Valeri Gorbachev

Nelly refuses to learn how to swim . . . until Grandma intervenes.
Nelly looks fabulous in her new swimsuit, so she wears it all the time—while riding her bike, playing basketball, eating at a fancy restaurant . . . even while sleeping.
But Nelly refuses to wear it for swimming. Grandma, a swimming champion, has other ideas. Finally Nelly, dipping one toe at a time, learns to float, blow bubbles, kick . . . and is on her way to becoming...

When someone's hat blows off in the wind, Turtle asks various animals if it belongs to one of them.

"A brand new picture book from beloved author illustrator Valeri Gorbachev. Turkey is bored! She can't find anyone to be friends with on the farm-hen is too busy with her chicks, rooster crows too loud, and who could be friends with goat who has a beard and horns? But when Turkey ventures off the farm to find a friend, she meets someone who would love to be her companion: sly, hungry fox. Will her farm friends save her? Valeri Gorbachev's indelible...

Doctor Nice spends a busy morning helping his patients with various winter ailments, including Moose, who caught cold after falling through the ice, and the goat kids, who have headaches from head-butting while playing hockey.

Turtle is so excited by the book about penguins that his dad reads him at bedtime that he decides he wants to be a penguin. So the next morning, he creates a penguin costume, grabs his book, and heads for the schoolbus. His kindergarten classmates are thrilled. They all want to be penguins too! Turtle shows his book to his teacher, and all day long he and his classmates do as the penguins do—they slide down the slide on their bellies...

When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.

Tired of being the smallest child in the family, Little Bunny discovers on Christmas Eve what it would be like to be even smaller.

Rufus Leroy Williams III wants to go to school to learn to read but the principal at first refuses because Rufus is a pig.