Sally Grindley

The farm yard animals help Mother Hen find her lost chicks.

"There's a hurricane smashing, trashing, bashing through our house. CRASH! BANG! WALLOP!" The hurricane is Wills, Chris's thirteen-year-old brother. He has ADHD. Having a brother who causes so much chaos around the house is hard on eleven-year-old Chris. Sometimes Wills acts like he's six years younger, sometimes like he's only a toddler. He throws food on the floor, has tantrums, and teases Chris relentlessly. And when Chris and Wills's dad moves...

Focusing on the "ai" sound, this book tells how Gail captures a snail to keep him from making a trail.

Grandfather Bear thinks his cubs are so wonderful, he cannot imagine them being naughty.

Oliver and Mucky Duck, a duck who lives in the garden pond, have trouble staying clean because they love to do things like playing football and painting.

Queen Ella has cold feet and needs a "sheet"/"sheep" to keep them warm!

Tom is not happy that his younger sister, Alice, is starting kindergarten at his school.

The reader is asked to identify fairy tale heroes and villains from clues in the text and illustrations.

Contains two children's stories about the friendship between a fox and a bear.

Figgy Twosocks sulks when her friend Jefferson Bear goes away to hibernate, but in time she finds a new friend in Hoptail the squirrel and is able to play again with Jefferson after winter ends.