Melissa Sweet

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

Excited about holding onto his position as the best speller in the second grade, Pinky has an embarrassing accident but is cheered up by his best friend Rex.

Sleepy letters of the alphabet get ready for bed.

In this cumulative nursery rhyme and folk song, a parade forms when several farm animals join a boy and his apple wagon.

Pinky, Rex, and Amanda plot revenge on the bad-tempered old woman who lives across the street, until Pinky realizes that she is lonely and needs new friends.

Rex and her best friend Pinky, each the proud possessor of twenty-seven stuffed animals or dinosaurs, find their visit to the museum and its gift shop complicated by Pinky's little sister Amanda.

It's time for Pinky's family to get a new pet. Pinky wants a dog, but his mother and father vote with Amanda and soon they will have a cat. But when Patches, as the cat is named, sneaks into Pinky's room each night, Pinky's feelings begin to change.

After being left by the side of a road with nothing but her favorite sock toy, Tupelo meets a pack of dogs led by Garbage Pail Tex as they are wishing for new homes, then joins them as they catch a passing train and share stories of dog heroes.

An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.

Combines playful text with inventive artwork to encourage readers to celebrate the magic of discovering their very own poetry in the world around them.