Jackie Urbanovic

Maxwell Duck is trying to invent a soup that everyone will remember him for, but when he goes out to look for the missing ingredient and his friends show up, they think he has fallen into the soup.

In rhyming text reminiscent of the traditional song, "If you're happy and you know it, " presents various animals that are hoppy, sloppy, growly, flappy, or slimy, scaly and mean.

Lonely Platypus tries looking for animals to play with, but he cannot find where he belongs until he happens upon the seashore.

Grandma Lena believes that something worth doing is worth doing right. So she takes good care of the turnips she plants in her garden. One turnip grows to an enormous size—Baby Pearl thinks it's a big potato! It is big enough to feed half the town. And it's so big that Grandma can't pull it out of the ground! Even when Grandpa, Uncle Izzy, Aunt Netty, and the dog help Grandma yank and tug, the big ol' turnip doesn't budge. Still, this African-American

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