Lamar Public Library

When Petey the puppy decides that he wants a boy for Christmas, he discovers that he must go out and find one on his own.

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

Grandpa tells his two young houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was scared at bedtime.

Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.

By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.