Tomie De Paola

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

Staying behind when their circus moves on, a young clown and a troupe of baby animals put on a special Christmas Eve show for an Italian village too poor to celebrate the holiday.

A knight who has never fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced dragon prepare to meet each other in battle.

Bill the crocodile and his toothbrush, Pete the plover, set out to save Bill's cousin, who has been captured along with other endangered animals and taken from Egypt to Bad Guy's Big Bad Brother's Exotic Animal Farm near New Orleans, Louisiana.

Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there much more regimented.

Bossy Moffie and her quiet twin brother Morgie both enjoy starting school, especially getting gold stars and making new friends.

The inhabitants of a New England village never make much fuss about Christmas until a new family moves in and celebrates the holiday in a special way.

Little William Everett Crocodile and his friend Pete take a class trip to a Cairo museum where they encounter a jewel thief.