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Challenged by the other jungle animals for its seemingly lazy ways, a sloth living in a tree explains the many advantages of his slow and peaceful existence.

After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.

An innocent squirrel accused of stealing nuts is forced down a hole in a tree, where he meets a friendly chipmunk.

"Did you know that sharks first appeared in the oceans 200 million years before the dinosaurs, and that they have an electrical sixth sense that helps them locate their prey? How dangerous is a great white shark? Can a whale shark really grow as big as a city bus? If you find yourself seeking the answers to these questions, then this may be the book for you! Discover where they live, why they are hunted, and what can be done to protect them. The book...

As darkness falls, parents everywhere try to get their children ready for sleep.

Forest animals, awakened by the birds' warning that there is a stranger in the woods, set out to discover if there is danger and find, instead, a wonderful surprise.

Tells a story about a mouse dentist who copes with the toothaches of various animals, except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.

Arthur puts a lot of time, effort, and thought into his special present for Santa Claus.

Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter

In simple text a set of animals, each one linked to the previous one by some trait of shape, color, or pattern, greet and interact with one another.