Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

While playing outside on a rainy day, a little girl peers into a puddle and sees Mudkin, who invites her to become his queen.

It is fun to make friends and play with others, but it is not always easy to do. You have to make an effort, and you have to know the rules, like ask before joining in, take turns, play fair, and be a good sport. In simple words and real life illustrations, this book teaches the basics of cooperation, getting along, making friends, and being a friend. Includes a special section for adults, with discussion questions to share, "joining in" games to...

Best friends Etho and Birt love going up Sudden Hill and sitting in simple cardboard boxes imagining they are kings, soldiers, astronauts, or pirates until Shu asks to join them, and their "two-by-two rhythm" is disturbed.

Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead.

"An adaptation of the action words vocabulary from David McPhail's My Mother Goose"--

When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

Simple text about playing and repetition of the letter "a" help readers learn how to use the "long a" sound.

A collection of reissued stories with simple vocabulary featuring Dick, Jane, and other familiar characters.