Grade: 1

Our second Dick and Jane treasury is here! The World of Dick and Jane and Friends is acompilation of some of the best-loved Dick and Jane titles. The treasury includes stories parents and grandparents will remember from Guess Who, The New We Come and Go, and The New We Look and See. Share a classic treasury with a new generation of Dick and Jane readers, who will love the Dick and Jane stories as much as you did!

This picture book is a lively vocabulary stretcher. Van Allsburg presents the alphabet as a 26-act play. Each letter is one act, one image: “Act 1: The A was in an avalanche.” “Act II: The B was badly bitten.” First you see the image and then you turn the page to read the clever twist on each black-and-white letter.

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggies cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In There Is a Bird on Your Head! Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head — two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?

There’s a Wocket in My Pocket is filled with bizarre creatures and rhymes: the nupboard in the cupboard, ghairs beneath the stairs, and the bofa on the sofa!

“There’s a lemur in my lunch box
My banana’s just a peel,
And my candy bar’s a wrapper
This is not a happy meal.”

Fish tanks in classrooms and a hamster or two aren’t unusual. But when Miss Darling’s students ask for a pet, they get one, in poetry form, for every letter in the alphabet.

The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good is told in verses which march in double-quick time. The pictures are scenes of happy confusion.

Sarah’s Russian grandmother, Catherine, immigrated to America a long time ago with two suitcases and not a word of English. When she insists on no gifts for her next birthday, her guests begin planning the perfect “no presents” to give “Catherine the Great.” At the party, one guest performs a song, another does a dance, and still another styles her hair. But Sarah gives her a “no gift” from the heart when she offers to teach her English.

In this hilarious touch-and-feel book, a cranky duck dares children to tickle his soft stomach, his hairy armpit, his rubbery foot, and reacts uproariously each time. Despite his protests, does the duck really like being tickled after all? This modern day version of Pat the Bunny will have its audience laughing, and maybe even snorting, “Do it again!” Like Ten Little Lady Bugs and Tails, this treasure of interactive fun is sure to engage parents and children for hours of tickling and giggling.