Larry Robinson

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.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

When he discovers a bear with a toothache outside his window, a little boy tries to think of ways of removing the tooth.

It is when the fix-it man is trying to repair the television and her parents are trying to entertain her that Emma becomes so interested in reading, she no longer cares about TV.

A little boy goes grocery shopping for his mother and tries hard to remember her instructions.

A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of animals until he meets a clever fox.

Rebecca Estelle, an old woman who has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl and her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a full crop of them.

The beautiful, rhythmic sound of rain on Momo's umbrella underscores this lovely Caldecott Honor Book about a young girl who waits impatiently for the rain to fall so that she can use the new umbrella she received for her third birthday.