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Title	Author	Description
The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby Silver Nutmeg	Palmer Brown Brown	The Silver Nutmeg continues the adventures begun in Beyond the Pawpaw Trees, and features loads of sense, a little nonsense, and more delightful verses from Anna Lavinia’s beloved Songs from Nowhere. Best of all, fans of Palmer Brown’s intricate drawings will find every page a delight for the eyes.
Taka-chan and I: A Dog's Journey to Japan by Runcible Taka-chan and I	Betty Jean Lifton Lifton	Runcible the Weimeraner digs a hole from Cape Cod to Japan, where he discovers Taka-chan, a little girl imprisoned by a sea dragon. Runcible will do anything to free his new friend the two head to Toyko, there to answer the dragon’s challenge to find the most loyal creature in all the land. Contributors: Eikoh Hosoe
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia Beyond the Pawpaw Trees	Palmer Brown Brown	Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a book to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer Brown’s intricate, sugar-spun drawings.
The Rescuers Rescuers	Margery Sharp Sharp	The Mouse Prisoner's Aid Society, here headed up by Miss Bianca, a pampered white mouse and Nils, the bravest mouse in the land go on assignment to rescue a famous poet from a dreadful black castle, where he is being imprisoned by the cruel cat Mamelouke. This story, here illustrated by the great Garth Williams, was the inspiration for a Disney animated film of the same name. Contributors: Garth Williams
The Bear That Wasn't Bear That Wasn't	Frank Tashlin Tashlin	The perils of being a modern bear! One minute you're hibernating in the forest, the next you wake to find a factory built over your den. And when you try to explain yourself, the management laughs in your face, telling you to get back to work—and to get a shave. A sharp, comic parable from Tashlin, a legendary animator and screenwriter.
Ounce Dice Trice Ounce Dice Trice	Alastair Reid Reid	Ben Shahn illustrates this notebook of fabulous words: heavy words, squishy words, made up words, names for cats, whales, and houses. Says the author: "All the words here are meant to be said aloud, over and over, for your own delight." Contributors: Ben Shahn
Too Big Too Big	Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Aulaire	A silly story about a little tow-headed boy who's getting "TOO BIG" to do just about everything he's wants to do. Brightly colored and simply told, this picture book will appeal to preschoolers exploring the world around them.
The Terrible Troll-Bird Terrible Troll-Bird	Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Aulaire	One summer's eve Ola, Lina, Sina, and Trina leave their village to gather firewood in the forest, when they're surprised by the hideous call of the terrible troll-bird, a giant rooster who pops up out of the treetops and swoops down to devour their beloved horse Blakken. Little does the terrible troll-bird know that he has finally met his match: his terrible days of terrorizing are over.
D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls	Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire aulaire	D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, the spectacularly illustrated and delightfully entertaining companion volume to the much-acclaimed D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths.
The Hotel Cat Hotel Cat	Esther Averill Averill	One wintry day a lonely stray cat wandered into the Royal Hotel. He chased mice so well that he was given the job of Hotel Cat.