Mary Ann Hoberman

This book uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Eight short fairy tales fit on one spread and feature the characters and stories that children love best. With clear, color-coded typography and amusing illustrations, this collection is sure to entertain while encouraging reading skills and interaction with others. The fractured fairy tales...

A collection of short retellings of Aesop's fables, each told in two voices designed especially for young children and adults to read together.

Lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things.

Seven fussy eaters find a way to surprise their mother.

Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.

Mr. and Mrs. Muddle, a horse couple, have to learn to compromise on the one thing they don't agree on.

An illustrated collection of poems about all sorts of subjects, including "Wishes," "Ducks," "When I Need a Real Baby," and "Growing."

A special quilt keeps a little girl from feeling homesick when she sleeps over with her grandparents.

Oliver Tolliver, who lives alone in his little house with just one of everything, discovers that it is more fun to have two of everything and share with a friend.

An expanded adaptation of the familiar hand-clapping rhyme about a young girl and an elephant. Includes music and directions for the hand-clapping actions.