Joey the kangaroo plays games with Twisker the bush mouse, Slider the snake, Prickler the echidna, Flatso the platypus, and Sly-tooth the crocodile.

A dingo intent on making wombat stew receives cooking suggestions from the other animals, unaware that they are protecting theirfellow creature.

Jackrabbit brags to the other animals that he is so brave that he can do all kinds of things, including kiss a coyote.

Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the north.

A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a fourteen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.

"...Marcia Vaughan's high-spirited text and best-selling illustrator Lisa Desimini's buoyant artwork create a joyous picture book that evokes the ethereal beauty of the American desert--and celebrates a most beloved figure of native folklore."

"This is the story of a girl who promised to help people in need. This the story of a social worker who stood up to the Nazis. This is the story of a secret agent who saved thousands of Jewish children. This the story of a woman who faced death to do what was right. This is the story of Irena Sendler."--