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A Rocket in my pocket

the rhymes and chants of young Americans
1988
More than 400 riddles, chants, tall tales, jingles and tongue twisters, made up by children from all parts of the United States.

A Christmas tree in the White House

2001
President Theodore Roosevelt does not approve of cutting down living trees just to be used as Christmas decorations, but his two young sons try to sneak one into the White House anyway.

When spring comes

1996
Text and photographs depict the typical activities of spring.

When summer comes

1996
Text and photographs depict the typical activities of summer.

When autumn comes

1992
Depicts in words and photographs the coming of autumn.

My crayons talk

1999
Brown crayon sings "Play, Mud pie day," and Blue crayon calls "Sky, Swing so high" in this story about talking crayons.

There was an old lady who swallowed a trout!

2002
Set on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme describes the silly consequences of an old woman's fishy diet.

Birches

2002
An illustrated version of the well-known poem about birch trees and the pleasures of climbing them.

The colors of us

2002
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.

Chester, the out-of-work dog

1997
Chester's attempts to find a herding job after his human family moves into town prove disastrous until he meets a group of lost children.

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