Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.

When there is too much noise in the tree house, Mama and Papa Bear wonder if they will ever get any peace and quiet!

When the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia helps out at her doctor's office one busy day, nothing seems to go quite right until Amelia begins to treat the impatient patients.

When Harry, the class pet, gets out while at Amelia Bedelia's school break, Amelia and her friends must find him.

Explore the lives of bison with Ranger Rick in this beginning reader with full-color photos of bison in the wild! What if you wished you were a bison and then you became one? Could you talk like a bison, with grunts and snorts? Could you eat like a bison, chomping lots and lots of grass? And would you want to? Find out! Ranger Rick explorers can learn all about bison in this reader full of fascinating facts, vivid wildlife photographs, a Wild Words...

How did the dinosaurs die? They were the biggest, most powerful animals that ever walked the earth. Now they are all gone -- extinct. Sixty-five million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth, with devastating effects. Paleontologist Charlotte Lewis Brown and artist Phil Wilson recreate what may have happened to the dinosaurs on that deadly day.

"Pinkalicious can't wait to have a kindergarten buddy. But what if her buddy doesn't like kindergarten? Will Pinkalicious be able to show her how pinkatastic it can be? Young readers in kindergarten now or getting ready for it will relate to Pinkalicious's hopes and be reassured by her friendship success"--

"Ty turns an ordinary day in the sandbox into a fun beach day. He wiggles his toes in the sand, finds seashells, builds a castle, and splashes in the ocean. When his neighbor's beach ball flies into his backyard, Ty learns that a beach day is even better with a friend"--

Find out how polar bears eat, talk and sleep, among other interesting facts.