Arcadia Public Library

The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.

Lotta gives the Easter Bunny a helping hand when all the candy stores close early.

Three little Swedish sisters bake two cakes for their mother's birthday surprise, one a burned catastrophe, but the second a golden success.

Tommy and Annika are fascinated by their new neighbor, an unusual little girl who lives all alone with her horse and monkey, performs her own act at the circus, bakes cookies on the floor, and is stronger than anyone in the world.

When their aunt and uncle's cat disappears while they are supposed to be taking care of it, three young sisters frantically look for it and get quite a surprise.

Anna and Matthew, two poor siblings who have known only hunger, cold, and hard labor since their mother died, follow a bright red bird to a land of happiness.

"The adventures of prankster Emil, whose exploits include stranding his little sister at the top of a flagpole, disappearing from a locked woodshed, and getting his head stuck in a soup pot - twice"--cataloger's summary.