But I Want To!

When a little boy's mother tells him ""no!,"" the sassy and determined youngster balks. ""But I want to!"" he declares. ""And if I want to, I will!"" What follows is every child's dream of mischief and mayhem. The hero sends his mother off to the moon in a rocket, gorges himself on sweets, and jumps on his bed until it breaks. But even this most energetic mischief-maker grows tired eventually, and when he does, he wants his mother back to read him a bedtime story and kiss him good night.
John A. Rowe's comical, cartoonlike illustrations capture the gleeful abandon of a rebellious and imaginative youngster's wild dream of freedom.

Children's Books

Ruhmann, Karl

Humor

North-South Books

One day Sam decides he does not want to go to school. He comes up with the idea of sending his stuffed monkey in his place. As he dresses the monkey in his own school clothes, tells him how to behave, and describes kindergarten, Sam realizes how bored he'll be at home. Sam decides that they will both go to school today. Whether it's first-day jitters or middle-of-term blahs, here's the perfect solution for children who don't want to go to school.

Who Will Go to School Today?

Ruhmann, K

Monnier, M

Animals

NorthSouth

A little fir tree grew at the edge of the forest. Behind it, the great pines towered, and an oak tree spread its shadow far and wide. Birds build their nests in the pines. squirrels eat the nuts and acorns. Children even build a tree house in the oak. But nobody thinks the fir tree is useful. It is just too little. The little tree hates being so small. Some day I'll show them, the fir tree thought. But it didn't know how. Then one day the snow begins to fall. Christmas is coming, and Christmas is a time of magical surprises--sometimes even for a little fir tree.

Little Christmas Tree

Holidays & Celebrations

Stork is delighted when the sly fox invites her to share his delicious mouse-tail soup. But fox is indeed sly. He serves the soup in such shallow dishes that Stork, with her long bill, can't drink a drop and then he greedily eats both portions himself! Stork is stunned by Fox's mean trick. But then she has a cunning idea of her own. She who laughs last, laughs best in this charming adaptation of a favorite Aesop fable with the wickedly satisfying moral: one bad turn deserves another.

The Fox and the Stork

Stork is delighted when the sly fox invites her to share his delicious mouse-tail soup. But fox is indeed sly. He serves the soup in such shallow dishes that Stork, with her long bill, can't drink a drop, and then he greedily eats both portions himself! Stork is stunned by Fox's mean trick. But then she has a cunning idea of her own. She who laughs last, laughs best in this charming adaptation of a favorite Aesop fable with the wickedly satisfying moral: one bad turn deserves another.

The Fox and the Stork: A Fable by Aesop