In trying to guess what special day it is, Mousekin mentions several popular holidays and the ways in which they are celebrated, before she finally realizes it is her birthday.

Mousekin's mommy reminds her it is a special day, but the little mouse cannot seem to figure out why.

A whitefoot mouse, searching for a new home on Christmas Eve, finds a peaceful and quiet place in a craeche.

The twilight search of a little mouse for a friend of his own kind.

Mouskin startles his friends and scares his enemies when he makes a discarded jack-o'-lantern his home.

Illustrations and simple rhymes go from one to ten and back again over the course of a baby's day.

When four orphan mice ask for shelter at the home of grumpy Sliver and Slice on a cold winter evening, the bad-tempered older mice finally learn to soften their hearts. Full-color illustrations.

Mousekin and his forest friends struggle to survive the winter together with a wild turkey.

At Penelope Pig's sleepover party, six pigs in pj's eat pizza and pasta, pound a pinata, pin the tail on the pony, prance to piano, and then form a precarious pyramid--collapsing, of course, into a sqealing pig pile! Maggie Smith combines rollicking rhymes and infectious alliterations to make a perfectly pleasing book filled with fun and the letter P. And while there are scads of P words in the text, the art has even more--the pictures are filled with more than 75 objects beginning with the letter P for young readers to find. The playful pictures also introduce other preschool concepts, such as colors, shapes, patterns, and counting. Pigs in Pajamas offers a fun way to get preschoolers thinking about language and building their vocabularies. Party on, Penelope Pig!

It's the night before preschool, and a little boy named Billy is so nervous he can't fall asleep. The friends he makes the next day at school give him a reason not to sleep the next night, either: he's too excited about going back! The book's simple rhyming text and sweet illustrations will soothe any child's fears about the first day of school.