For use in schools and libraries only. A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.

Maurice Sendak greeted the publication of the first book by this unique author-and-artist team with an astonishing review in The New York Times Book Review, which began: "Sid and Sol is a wonder--a picture book that heralds a hopeful, healthy flicker of life in what is becoming a creatively exhausted genre. The magic rests in teh seamless bond of Arthur Yorinks's and Richard Egielski's deft and exciting collaboration." Sendak concluded his review with an enthusiastic "Welcom, Mr. Yorinks and Mr. Egielski!" Now Louis the Fish, their second picture book, not only fulfills the promise of the first, but amply surpasses it. Louis is a butcher. He has a nice shop on Flatbush, with steady customers. He's "always friendly, always helpful, a wonderful guy." But Louis is not happy. He hates meat! All his life he's been surrounded by meat. His grandfather was a butcher. His father was a butcher. His whole childhood, even his birthdays, revolved aournd meat. As a boy he tried anythign to escape--even a job after school cleaning fishtanks. But that doesn't last long. Louis soon has to take over his parents' butcher shop. He grows ill. Business begins to fail. All seems lost. Until on night, in fitful sleep, after uneasy dreams, Louis is changed in a profound and startling way and begins a happy new life.

Milton and Morris--two orphaned immigrant brothers in New York--brave their way in the New World, taking jobs as trapeze artists, fruit peddlers, and tailors, and discover life's bitter realities.

While watching a house for five menacing moths, Jaz, an industrious young bug, teaches himself how to transform into various other things and then must use this talent to save himself.

A comical, easy, breezy book filled with stories of childhood adventures, tenacious teenage tasks and adulthood mishaps. Author A. L. Elder, invites you to take a journey through thirty-seven years of laughter and life lessons learned. Her favorite chapters include: Gilded Gelding, He Married a Stalker, Hey Lady and The Wrong Funeral. Are looking for a book full of antics that will cause a giggle to escape your lips? Go ahead, and grab: Hey Lady ... are these your underwear?

At bedtime a young boy takes a trip on his toy train and rescues several endangered animals. Suggested level: junior, primary.

When Penguin gets pooped on by a goose flying by, he and his other flightless bird friends invent a flying machine to give them the bird's eye view they never had, in a hilarious and heartwarming story that shows all things are possible.