A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

A young Mexican American girl celebrates the paleta, an icy fruit popsicle, and the many roles it plays in her lively barrio.

Collects seven Richard Scarry stories.

Maisy and Charley visit their friend Dotty, who lives in a big city filled with noisy traffic, enormous buildings, and crowded sidewalks.

As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.

In a thought-provoking twist on the usual immigrant story, a village lad elects to stay put. Rather than heading off to the big city to become a boxer like Muhammad Ali, Jimmy stays in his small home village to keep up the small gym and build a library, helping to keep the closely knit community together.

Reveals many things a child might hear during the day, from the singing of birds at dawn to the soft sounds of sleep.

Kid and her family move to an apartment building in New York City, whose eccentric residents include a skateboarding fantasy writer, a guinea pig hoarder, and possibly a goat who lives on the roof.

An elephant in the rainforest is looking for a birthday adventure, and a pampered city kitty is getting bored with her luxe life; when the two connect over Lair-BNB, they discover the joys of new places and of finding your way back home.

A little girl and her dog find unexpected ways to spread the light in their dreary town where it always rains, showing that happiness is contagious.