Books with author Leslie Tryon

It is springtime in Pleasant Valley, home of Albert the duck, the hero of several previous books by Leslie Tryon, including Albert's Thanksgiving and Alberts Alphabet. What is the industrious Albert involved in this time? Springtime is the opening season for America's favorite pastime. It's time to play ball, and Albert turns his energies to coaching the local team. There are beanballs and knuckleballs, fly balls and foul balls and maybe even a home run in a game full of the joys and mishaps that all such games entail. Leslie Tryon's artwork is full of Spring Valley's familiar friends as well as heartwarming detail that places the reader smack in the middle of the park. An outing to be cherished.

It is Christmastime in Pleasant Valley and Albert is ready to usher in the season. This year he's got an important surprise for his friends -- Santa Claus is making a visit to their hometown. But it's not just for fun and games, this is one of Santa's official stops. And that means Albert and his friends have just twelve minutes to feed the reindeer and wax their antlers, squeegee the windshield on the sleigh, and do everything else before all of Santa's systems are go. Then it's countdown to liftoff, with a special thanks from Santa to all of his helpers.

They are rude and impolite! Something has to be done about the behavior of the children in Ms. Klingensmith's first-grade class or the Open House on Friday, when all the parents come to visit, will be a disaster. And who better than Patsy Pig to teach these young ones about their manners? So each day Patsy visits the class with yet more instructions on how to be the perfect little angels she knows they can be. But does anyone listen to what Patsy says? Leslie Tryon returns to the Pleasant Valley Elementary School, home of Patsy's dear friend, the famous Albert, and offers young readers a riotous look at their own capacity to be naughty or nice.