New Releases by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Two groups of animals tell each other about the food and other things that they put in their pockets.

What can you do with a shoe? You can put it on your ear or wear it on your head or butter it like bread or use apple jam instead! What can you do with a hat? You can fill it up with pickles or with popcorn or with glue. An octopus could rest in it, a bird could build a nest in it, a turtle be a guest in it. Or would a horse look best in it? These are samples of the questions and wonderfully silly, laugh-provoking answers in a game played by a little girl and boy dressed up i their parents clothes. On every page of this whimsically playful book, there are enchanting watercolor illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Inspired by the infectiously funny pictures and text, children will soon begin to make rhymes of their own about everyday things. Richly imaginative and wholly in tune with children''s high spirits and sense of play, What can you do with a show?, now issued in a new edition with full-color paintings, will be welcomed by young and old. It is a treasure.

The biblical tale of the young sheperd who uses a slingshot to do battle with a giant and eventually becomes a king.

The friendship of Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse blossoms when they find something they both like to do.

Retells in verse the old tale of the boy who climbed a beanstalk, killed a giant, and won a fortune.

Billy was a very little boy but he fooled the giant.

A collection of poems describing some of the joys and sorrows of friendship.

Twelve cats inhabit one household in this charming tale. "A cat''s paradise and certainly enjoyable for young counters and catlovers".--The Horn Book.

Presents a collection of poems about feelings, from anger to acceptance.

Describes in rhyme the activities of cats and the joys of knowing them.

Amy''s wait outside the grocery store for her mother seems interminable, and she spends the time imagining the entire rest of her life.

A retelling of the Slavic fairy tale in which the Month Brothers'' magic helps Little Sister fulfill seemingly impossible tasks which prove the undoing of her greedy stepmother and stepsister.

A collection of limericks, poems, and verses.

Laura tells her mother a bedtime story about the perilous rescue of a tiny woman.

Nine riddles contain clues in verse to well-known animals.

Retells in verse the adventures of a little girl who meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

Recounts Willy O''Dwyer''s jumping journey that took him to the sun and back again.

A children''s song is illustrsted as a rhyme.

At the start a little girl is crying all alone, but at the end the little girl, two boys, and all the animals are laughing together.

A collection of jokes and humorous stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln presents revealing glimpses of Lincoln''s humanity and keen wit.

Imaginative prose and photograph depict a child and his shadow at play.

In these verses for children, the author and illustrator "have created a little world complete in itself."

Never satisfied with what he has, a man trades away a knife, a shoe, and even his wife, all the while wondering if he has made a good trade.