Eight little stories in which animal friends play, move, get lost, and do things all children do.

"Golden book." A mouse family makes some musical instruments and forms a band.

A mouse helps his family prepare for Christmas.

When left alone, Sweetie mouse finds a way to get to the cookie basket.

A tiny mouse dances his way through this book of ABCs, 1-2-3s, colors, opposites, shapes, animal sounds, feelings, and more.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by labeled pictures. On board pages.

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

Broody Hen lays an egg, hatches Little Chick, and explains how Little Chick will grow up to lay eggs of her own.