Robert Lawson

New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. The small creatures of a Connecticut countryside-each with a distinct personality-create a warm and humorous story. Although they are happy that a new family is moving into the empty farmhouse, the animals on Rabbit Hill fear the newcomers may bring traps and guns.

Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.

Relates the story of the author's grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States.

Banjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries.

The hard winter that Analdes, the old rabbit, prophesis comes to pass in more ways than one for the dwellers of Rabbit Hill when the "folk" go away and leave a neglectful caretaker with a mean dog in charge.

"Ferdinand is a giant bull with a big heart. After being mistaken for a dangerous beast and torn from his home, he rallies a misfit team for an epic adventure in order to return to his family"--Container.

A gentle bull who likes to sit quietly and smell flowers is entered in a bullfight.

The Little Woman loves living in the big city despite all of the noise, so when she is given a peaceful farm in the country and finds it too quiet to be relaxing, she sets out to make it feel like home.