David Shannon

David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"

A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.

When David gets in trouble, he has excuses right up until bedtime, when he realizes he really is sorry.

Christmas has arrived with so many rules to follow that David fears his mistakes will cause Santa to pass him by.

A horrified boy discovers he has head lice and tries some wild remedies to get rid of them.

David follows his older brother around, annoying him and doing everything he can to make sure his brother notices him--but when David gets hurt playing, his brother is there to make sure he is okay.

In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being.

Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.

A father relates to his son the tale of his encounter--and friendship--with a gigantic trout whose enormous jaw is covered with so many lures and fish hooks that he jangles when he swims, but who has never been caught.

The familiar story of The 3 Little Pigs is retold from the wolf's point of view. The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. In "A duck on a bike" from Sheep to Horse to Chicken to Goat ... everyone in the barnyard has something to say about Duck's zany idea. But what are they really thinking? And what will happen next? In "Crictor", an affectionate and quick-thinking boa constrictor...