Lane Smith

A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.

"A perfect day means different things to different animals in Bert's backyard"--

Simple text follows a young boy and the many animals he meets on his adventure through the jungle.

When a schoolgirl gets separated from her tour of the White House and finds herself in the Lincoln bedroom, she also discovers the ghost of the great man himself.

Told in rhyme, a little boy, tucked into his bed, thinks of all the wonderful and ordinary things he will see and do tomorrow.

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

A little boy sits in the corner of his classroom dreaming about his big plans for his future.

The Toad brothers are wreaking havoc in Drywater Gulch when a boy with no experience but immense knowledge of dinosaurs rides into town on his tortoise and declares himself the new sheriff.

A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school againches

Gappers will get your goat. Literally. If you don't brush them off and return them to the ocean, whence they arrive every day, these bright orange, many-eyed creatures will cover your goats, and the goats will stop giving milk.