Larry Robinson

A young boy imagines what it was like long ago when a dinosaur lived in his back yard.

Pauline the hen lays unusual eggs, but Mrs. Pennywort, her owner, thinks they're beautiful, and she and Pauline work together to open an Easter egg farm.

Follows the humorous mishaps of a second grader who is learning to read.

A little boy has a series of adventures and misadventures with a bunch of wild animals.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

It is when the fix-it man is trying to repair the television and her parents are trying to entertain her that Emma becomes so interested in reading, she no longer cares about TV.

Baked, stewed, or mashed, pumpkins remind Rebecca of the Great depression when that was all her family had to eat. When an enormous pumpkin falls off a truck and smashes in her yard she devises a clever way to get rid of the crop that sprouts.

Ira is surprised to discover that his best friend Reggie feels happy about having to move to a new town.

"Three favorite holidays--Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving--are explored and celebrated in this joyous collection.