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The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band
Joan Betty Stuchner, Richard Bow, Richard Row
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, Sept. 1, 2001)Every time the Kugel Valley Klezmer Band performs, young Shira watches closely. Isaac, the best fiddle player in Nova Scotia, sees her. He gives her a toy fiddle and tells her to practice. She does, and soon she thinks she sounds pretty good. But is she good enough for a real fiddle--or for the Kugel Valley Klezmer Band? Full-color illustrations.
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Dogs Don't Wear Glasses
Adrienne Geoghegan
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, March 1, 1996)When Nanny Needles mistakenly believes that her dog Seymour has vision problems, she takes him to the eye doctor to be fitted for glasses
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Little Turtle: And the Song of the Sea
Sheridan Cain, Norma Burgin
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, March 1, 2000)Little Turtle hatches on the beach and struggles to make a perilous journey down to the sea.
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The Woodcutter's Mitten: An Old Tale
Loek Koopmans
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, Sept. 1, 1990)A series of increasingly larger animals manage to squeeze into a lost mitten, until the owner comes back to look for it
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The Elephant's Child
Rudyard Kipling, Jan Mogensen
Paperback (Crocodile Books, April 15, 1991)Because of his "satiable curiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.
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A Happy Tale
Dorothy Bulter, Dorothy Butler, John Hurford
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, Nov. 1, 1990)Both good and bad luck accompany Mabel as she tries to get across her island to her new home.
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The Elephant's Child
Rudyard Kipling, Jan Mogensen
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, July 1, 1989)Because of his "satiable curiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks
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The Flower
Chris Baines, Penny Ives
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, April 1, 1990)A delightful series to introduce young children to nature and environment. Each story is set on a small piece of wasteland and tells, step-by-step, how the life of plants and animals changes and re-establishes itself when two children take a hand -- by planting a seed, moving an old boot, having a picnic or visiting a nest-site.
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The Prickly Hedgehog
Mark Ezra, Gavin Rowe
Paperback (Crocodile Books, March 1, 1997)Little Hedgehog's legs are too short for him to keep up with his family on their trip to the country
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Worms Can't Fly
Aislinn O'Loughlin, Larry O'Loughlin, Aileen Caffrey
Paperback (Crocodile Books, Dec. 1, 2001)Collects funny poems on a number of themes, including animals, parodies of nursery rhymes, and teenage life.
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Rose Red and Snow White
Ruth Sanderson
Paperback (Crocodile Books, March 31, 2015)A beautiful retelling of the classic Brothers Grimm tale with lavish full-color oil paintingsRed Rose and Snow White are as different as two sisters can be. Even so, they get along and, together with their mother, make a cozy life in their cottage in the woods.Then one night, Rose Red answers a knock at the door and finds a huge shaggy bear who gruffly asks for a warm place to sleep! Although alarmed at first, mother and daughters alike are soon charmed by the bear and happily shelter him from winter nights.When spring arrives, the girls sadly watch their friend lumber off. Soon after he disappears, they make a new acquaintance. Was this the little man the bear warned them of before he left?
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The Monkey Who Wanted the Moon
Anne Mangan, Catherine Walters
Hardcover (Crocodile Books, Sept. 1, 2000)Simia, a young monkey, wants to grab any pretty thing she sees, but from experience she discovers that this is not always a good idea.
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