Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and badlands of Hokey Pokey."

Five-year-old Birdie loves her mother's shoes, but when she is finally granted permission to wear some for a little while, she discovers that her "barefoot shoes" are best of all.

“Parker pretty much defies category altogether in this deeply felt and intimately told memory tale, which takes place during the historic baseball season of 1947...Fusing this chapter of sports history with a hard-boiled gangster plot and haunting recollections of his own Boston boyhood, Parker fashions a hugely entertaining fiction.”—The New York Times
1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball’s color...

Short, simple sentences describe the antics of a family of monkeys.

A little girl wants to build a snowman with her brother but he is too busy sledding to help, so she tells her Bitty Baby doll a story about Bitty Baby and a polar bear learning to play together and discovering what they are able to do.

Rhyming text and illustrations present some of the ways dinosaurs can play with their friends, from hogging the swings to sharing toys.

Ten little piggies dance on a young child's fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.

Barcelona Smith is too cautious even to smile for fear of getting a bug in his teeth, until the day his usually perfectly coiffed locks rebel and teach him to let his hair down.

After playing actively all day two friends learn something when they try to do nothing at all.