Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Kay finds himself involved in a fantastic adventure when he becomes guardian of the mysterious Box of Delights.

Grandmother has a very special routine, one that she follows every day: She goes fishing.

Captain Tinker sends Jenny Linsky off to boarding school for the summer, but when another student frightens her, she tries to run away.

Cheerful, a city church mouse who dreams of living in the country, sets off on an adventure.

On the border of Scotland and England beginning in the early 1880s, two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep--a battle which must end in death.

When a family buys a new house, each member has a different idea of what color to paint it.

"All of Us is a collective history of the world, told from an uncommon point of view. Written in the first-person plural, All of Us is a book of our history, emphasizing our unity as a species, beginning with the birth of our planet and our common origins in Africa, and describing how we came to be who we are in all our numerous guises. As hunter-gatherers and nomads, inventors of tools, farmers and breeders, we evolved in various ways, influenced...

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967. Tells of Brookie's love for her lamb that could only read and sing the words, "Baa."