Michael Foreman

"Will fire imaginations and elicit the heart-pumping, wide-eyed response that has kept this tale alive and vigorous through the ages." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
Long ago a Scandinavian warrior fought three evils so powerful they threatened whole kingdoms. Standing head and shoulders above his comrades, Beowulf single-handedly saved the land of the Danes from a merciless ogre named Grendel

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The littlest dinosaur thinks he is too small to do much of anything, until his family and neighbors are in trouble and need his help.

"Little Bear doesn't want to go to sleep, so he tries everything he can think of to distract his father. In the end it's an exhausted dad who falls asleep"-- Provided by publisher.

A small cat reminisces about events that took place around the manger where it was sleeping on the night the baby Jesus was born.

A mother bear and her child invite all the animals they meet to come with them to see the world.

"As a boy, Henry Friston dreamed of traveling the world. He thought he was signing up for a lifetime of adventure when he joined the Royal Navy. But when World War I begins, it launches the world, and Henry, into turmoil. While facing enemy fire at Gallipoli, Henry discovers the strength he needs to survive in an unexpected source: a tortoise. And so begins the friendship of a lifetime. Based on true events, and with charming illustrations, this story...

Adam, an immigrant boy in a big city, is lonely until he see snow for the first time and starts to play with the neighborhood children, but when he starts school he gets some seeds and begins to plant them with help from his new friends.

Relates the chain of events as one young boy and a dog unwittingly unleash havoc on the queen's birthday celebration.

Living in ruin and rubble with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child, a boy's tiny, green plant shoot gives him hope in a bleak landscape.