New Releases by Thacher Hurd

An introduction to the migration, mating, and seashore life of the brown and white sandpiper.

Sir Francis Drake''s voyage around the world in the "Golden Hind". Grades 4-6.

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie have a very busy day at their pet shop, caring for all the animals, catching three skunks, and finding a home for a dog no one has bought.

Jack builds a hideout out of large wooden crates and spends his summer days there inviting in imaginary friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie buy all the proper equipment and go on a camping trip, sleeping and cooking outdoors and fishing in a river.

When young Joe tries to catch a fox for a pet he gets a lion instead and must learn that neither is the right pet for him and that he cannot find the right one until he learns no pet likes to be kept in a box.

The tale of what happens when a little girl and a ghost change places.

Mr. Charlie likes eggs so much that he wants to raise chickens, but first he must build them a proper home.

A little cat who thinks she is big enough and tough enough goes out one night to see San Francisco and causes a great commotion before she returns to her own house the next morning.

Young Tom Cartwright finds adventure and intrigue as a printer''s apprentice in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1775.

The adventure of a little boy, Adam, at the St. George''s Day Fair, in colonial times. The story is set in Williamsburg, Virginia

Two little gardeners plant a garden in the spring, tend to it all summer, and pick the vegetables when they are ripe.

The story of bus travel from the moment a ticket is bought to the end of the trip.

In a story about a truck driver taking his heavily loaded trailer truck over the mountain on a stormy night, small [children] will get an idea of the trucking business and some of the kinds of trucks used for transporting goods."

The story of a bulldozer ''who was very bad when he was mad'' but he co-operated beautifully when he was told he could lead the parade when the highway was finished.