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Around the world each night, parents tell stories to children as they put them to bed. Margaret Read MacDonald - a folklorist, storyteller, and children's librarian - uses bedtime tales in the daytime to end her story hours on a calm note. Here, with accompaniment on dulcimer and autoharp by musician Richard Scholtz, she includes seven of her favorites from around the world.

This is a fairy tale about 12 forest creatures whose mates have disappeared after being crystallized by a mysterious dark dust. The forest creatures combine forces with Zac, the handsome woodcarver, Ana, his beautiful half-elf wife, and their timid, winged doth, Pook, to try to save themselves and restore the dying forest.

Mark is scared of the dark, but when he thinks his Great Gran is in trouble, nothing is going to stop him coming to her rescue.

Max is the hero of this beloved children's classic in which he makes mischief, sails away, tames the wild things, and returns home for supper.

Few words pack a lot of punch in this delightful story about bedtime rituals. There will be no pouting or shouting or moping or moaning when the lights go out because dinosaur kids everywhere will want to see this production again and again.

There's no such thing as monsters. Mother and Daddy even said so. But then why is there monster drool on Junie B.'s pillow? Oh, no! What if Paulie Allen Puffer is right: what if she really does have a monster under her bed? If Junie B. goes to sleep, the monster might see her feet hanging down. And he might think her piggy toes are yummy little wiener sausages!

Mary's little brother, Billy, seems perfectly normal, until one moonlit evening Mary finds him floating above his bed. From then on, whenever the full moon rises, Billy the Bird flies up, up and away and home again! In the second story, Jackson is a rabbit with a dream. He spends his days watching the tall sailing ships coming and longs to go to sea, too. So one day Jackson stows away on the Atalanta.

Children love to act out rhymes, and this delightful collection shows them how! This audio program features 40 songs, verses, and chants. Featuring Dave Townsend, Caroline Butler, Charles Spicer, and Paul Downes singing and playing guitar, banjo, concertina, whistle, fiddle, and oboe.

Drei kleine Schweinchen ziehen um, weit weit weg, in ein Dorf in der Nähe eines Kirschbaumwäldchens. Dort angekommen, will jedes Schweinchen sich ein eigenes Haus bauen. Aber nicht irgendein Haus...

Little Red Riding Hood is always happy to venture through the woods to visit grandma and bring her goodies. However, grandma is looking a little strange today. Could that wolf Red met on the path have anything to do with it?

"Do you like solving mysteries? I do! So when my sister, Thea, heard that there was a secret hidden in Mouse Island's most famouse painting, the Mona Mousa, I knew we had to crack the code! We began to investigate, and soon we were following a trail of clues that led us below the streets of New Mouse City. There we made the most fabumouse discovery."

Ever wonder where your dreams come from? Or what caused those 10 inches of rain last Tuesday? Or who picks the color of autumn leaves? Brecker Drane knows, because he knows about The Seems. And soon you will, too. The Seems is the world responsible for making our world work. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Time, The Seems keep everything running - just the way we like it.

Encourage the sharing of music, song, and rhyme with very young children using this beautiful new collection of over twenty lullabies. The book comes with a soothing music track featuring a gentle accompaniment for each lullaby and the combination of both old and new lullabies.

Rose loves watching videos and is sat in front of the telly all the time. So when the video player breaks, it's a total nightmare! But then a very mysterious repair man comes to fix it. He gives Rose the power to forward and rewind her life and then Rose sees what really happens to someone who spends all their time in front of the TV ...

After eating 21 of Mrs. Teaberry's delicious pineapple jelly rolls, Mr. Putter tries to calm his tummy on a nighttime walk with Tabby. As they gaze up at the stars, they are surprised to find they have company. Mrs. Teaberry and her dog Zeke are also out for a walk - and Zeke has a stomachache, too.

Mary Ann and Louie's fears are soothingly pacified by Grandpa's imaginative description of his own childhood fears at night, and by a bowl of ice cream.

With just one bite, a wakeful flea atop a pile of sleeping creatures causes a commotion.

Here is the delightful story of how a little boy was the only one in a crowd of worshippers who was honest enough to say that the emperor's "magic new clothes" were really no clothes at all.

An all-time favorite story of how a slave named Androcles, by plucking a thorn out of a lion's paw, saved his own life when he was thrown to the lions years later before thousands of cheering people in the Roman Coliseum.

Welcome to Absurdia: a strange and wonderful land where nothing is quite what it seems. Trees are birds, umbrellas are trees, and the sky is thick with snoring fish. Join one small boy as he tumbles out of bed into a crazy dreamland of wardrobe monsters, dragons - and amazing adventure. With a story to enchant the youngest reader, as well as music and sound effects that will make you giggle, whatever your age, this is an extraordinary achievement and one to savour.