A typically wonderful Oxenbury family sets out with gusto on a bear hunt, and the old story comes to life. Rosen's retelling is spare, with a driving rhythm, and some new sounds add sparkle to the traditional tale.

Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.

In preparation for Halloween night, a family visits Mr. Comstock's farm to pick apples and pumpkins.

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.