A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

"Moose, Goose, and Mouse ride a loose caboose on their way to finding a new house"--

"An imagined story about Henri Rousseau's famous painting tells why a lion and a gypsy are in the painting and a lizard, a rabbit, a turtle, and other animals are not"--

"The world!" the newly born Hermes says. "It's even better than I expected! I love it! I want it all!" This book is filled with joy, exuberance, and humor. On his first day of life, Hermes manages to trick a turtle into surrendering its shell and a ram into surrendering its horns, thereby inventing the lyre, music, and song! He also manages to steal his brother Apollo's precious cows, but later redeems himself by outwitting the giant brothers Otus...

An alliterative alphabet book presents mean and monstrous letters, from A (an awfully arrogant amphibian) to Z (a zig-zagging zoological zany).

The excessively quiet town of Pupickton and the sleeping lovesick giant upon which it was built, are both awakened by the joyful noise of a little girl's songs.

"Once in a book by Mordecai Gerstein ... there lived a family of characters." This is the tale of one little girl's search for her own story.

An hour-by-hour description of the activities that take place as the sun rises, moves through the sky, and finally sets.

After dying, a Tibetan woodcutter is given the choice of going to heaven or to live another life anywhere in the universe.