Pat Hutchins

Although Ella and Emily look alike, their choices of food, games, and colors at a birthday party help the reader tell them apart.

Although unaware that a fox is after her as she takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead him into one accident after another.

A little boy goes grocery shopping for his mother and tries hard to remember her instructions.

A young girl describes her relationship to the various members of her family, including her stepfamily, as they all gather to celebrate her birthday.

In rhyming verses, one animal after another neighs, moos, oinks, quacks and makes other appropriate sounds as each eats an apple from the farmer's tree.

Rosie's chick is hatched and she is trying to find it, but the chick is following Rosie.

When it is time for bed, a little pink pig lags behind as his mother asks the horse, cow, sheep, and hens to help her find her child.

Hen, Duck, and Goose go on a picnic but have trouble deciding where to stop and eat.

A greedy pirate plunders one ship too many.

When Little Piglet, Little Lamb, Little Calf, and Little Foal take a walk across the fields after breakfast, they seem to lose their way as they try to head for home.