Little Mouse's Birthday Cake

Disappointed that his friends seem to have forgotten his birthday, Little Mouse goes skiing by himself

Children's Books

Hurd, Thacher

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Harpercollins

Saxophone-playing Miles and his Swamp Band find a bevy of sharp-toothed, long-tailed alligators who love to listen to their music. But little do Miles and his band know what the alligators plan for them at the close of their jubilant all-night ball! Inspired by a traditional song, this vibrant picture book is "ebullient, fast-paced, and funny." 1985 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Illustration A Reading Rainbow Featured Selection Children's Books of 1984 (Library of Congress)

Mama Don't Allow

Animals

A lonely cat meets a new friend in a traffic jam.

Axle the freeway cat

Harper&Row

Axle the Freeway Cat

Ralph, a short order cook, rescues a kidnapped opera singer from Big Al and his gang of nasty rats.

Mystery on the Docks

HarperTrophy

Mystery on the Docks (Reading Rainbow Book)

HARPER/COLLINS

Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, more powerful than a locomotive -- well, that's Superman for you. But now there's Art Dog -- a new superhero on the block -- and he's fighting crime with a paintbrush and an unstoppable creative might. 
 Just as Superman and Batman lead quiet lives during the day as Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne, Art Dog spends his days as Arthur Dog, a mild-mannered guard at the Dogopolis Museum of Art. But under the light of a full moon, he undergoes a transformation into a creative force to be reckoned with. Through a little creativity and an astounding nose for art he manages to sniff out and apprehend a band of thieves who have stolen the priceless Mona Woofa. 
 Highlighted with characteristically bright and bold illustrations, Thacher Hurd has created an action-packed story that offers a whimsical view of many artistic masterpieces. Littering the pages of Art Dog are canine interpretations of paintings such as Wood's American Gothic, Matisse's Dance of Life and Jazz, Vermeer's Girl with Turban, Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, da Vinci's Mona Lisa and others. Children will recognize some of the paintings and will delight in the dogs replacing their human counterparts. 
Oh, no! Someone has stolen the Mona Woofa from the Dogopolis Museum of Art and the police don't even realize that they are barking up the wrong tree when they collar their number one suspect. So it's up to Art Dog, the mysterious, masked painter who roams the streets of Dogopolis, to find the missing masterpiece. Zip! Splash! Smoosh! He paints himself a Brushmobile, and he's off––on a wild and funny chase to capture the dastardly crooks. With the same deft touches of high-spirited fun and adventure that have made Mystery on the Docks and Mama Don't Allow (both Reading Rainbow Featured Selections) such perennially popular stories, Thacher Hurd serves up a new action-packed tale that will delight young readers.
 1996 ‘Pick of the Lists' (ABA) Children's Choices for 1997 (IRA/CBC) 1998 Red Clover Book Award (VT) Oh, no! Someone has stolen the Mona Woofa from the Dogopolis Museum of Art and the police don't even realize that they are barking up the wrong tree when they collar their number one suspect. So it's up to Art Dog, the mysterious, masked painter who roams the streets of Dogopolis, to find the missing masterpiece. Zip! Splash! Smoosh! He paints himself a Brushmobile, and he's off––on a wild and funny chase to capture the dastardly crooks. With the same deft touches of high-spirited fun and adventure that have made Mystery on the Docks and Mama Don't Allow (both Reading Rainbow Featured Selections) such perennially popular stories, Thacher Hurd serves up a new action-packed tale that will delight young readers.
 1996 ‘Pick of the Lists' (ABA) Children's Choices for 1997 (IRA/CBC) 1998 Red Clover Book Award (VT)

Art Dog

Art Dog (1 Paperback/1 CD)

When the Mona Woofa is stolen from the Dogopolis Museum of Art, the mysterious masked painter Art Dog paints himself a Brushmobile and chases a dastardly crook throughout the streets of Dogopolis.

After several unsuccessful attempts to give his special valentine to someone, Little Mouse finally finds just the right recipient

Little Mouse's Big Valentine

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Little Mouse's Birthday Cake

Little Mouse's Birthday Cake

Mama Don't Allow

Axle the freeway cat

Axle the Freeway Cat

Mystery on the Docks

Mystery on the Docks (Reading Rainbow Book)

Art Dog

Art Dog

Little Mouse's Big Valentine