Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

In two stories bound together back to back, a tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters and a greedy python eats to excess, finally eating himself.

Henry, feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and love in a big dog named Mudge.

A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.

Henry worries about what will happen to his big dog Mudge during their visit to his grandmother's house in the country. Spending the night at grandmother's house, Henry and Mudge help each other through a scary nighttime adventure when a collection of unfamiliar sounds keeps them awake.

A family with a house on the river finds two beavers cutting down trees and building a lodge on their dock.

Allie finds a frog for show-and-tell, but he disappears before she can take him to school.

By order of the Duke, Walter the Baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.

While trying out the spy glasses, spy hat, and other items in their new spy kit, seven-year-old Henry and his dog Mudge make a new friend and form a spy club.

Angelica and the babies find a way to participate in the library talent show fundraiser.

Ten-year-old Ben Franklin would rather be doing experiments than working in his father's candle shop, so to pass the time, he creates a kite with the hopes that he can cross the lake without swimming a single stroke.