John Burningham

Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.

A young boy is curious about what life will be like when the new baby arrives.

Mr. Gumpy's human and animal friends squash into his old car and go for a drive -- until it starts to rain.

Every night Marie-Elaine's cat, Malcolm, goes out, and every morning he comes back in and sleeps. "Where do cats go at night?" the girl wonders. So when she sees him at his cat door dressed to the nines, she begs to come along. And amazingly, Malcolm agrees, as long as she puts on her fancy clothes, gets small, and keeps it all a secret. With a whimsical story and breathtaking artwork, the acclaimed John Burningham takes us on an exciting night's...

On discovering late Christmas Eve that he has forgotten to deliver one present, Santa Claus wearily makes his way in a variety of conveyances to the top of the Roly Poly Mountains to deliver it.

At bedtime a young boy takes a trip on his toy train and rescues several endangered animals.

"The Hargraves want their new baby to grow up big and strong. But the puny mite will hardly eat a thing. One day Mrs. Hargarves finds an avocado in the fruit bowl, and the baby gobbles it up. Soon, the strangest things start to happen ..."--P. [4] of cover.

Shirley's adventures at the beach are interspersed with familiar parental warnings.

While high in the mountains with his parents, Albert falls off a cliff and ends up in Cloudland, where he enjoys playing with the cloud children, but misses his parents.

A teacher regrets his decision to disbelieve a student's outlandish excuses for being tardy.