Best friends Etho and Birt love going up Sudden Hill and sitting in simple cardboard boxes imagining they are kings, soldiers, astronauts, or pirates until Shu asks to join them, and their "two-by-two rhythm" is disturbed.

Through minimal text and cut-paper illustrations, shows the many things a boy can enjoy while inside his house, then outside, then in again. Includes a list of the author's favorite owls.

When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

A reader that introduces verbs such as "fish," "play," and "slide."

A little boy who loves pushing buttons of all kinds ends up with such a sore finger that he must play with other things.

A mother wakes up her child whose job is to play, as there is so much to do in a fun-filled day, from dancing in puddles to jumping in leaves.

Saturdays are dress-up days when Eleanor Sue climbs out the window ... tiptoes over to the front door ... and rings the doorbell. When her mother answers, she doesn't see Eleanor Sue. She sees a cranky old neighbor. Or a hungry witch. Or a white-bearded wizard. Eleanor Sue is a master of disguise, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen.--

Rhyming text follows a brother and sister as they go outside on a rainy day to play in the mud.

One morning, Michael decides that he wants to be someone different, so he plays dress-up and becomes a businessman, a knight, and a pirate, but at the end of the day he finally decides who his favorite Michael is.