Burlington Public Library

Acclaimed non-fiction author David Sedaris presents a collection of animal-themed essays.

"What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display....

Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.

Tall tales, Indian legends, ghost stories, and stories from around the world.

Duck on a bike : A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too. Knuffle Bunny too : This is the story of how Trixie loses her beloved bunny and gains him back, along with something new: her very first best friend. The caterpillar and the polliwog : Impressed by the caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar carefully,...

The creature of the pines: Elliot Eisner isn't exactly excited about starting at a brand-new school in a brand-new town; he'd much rather stay at home and read a book. But things take an unexpected turn when he finds out his weird new teacher, Professor Fauna, has planned a field trip for Elliot's very first day. Along with a new friend--brave, outspoken Uchenna Devereaux--Elliot gets caught up in a secret group of adventurers, The Unicorn Rescue...

In Curious George Rides a Bike, George the monkey goes riding on his new bicycle and runs into unexpected adventure. In Doctor De Soto, a hungry fox with a toothache begs a mouse dentist to relieve his pain in this modern day fable. In The Biggest Bear, Johnny hunts for the biggest bear in the forest, but comes home with a little bear -- that grows and grows and grows. In Blueberries for Sal, a little girl and a little bear, picking blueberries...

You know Splat the Cat from his bestselling picture books and phonics fun in Level One readers. Now get ready to graduate with Splat into Level Two readers! This all-new I Can Read features splat-tastic inventions as Splat tries his paw at a new job-newspaper cat. Splat is so excited to be the new newspaper cat! But getting up super early, keeping track of all those papers, and delivering to all those houses sure isn't as easy as it looks. With...

Since their first publication over eighty years ago, Alison Uttley's stories have become classics of children's literature. Enjoy six adventures on this special audio collection.

From three of Jack Prelutsky's books, a collection of silly poems about the trials of school and the adventures of a variety of fantastic creatures that are combinations of animals, objects, and plants.