A collection of picture-book stories by such authors as Ludwig Bemelmans, Ezra Jack Keats, and Maurice Sendak.

Selected by Janet Schulman

Contents:

• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault
• Swimmy by Leo Lionni
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• "The Letter" from Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
• Freight Train by Donald Crews
• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
• A Million Fish...More or Less by Patricia C. McKissack
• A Boy, a Dog and a Frog by Mercer Mayer
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
• Curious George by H.A. Rey
• I Hear, I See, I Touch by Helen Oxenbury
• Miss Nelson Is Missing by Harry Allard
• Titch by Pat Hutchins
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• "The Cat Club" from Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• Stevie by John Steptoe
• Tub People by Pam Conrad
• "In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place" from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
• Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban
• "Stinky Cheese Man" from The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieska
• Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
• Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan and Jan Berenstain
• "Elves in the shelves" from A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken
• Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
• D.W. the Picky Eater by Marc Brown
• Petunia by Roger Duvoisin
• First Tomato by Rosemary Wells
• Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
• I Am a Bunny by Ole Risom
• Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
• Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus
• Owen by Kevin Henkes
• Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
• "Sneetches" from The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
• Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman