The eighty-eight poems about dogs in this distinctive anthology span from Shakespeare to the contemporary humorous verse of Ogden Nash, arranged in ten delightful and original categories.

Describes the ways robins, redwing blackbirds, rheas, Mexican jays, and cowbirds care for their newly-hatched young.

Dulcie, according to her parents, was a swimmer. It was Pat, Dulcie’s sixteen-year-old sister, who took tennis lessons, wore smashing tennis dresses, won local tournaments, and tried to use tennis and the good grades she earned in…

After her mother, prone to fits of anger, remarries, Laurie, a battered child, is aided by her new nine-year-old stepbrother in finding the help that she so badly needs

A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems for children.

After meeting Piper, a homeless young girl on the run, Kate’s California vacation is transformed into suspense-filled adventure.

Willie’s encounter with a feline ghost outside a deserted mansion leads to a strange dream about events which occurred prior to the Civil War.