Helen Oxenbury

A toddler investigates his world

A group of infants have fun together.

While waiting for his Grampa at a train station, Henry tells Charley, his beloved pup, about Grampa's long feet, loud snores, and how he does not know how to be friends with a dog.

A young boy imagines what life will be like when his new sibling arrives.

A little boy worries throughout the summer that he's not getting bigger, but at the end of the season he tries on his winter clothes and realizes that he has grown.

Rhyming text compares babies born in different places and in different circumstances, but they all share the commonality of ten little fingers and ten little toes.

Jack, Zack, and Caspar build a castle fort, then spend a day fighting dragons and beasts, but at day's end giants carry away first Sir Zack, then Caspar, and King Jack is left to face night creatures alone.

When brave mariners Jack, Zack and Caspar build a galleon then set off on an imaginary adventure at sea, they face pirates, a storm, and a shipwreck.

Miles the dog is growing older, but adventure still awaits when he takes to the skies.