Best Selling Books by Leonard P. Kessler

A traditional nursery rhyme is expanded to include a tuba-playing cat, a singing rug, a flying whale, and a horse who eats pickles.

Bobby changes from an "easy out" to a game-winning hitter with the help of a friend and a lot of hard work

"Here is a first book about the most powerful tool in the world --a line-- and what it can do....shows the close relationship between pictures and writing -- both are just lines." -- book jacket

Under Old Turtle''s guidance, the animals learn how to play soccer ad the meaning of good sportsmanship.

A guide to drawing and painting.

After Freddy is pushed into deep water by a couple of toughs, he decides to learn to swim.

A witch, a ghost, and a witch''s cat trigger some rhyming Halloween riddles.

A Friendship is tested when Pig accidentally breaks Duck''s new chair.

Pig sets out to paint her house orange but finds her plans upset by help from too many well-meaning friends.

When he teaches his grandchildren some tricks for Halloween, Grandpa Witch''s problems with his magic begin to multiply.

The loss of baby teeth by some of the children prompts their school class to learn about dental care.

In this takeoff on the traditional Mother Goose rhyme, a cat and mouse play around an animated clock face.

In this takeoff on the well-known rhyme, Mother Hubbard goes to extraordinary lengths to make her dog happy.

Duck discovers how exhausting baby-sitting Pinky Pig can be.

Mother Goose plans a party for all her nursery rhyme friends but on her way home with the party things, she has a fall and becomes mixed-up.

Strange things happen when a witch, a dragon, and a ghost go trick-or-treating.

After he retires, Stan becomes a hot dog man and finds that his new job helps him come to the rescue during a big snowstorm.

Rabbit was the first one to hear it. Duck was the first one to see it. Cat was the first one to feel it. But what is it? It turns out to be a football, and it leads the animal friends to discover the exciting game of football. Young sports fans have cheered Kick, Pass, and Run for thirty years. Now Leonard Kessler has reillustrated his classic I Can Read Book in full color, bringing this popular tale to a new generation of beginning readers.

A bus gets stuck in a hole in the road, holding up a long line of other vehicles and the repair of the road.

After a big snowstorm, a little boy''s daddy stays home from work since there''s too much snow to drive to work.

The three Sweeney children face their first day at a new school and their first afternoon of taking care of themselves while their mother is at work.

The animals prepare for and participate in the Big Mile Race.

An illustrated collection of animal jokes and riddles.

Bobby changes from an "easy out" to a game-winning hitter with the help of a friend and a lot of hard work.

Everyone gets to participate in the first All-Animal Olympics except Worm but he keeps training anyway.

A sign painter decides to take a day off to paint pictures.

Depicts the legs of various creatures, including humans, and some of their uses.

Bobby changes from an "easy out" to a game-winning hitter with the help of a friend and a lot of hard work.