Best Selling Books by Elmer Hader

Popular children''s authors, Berta and Elmer Hader, describe how they create their books together, and how their publisher, The Macmillan Company, turns their written and illustrated pages into books.

The woodland animals were all getting ready for the winter. Geese flew south, rabbits and deer grew thick warm coats, and the raccoons and chipmunks lay down for a long winter nap. Come Christmastime, the wise owls were the first to see the rainbow around the moon. It was a sure sign that the big snow was on its way.

Presents life in New York City which grew from a tiny Indian settlement.

The book tells the story of the Doe family, who live in a crowded city apartment. The family decides to build a house in the country, although everyone around them says it can''t be done. How a house is built is explained through the family''s joint effort in construction.

A brief look at authorship and publishing by a husband-and-wife team who have written many children''s books.

A story about a cat who fell into a well, became famous and brought good fortune to the family who took him in as a stray.

More than 170 painstakingly restored color and pen-and-ink illustrations accompany unforgettable game songs, tales of boys and girls, and lullabies, including "Hickory, Dickory, Dock," "Hey, Diddle, Diddle," and dozens more.

Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

The story of Tommy Thatcher, his wish to go sailing, and how that wish comes true.

A young Indian boy chooses to go hunting rather than go to school, until he meets a big grizzly bear.

The adventures of a mouse and his family.

The story of the banana, how it''s grown, harvested, cut, shipped, ripened, and sent to market.

A little red chick was born among the ducks. He seemed very strange them, but they accepted him until one day he was called on a long and scary journey home.

After fourty years of sailing as a ship''s carpenter, Toby Tubbs decides to retire with his cat, Blackie.

Tells the story of Johnny Morgan and his life in Jamaica.

The adventurous life of Spunky, a Shetland pony, from a pet to a worker in a coal mine to a circus pony.

"Little Town" can be any town, any place in the U.S.A. As the town wakes up, we follow all the doings of its citizens. We meet the milkman, the butcher, Officer O''Malley, and more neighbors. We can visit all the stores and shops along Main Street, sit in on a Town Meeting, watch the railroad deliver supplies to the shop keepers, and broad highway carry cars and trucks right past town.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

Watching the parade on Thanksgiving Day and coasting down the park slopes on sleds are just two of the things that Paul and his sister, Pamela, love about winter in the big city.

Should Mr. Billy use a fence, a scarecrow or a gun to keep the hungry quail family away from his garden? Finally, after the quails visit him while he is ill, and, with a friendly quail perching on his gun barrel, Mr. Billy smiles and decides that the only solution to his problem is to plant a bigger garden.