A little bunny bids goodnight to all the objects in his room before falling asleep. This fiftieth anniversary edition includes an illustrated essay about the author and how the book came to be written, illustrated, and published.

"Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...

A collection of stories, poems, and non-fiction for beginning readers, by such authors as Nancy Shaw, Else Minarik, and Arnold Lobel; by such poets as John Ciardi, Russell Hoban, and Robert Louis Stevenson; and illustrated by such artists as Margot Apple, Maurice Sendak, and Giulio Maestro.

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales--in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical powers--have been told through the centuries, in many languages and cultures, from classical times to today.

Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, collaborates with a boy in the library's Authors and Illustrators Club.