Fred Marcellino

Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.

A naive young writer and a world-weary detective delve into the pathetic pasts of the victims of a series of bizarre homicides in Venice, California.

After the death of the miller, the eldest receives the mill, the middle son gets the burro and the youngest gets only the cat. But the cat is a cunning one and wins for his master a castle, a fortune and the hand of a princess.

"Montague, an artistic young rat living beneath the streets of New York City, thinks he can do nothing to save his friends from extermination until he achieves a better understanding of both himself and his ne'er-do-well uncle"--Source other than Library of Congress.

The incomparable Fred Marcellino brings a decidedly droll vision to three of Edward Lear s classic tales in this three-in-one collection.

Harry, the dirty dog. When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots. I, crocodile. An Egyptian crocodile, with a big ego and a big appetite, is taken to Paris in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte. How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions? Norman, the doorman of a mouse hole in an art museum, uses his own art talent and...

The perilous adventure of a toy soldier who loves a paper dancing girl culminates in tragedy for both of them.

Giraffes can't dance: Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music. That new animal: The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house. I, Crocodile: When a Nile crocodile is brought back to Paris by the Emperor Napoleon, it must not only struggle to get enough to eat, but escape from being eaten, too! Ivan, the remarkable true story of the shopping...