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While three bears are away from home, Goldilocks ventures inside their house, tastes their porridge, tries their chairs and finally falls asleep in Baby Bear’s bed.

Encourages the reader to exercise by following the movements of various animals.

Text and illustrations encourage readers, regardless of shape or size, to turn off the television and play games, walk, dance, and engage in sports and other forms of exercise.

Easy-to-read, rhyming text depicts different animals dancing.

Rhyming text describes the many ways to wiggle.

Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.

A mother dog tries to teach her pup how to bark, and is surprised at why he isn’t learning.

The reader is invited to count goats of many shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions.

A mother dog finds eight other animals hiding around the house before finding her lost puppy.

To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box.

Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.

In rhyming text reminiscent of the traditional song, “If you’re happy and you know it,” this book presents various animals that are hoppy, sloppy, growly, flappy, or slimy, scaly and mean.

A ladybug invites the reader to play a game of “let’s pretend.”

Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake.

A variety of monsters and other creatures demonstrate some of the different things that lines can do, from curve and curl to zig-zag.

Rhyming text counts off ten puppies as they awaken one by one, chase around the house, eat kibble and get washed, then fall back asleep.

Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music.

Two sleepy children sneak out of their beds to watch as their parents, who love each other very much, break into a dance while washing the dishes.

In this counting book, a set of owls work their way to the top of the Old Oak Tree for a party on Saturday night.

After a variety of animals get stuck in melted bubblegum, they must survive encounters with a big blue truck and a burly black bear.

Mouse invites the reader to shout out numbers, letters, and easy words.

This is the classic counting book where monkeys fall off the bed and mama calls the doctor.