up for Leslie, for the girl who breaks rules and wins races. The friendship between the two grows as Jess guides the city girl...

When the contents of Little a's sound box fall out, an astronaut helps him replace them and takes him for an unexpected ride as well. Features words beginning with the letter a.

Ramona's job is to be nice to fussy Mrs. Kemp, who watches her while her mother works.

The umbrellas Little u keeps in her sound box prove very useful to her uncle, an umpire, and others, when it begins to rain.

A collection of thirteen short stories that reveals frightening secrets lurking in everyday objects.

A collection of poetry, including King John's Christmas, Sneezles, Us Two, Cradle Song, and other poems from the life and imagination of a small child.

Eight short nursery rhymes about Cecily Parsley, Goosey Gander, the five pigs, Pussy-Cat, three blind mice, Tom Tinker's dog, a garden, and Ninny Nanny Netticoat.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.