Arcadia Public Library

When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.

A Chinese American girl provides rhyming descriptions of the great variety of colors she sees around her, from the red of a dragon, firecrackers, and lychees to the brown of her teddy bear.

An abridgement of Dickens's beloved tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

The Bear Scouts are determined to solve the mystery of how Too-Tall and his gang beat them in a race through the river's rapids.

An ordinary housecat is seen from the different perspectives of a child and various animals.

A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.

The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides that he wants to be happy.

A real, wily dragon winds through streets in China, eluding the traps set by a group of children during the Chinese New Year celebration.

After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.

Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique and special--and that her superpower was right in front...