Chris L. Demarest

As the bus moves along, the rider sees the sights of a city and hears the sounds of honking trucks, wailing sirens, and chiming bells.

Rhyming text and illustrations show how the United States Coast Guard uses aircraft and a rescue swimmer to respond to a call for help.

While playing with a blue boat in the bathtub, a young girl imagines she is on an ocean voyage.

A little goose searches for her mother in this lift-the-flap book.

Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairytales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliantly funny author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as of the hilarious middle-grade series, The Hamlet Chronicles. Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy- tales, could be twisted...

A stone lion, bored with sitting outside the public library day after day, ventures inside to see if it is worth guarding.