Arcadia Public Library

The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.

Spiritual, scenic and family inspired illustrations tell the tale of the folk song's message, capturing a young child and his family as they go about their daily life and engage in the world around them.

Presents a collection of thirteen animal fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.

While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.

The familiar story of The Three Little Pigs is retold from the wolf's point of view. The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. In "Doobie doobie moo", when Duck finds out about a talent show at the county fair, he and the other animals start rehearsing. Duck is determined they will enter the contest and win. "Bark, George" is the amusing story of a mother dog trying to teach her...

Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid, Roy, and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?

At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members. Maze of bones is the first in a series of 10 books. The publisher offers an online game as well.

Thumbelina: a tiny baby girl is snatched from her adopted family by an ugly toad but escapes to find happiness with the king of the flower angels. The talking eggs: The story of Ruby Rouge, her mysterious friend Conjure Woman and two baskets of talking eggs with very different yolks. The fisherman and his wife: When a simple fisherman catches a magical fish, his wife's constant outlandish wishes causes them to lose everything. The Emperor and the...