Lisa Wheeler

Look around and you will see all the things a hug can be. Snug like a flower bud or safe like a shell, a hug can feel like home.

"People don't bite people. / It's nasty and it's rude! / A friend will never bite a friend. / Biting is for food!" Illustrations and rhyming text urge children to use their teeth for biting food, not their friends or relatives.

Santa Claus is missing, and a host of arctic animals searches for him in the snow.

The meat-eating dinosaurs challenge the plant-eating dinosaurs to a hockey match.

For children that are simply too naughty for Mother Goose to handle, her sister Spinster Goose knows just how to deal with these uncouth urchins. Fans of Mother Goose are sure to delight in these devilishly twisted alternatives to classic rhymes.

A tender story that shows where different animals slumber with their young, while humorously illustrating how human babies aren't as choosy.

Old Cricket doesn't feel like helping his wife and neighbors to prepare for winter and so he pretends to have all sorts of ailments that require the doctor's care, but hungry Old Crow has other ideas.

When the Yoohoos of northern Michisota are caught in an avalanche on Mt. Himalachia, little Annie Halfpint saves the day and earns a new nickname.

After a variety of animals get stuck one by one in bubble gum melting in the road, they must survive encounters with a big blue truck and a burly black bear.

Mouse and Mole feel afraid one dark night crossing a mush-mucky swamp and a marsh-misty wood.