Joy Cowley

Nature In a tropical rain forest in Central America, a red-eyed tree frog spends the night looking for food while avoiding potential predators. Award-winning photographer Nic Bishop's larger-than-life, gorgeous images document the hunt, which ends happily with the frog settling down in the leaves to spend his daylight hours sleeping! Joy Cowley's simple, readable text makes the frog's story fun, interesting, and accessible to young readers. This is...

Bert wants nothing more than to be old enough to fight in the war—to handle weapons, defend his country, and have a life filled with adventure. Little does he know that the secrets and danger of war don't always stay at the front line, and that one boy's actions can change everything.

Trouble ensues when Papa gets Miguel a turkey to fatten up for Thanksgiving and Miguel develops an attachment to it.

When Mrs. Wishy-Washy asks her farm animals to take a bath for Christmas, they find a way to take one without freezing.

Relates the story of the summer Josh spends while his mother is in the hospital awaiting the birth of his baby sister, and his pet chicken Semolina, who talks but only to him, is almost killed by a red fox.

A collection of stories about the friendship between Snake and Lizard.

Presents a retelling of the tale about the three little pigs, each with a distinctive personality, who build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, and the big, bad wolf who tries to blow their houses down and eat them.

Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. Peter Pan lives in Neverland, where he is aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling.