A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain--Title page verso

Kevin is a koala who clings to his tree, and never comes down to play with the other animals--until one day his tree falls down, and Kevin learns that the ground is not as scary as he believed.

Little mouse cannot sleep because it is too quiet--but when he really listens he finds the night is full of all sorts of sounds, so many if fact that it is too noisy to sleep.

Describes a baby falling asleep as sailing out in a silver moon boat.

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate a parents' joy as ten tiny toes enter the world and, later, learn to walk, bop, and jump.

Visit with all the animals on a jungle boat cruise.

In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam.

Told in rhyme, a bear settles on the narrator's porch, and is soon followed by many other woodland friends, until the porch collapses under the weight--but bear and his friends repair the damage and almost everybody is invited to lunch.

When, two weeks before Christmas, the elves discover that Santa's sleigh is in a bad state, twelve teams of elves set out to build twelve different sleighs: a souped up hot rod, a semitruck that flies, a ship that sails in the sky, and each version is more elaborate than the one before--but which will Santa choose?