In a second-hand shop window lives a little bear with a smile turned upside down and faded fur the color of tangerine, but the bear is not as sad as he appears to be, because he has found a home

The Tangerine Bear

Children's Books

Paraskevas, Betty

Animals

Harpercollins Childrens Books

In a second-hand shop window lies a little bear with a smile turned upside-down and faded fur the color of tangerine, but the bear is not as sad as he appears to be, because he has found a home.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Brief humorous poems describe each of the fourteen boys and thirteen girls in Ms. Gracie Graves' class

Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402

Literature & Fiction

Harcourt Childrens Books

When he is captured by a voracious beast with a polka-dot hide, a clever piglet tricks it into going on a diet of foods that it likes least until it collapses from hunger, prompting the piglet to find the beast a non-piglet meal.

The Ferocious Beast With the Polka-Dot Hide

Paraskevas, Michael

In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor’s roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather’s birthday cake with “little chocolate flies.” Michael Paraskevas’s zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.

Junior Kroll

HMH Books for Young Readers

Colorful illustrations help chronicle the exciting journey of a small boy and two huge polka-dotted creatures across the desert of Nowhere Land, as they try to reach Stucco Chateau to join the Shamlanders' tango.

Shamlanders

A boy and his grandfather, spending a day at the beach, are astonished when a sea monster comes to the aid of three naughty little boys who get caught in the rough surf. By the author and illustrator of Shamlanders.

Monster Beach

With bells on his shoes, presents on his mind, and the best intentions in the world, the inimitable Junior Kroll brings holiday joy to everyone he meets.

A Very Kroll Christmas

When a young boy meets private eye Cecil Bunions aboard the mysterious Midnight Super Train, he dreams that he and Cecil race through the cars and jump off the train right before it disappears.

Cecil Bunions and the Midnight Train

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Books by Paraskevas, Betty

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The Tangerine Bear

The Tangerine Bear

Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402

The Ferocious Beast With the Polka-Dot Hide

Junior Kroll

Junior Kroll

Shamlanders

Monster Beach

A Very Kroll Christmas

Cecil Bunions and the Midnight Train