Caralyn Buehner

On Christmas Eve, snowmen hold a party in the center of town and celebrate with food, music and dancing, and presents.

Ollie Octopus, Bucky Beaver, Rateesh Rat, and other animal characters encounter moral dilemmas involving such virtues as honesty, thoughtfulness, and trustworthiness. The reader is invited to select the appropriate behavior from a series of choices.

"After an early snowfall, a few kids build some snowmen before going trick-or-treating. And when the kids go off to bed, the snowmen have their own Halloween festival! There's candy and apple-bobbing and costume contests and all sorts of autumn activities. When the kids wake up the next morning, the snowmen are gone...but they've left a very special message behind"--

Tired of being overlooked because he is so small, a big-hearted dog named Dexter transforms himself into a superhero.

In this variation on the classic folktale, a rhyming, rope-skipping, little girl rudely helps herself to the belongings of a genteel family of bears.

Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.

When a bored queen decides to take a beauty school correspondence course, she begins monopolizing the time of her village's farmers with practice sessions in hairdressing and nail care.

A young boy is never sure if his older cousin is teasing or telling the truth.

Tried of being overlooked because he is so small, a big-hearted dog named Dexter transforms himself into a superhero