Marc Simont

A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.

A goose drops away from the flock during migration and settles in at a farm, where life seems very pleasant for awhile until she finds out just why the farmer keeps geese.

As more and more of his flowers display the bite marks of a wandering tortoise, Nate sets out to uncover the mystery of the reptile's origins.

Briefly describes the value of a tree.

In four separate stories, Ant's older brother gets rid of the monster under Ant's bed, forgives Ant for drawing on his homework, tries to read a story, and helps Ant writes a letter to Santa.

Nate the Great takes on his first night case and tries to solve the mystery of the garbage snatcher. Includes related facts, jokes, recipes, and activities.

Ant and his brother play a game, discuss growing up, hear a scary noise, and learn to be friends.

In a cold, gloomy castle where all the clocks have stopped, a wicked Duke amuses himself by finding new and fiendish ways of rejecting the suitors for his niece, the good and beautiful Princess Saralinda.

"The Earth Day Fair is days away, but Nate's classroom project--a robot named Mr. Butler--has disappeared. Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, take on the unusual case, and they are soon searching high and low in and around the school. Will Nate find therobot in time for the fair?"--

In the middle of winter, different forest animals awake and run sniffing through the trees, to discover a single flower growing in the snow.