Arcadia Public Library

In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.

"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school--but no one knows it. Most people--her teachers and doctors included--don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak...

All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully, but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big enough to protect him, it can also talk.

A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.

A sad princess is made happy again by a humble, word-loving bird.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Doctor Dolittle" during which the physician-turned-veterinarian is caught in a storm and shipwrecked while trying to bring the circus crocodile home to Africa.

Raymond and Yolande live in Troekan, where people are happy it rains every day and try different ways of bringing the rain back when it suddenly stops.

Whenever thoughts pop into Louis's head, he can't control his mouth, and he ends up interrupting everybody.

A child seeks a way to communicate with parents and a brother who are busy with their electronic devices.

The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.