Introduces a crowd of colorful creatures, including crafty crocodiles, mischievous monkeys, and of course, loud lions. On board pages. Introduces a crowd of colorful creatures, including crafty crocodiles, mischievous monkeys, and of course, loud lions.

Cat the Cat's animal friends make many different sounds.

An exuberant cat introduces some new animal friends and the sounds they make.

Easy-to-read, rhythmic text about a group of farm animals, led by a tenacious duck, who play a noisy game together.

Little readers are invited to join these baby animals as they fly, swim, wiggle, and slide, all with the help of their mamas. But what these babies like best, of course, is spotting other baby animals! With the buoyant rhythms of Phyllis Root and David Walker's cheerful illustrations, here is a guaranteed favorite for young readers.

The cat can't meow, the dog can't bark, and even the mouse can't squeak. When they go to the little old lady in the woods for a spell to restore their voices, things don't go as expected.

"One day a tiny cricket is born. He meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but he cannot make a sound. And so the cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets him with a cheery hello."--P. [4] of cover.

As darkness falls in the forest, animals hoot, chirp, whirr, and bark, lulling drowsy children to sleep.

When the Big Blue Thing (a camper van to us humans) arrives on Howling Hill, the local wildlife all agree it has to go. First the wolves try to scare it away, then the bears, boars, and foxes have a turn. Finally the wise owls suggest sending the smallest critters ? the insects ? to do the job. A cloud of bees, flies, and dragonflies make sure that the Big Blue Thing runs away at top speed!

As Little Ghost searches the night for her lost "boo," her animal friends offer to lend their sounds but she will need the reader's help to find her special sound.