Jacques Cousteau was the world’s ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people’s living rooms. From the first moment he got a glimpse of what lived under the ocean’s waves, Cousteau was hooked. And so he set sail aboard the Calypso to see the sea. He and his team of scientists invented diving equipment and waterproof cameras. They made films and televisions shows and wrote books so they...

From the mighty Zeus, King of the Gods, to the beautiful Aphrodite, Goddess of Love & Beauty, the timeless tales in this stunning volume will delight and enchant readers again and again.

Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the different ways dinosaurs can express their love, from cleaning up after making a mess to smiling sweetly instead of roaring.

The letter Z passes twenty-two characters on the way home plus an Alien, a Bridge, and a Cake.

When Will finds a bird with a broken wing, he takes it home and cares for it, hoping in time it will be able to return to the sky.

When Ellery reads her younger brother a scary book about pirates, Max finds an appropriate way to make her close the book.

Presents the story of an enormous, insatiable, and short-tempered Ogre, who terrorizes the countryside and dines on hapless townspeople before encountering a friendly young lady who uses innovative methods to stop him.

The curiosity of a newly-captured monkey gets him into continuous trouble, but he is saved by his friend, the man in the yellow hat.

A collection of quotations from a variety of authors whose inspirational words find further expression in the joyful watercolors which accompany the text.

When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he is lonely, they bring him a very special friend.