Mercer Mayer

All the many things a young child can do independently are demonstrated, (tying shoes, riding bike, kicking ball), but there is one thing a child cannot do alone.

Little Critter does his enthusiastic best to help his babysitter, although his efforts frequently make a bad situation worse.

The alligator under his bed makes a boy's bedtime a hazardous operation, until he lures it out of the house and into the garage.

This simple story shows our preschool hero resisting his father's efforts to get him ready for bed. By the end of the book Little Critter's understanding father has finally succeeded in moving his energetic, imaginative son through bath-time and pajama-time into sleep-time.

A collection of 7 stories about the environment and the joy that can be found in nature.

A visit to a cousin's house turns out not to be so bad after all.