Winner of the 1953 Caldecott Medal Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.

'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceeding surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore, which was very plain to be seen in the Sand ...

Few novels ever swept the world with such overpowering impact as "Les Miserables". Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of ...

A biography of the patriot who had many trades, among them silver work, engraving, and dentistry.

In the early 1800's a runaway apprentice takes refuge in the New Jersey pine barrens and learns to come to terms with his troubled past.

Two burros sold to the slave-driving owners of the silver mine eventually return to save their village from starvation.

A cat looks on as her master, a poor Japanese artist, works on a painting commissioned by a high priest. The artist must paint all the animals blessed by Buddha except cats ...