Valeri Gorbachev

A girl tells her younger brother all of the rules he must follow in order to befriend a dragon.

After hearing a bedtime story about penguins, Turtle dresses as a penguin for school and soon the entire class is having a penguin day.

Little Hippo cannot wait to grow up and complains that all the other animals are bigger than him, until he helps a small beetle and feels better about himself.

When Christopher Rabbit learns to count in school, he enjoys it so much that he counts everything in sight, including how many baskets his friends make when they play basketball and how many peas and carrots are on his plate.

"Sister Duck and Brother Duck are lost, so all of the animals use their biggest hoots, bellows, howls, and growls to summon Mama and Papa"--

When Goat finds his friend Pig crying, he imagines all the terrible things that might have happened to cause his distress.

Doctor Nice spends a busy morning helping his patients with various winter ailments, including Moose, who caught cold after falling through the ice, and the goat kids, who have headaches from head-butting while playing hockey.

When Pig plans a trip, his friend Goat thinks of how dangerous it could be.

"A brand new picture book from beloved author illustrator Valeri Gorbachev. Turkey is bored! She can't find anyone to be friends with on the farm-hen is too busy with her chicks, rooster crows too loud, and who could be friends with goat who has a beard and horns? But when Turkey ventures off the farm to find a friend, she meets someone who would love to be her companion: sly, hungry fox. Will her farm friends save her? Valeri Gorbachev's indelible...

Ms. Turtle babysits for three little frogs when their parents go out for the evening.