Frank Carlson Library

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...

A story about a little rabbit who cures a lion of the insatiable hunger which keeps him scrawny.

One night, a puppy, who is always late coming home, finds there is no dessert for him.

Little Critter feels so frustrated that he thinks of running away.

A child imagines all the things to be done when one is bigger.

A shy, striped kitten explores the farm with a mole and a puppy and goes on a picnic with the other animals.

When the alarm sounds at the fire house, the firemen jump onto the hose car and, with the chief leading the way, rush to the scene of the fire.

A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother, but something always seems to go wrong.

Grover worries page by page about meeting the monster at the end of this book.