Tish Rabe

When a speedy train challenges Huff and Puff to a race, the caboose and engine must find out it slow and steady can win the race.

Hide-and-seek is a great game, but Nick always finds where Sally is hiding. And "that's" no fun! Enter the Cat in the Hat. His friend Gecko is an expert at hiding. Maybe Gecko can share some tips with the kids?

Sally and Nick accompany the Cat in the Hat while he visits with a duck, a lemur, a gecko, and other creatures to learn about how their feet help animals survive.

Rhyming text and illustrations depict the Cat in the Hat and his friends exploring the many different kinds of insects, their characteristics, and behavior.

The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who bake a Christmas surprise.

Sally and Nick are playing in the rain and getting really muddy! So when the Cat in the Hat offers to show them how animals get clean, the kids are keen to find out. But can Sally and Nick really get rid of the mud by taking dust baths, like a sparrow? Or by licking themselves, like a lion? And where are they going to find an oxpecker to pick it off them, like a hippo has? (Besides, oxpeckers tickle!) Maybe there's a better way for a kid to get clean?...

"On the first day of first grade I had fun right away... Count twelve fun-filled firsts of first grade!" --cover p. 4

Rhyming text explains the nature and habits of butterflies.

"The Cat in the Hat learns all about cats--wild and domestic--in this feline-focused Cat in the Hat's Learning Library book!"-- Provided by publisher.