Andrew Clements

A temple cat in ancient Egypt grows tired of being worshiped and cared for in a reverent fashion and travels to the seaside, where he finds genuine affection with a fisherman and his children.

Slippers the puppy loves each of the four people who share his home.

Celebrates in verse, accompanied by photographs, the many things hands can do.

"The original and grandest version of this well-known tale paints an exotic world of primitive peasant villages, dense, dark jungles, and alluring lagoons--all of which compose the surroundings of Mowgli (Sabu), a boy raised by wolves. Although Mowgli loves his world and is able to communicate with his animal companions, somewhere within himself he harbors a longing to return to his human roots and to the village of his birth. Once there, however,...

Includes A Pocket for Corduroy (Corduroy goes on an adventure through the Laundromat in search of the one thing he thinks he is missing, a pocket); Blue Burt and Wiggles (two best friends try to make the summer last forever); and Big Al (Big Al wants to make friends, but all of the other fish are afraid of him, until one day he proves what a great friend he can be). Features sign language vocabulary and alphabet fingerspelling.