Rosemary Wells

Despite his sister Ruby's admonitions, Max waits up on Christmas Eve to see Santa Claus coming down the chimney.

Max and his sister Ruby go on an egg hunt and vie with each other for the prize, a chocolate chicken. It's springtime for the unflappable young rabbit and his overbearing big sister. Max can hardly wait to gobble up the chocolate chicken someone left on his birdbath, and Ruby wants to plan an egg hunt. Max does his best to play along, but when Ruby finds all the eggs, and he finds only ants and acorns, he shows her what can happen when you put all...

Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.

Illustrated nursery rhymes highlight words for parts of speech, actions, colors, numbers, opposites, greetings, and more. Includes a note from the author.

Max and Ruby spend so much on emergencies while shopping for Grandma's birthday presents, that they just barely have enough money left for gifts.

When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.

Ruby and her friend Louise set up a lemonade stand to earn money to buy matching rings, but Max foils their plan.

McDuff enjoys reading the paper with Fred and taking walks in the woods with Lucy, but all that changes when they bring a new baby home.

Everyone in Morris's family is pleased with his Christmas present except Morris.

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