Sylvie Kantorovitz

Young Sosha buys a shaggy old teddy bear at a yard sale and brings him home for some special care and love.

"Pocketville is a small town, set in its ways, and the arrival of a stranger causes a stir. Monti the mole is stunned one morning to find Leo the crocodile hogging his special reading rock. When Monti visits the bakery and the library, he learns that the last cinnamon roll has been purchased, and the book he was waiting for has been checked out. What's a fastidious mole to do? When Monti confronts Leo, the newcomer turns out to be agreeable in the...

Pickle thinks he needs a new car, and tries several that are either too fast, too large, or too expensive--until Coco the mechanic shows him what's wrong with the car he already had.

Trying to avoid bedtime, Lucy uses her imagination and some crayons to draw a monster to play with.

As the rickety old bus collects an odd assortment of passengers in a quaint little town, the reader may join in with the sounds of the bus and motions of the driver and passengers.

A retelling of the traditional tale in which five silly fishermen, unable to count properly, are convinced that one of their group has drowned.