Frank Carlson Library

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.

A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit ... and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won't rise. The animals discuss the situation and decide to punish the mosquito. Even today, whenever we hear a mosquito buzz, we smack it hard!

On a cattle drive in the desert on the night before Cowboy Ned's birthday, his horse Andy goes in search of a birthday cake, which he thinks will make Ned's birthday complete. It's Cowboy Ned's birthday! His trusty dapple gray steed, Andy, knows that the best thing to have on your birthday is a birthday cake. While Cowboy Ned sleeps soundly, Andy wanders across the desert in search of a birthday surprise for his friend and along the way discovers...

While visiting a western ranch, Clarence the pig plays cards, line dances, plays the washtub in a cowboy band, and reads stories at bedtime with his new friend Smoky the purple horse.

An "old buckaroo" tells how he became a cowboy, what the work was like in the past, and how this life has changed.

McDuff the little white dog that nobody seems to want finds just the right home--and a name.

"Simple text and full color photography introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of the dog breed West Highland White Terriers. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

Explains and illustrates the equipment, work, and lifestyle of cowboys and cowgirls in the Old West.

Provides brief descriptions of eight types of dinosaurs that lived in what is now the midwestern part of North America, and speculates on what caused dinosaurs to become extinct.

The true story of Lenore, a dog who made friends with a ram named Brutus.