Pig has been looking forward to a lovely peaceful bath all day. In come Sheep, Cow and Horse - they are very noisy! What can Pig do to make them go away?

This book is about friendship and the distinctions of living in different parts of the world. A giraffe that lives in Africa meets a pelican who is a mailman. Since the giraffe is bored, she sends a letter to the first animal the pelican can find on the other side of the horizon. The letter passes on to a seal who gives it to a penguin. He reads the letter and even though he does not understand it he writes back, and becomes the giraffe's pen pal....

Now that Professor Whale has retired, he writes many letters to "You, Whoever You Are, Who Lives on the Other Side of the Horizon". Seal and Pelican are busy delivering the letters and Penguin is now teaching. Although he is happy his friends are doing so well, Whale wants a special friend ; who might call him by a friendly sort of name. Like Whaley, maybe, instead of "Professor."

"It has been fifteen months since Eva and Angela lost their thrill-seeking husbands in a scuba diving accident. Both women are trying to navigate their way through the grief, but neither one is making much progress. Angela is barely making ends meet, angry at her husband for leaving her to raise three children on her own. Meanwhile, Eva is stuck, unable to move forward after losing the love of her life and her source of inspiration. But then Eva gets...

"Leilong's friends are taking him to story time at the library. But it's difficult for a large brontosaurus without a library card to follow all the rules. Especially when Leilong gets caught up in the story and joins in. Is Leilong too big for the library, or is the library too small?"--Back cover.

A woman walks between the worlds of the living and the dead in search of her lost children. Vincent Ward weaves drama with documentary to unravel the extraordinary story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman he filmed in 1978 for his early film In Spring One Plants Alone. He attempts to unravel the mystery that has haunted him for 30 years: Who was Puhi?

It all started on Dulcinea's birthday, when she wanted blueberries with her pancakes. Her father went into the forest near their house to pick the fruit, and he didn't come back! Even though she had promised never to go into the forest--where a witch lived, as everyone knew--Dulcinea was determined to find her father. So she went into the forbidden forest after him....

"Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black colour of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from the tiny town of Tuakau in New Zealand, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do so many other astonishing things?"--Publisher information. In picture book format.

On a visit to Don's Safari, the students in class 2B attempt to find a missing hippopotamus.

"A tiny woman makes a coat out of objects she finds in nature. "--Provided by publisher.