Dan Andreasen

The traditional English carol, "The 12 Days of Christmas," has been sung and enjoyed throughout the holiday season for centuries. In keeping with its courtly tone, most illustrated treatments of the song use a formal art style. Now, a new version is geared specifically to young readers, using playful images of animals romping and cavorting to the song's lyrics. Imagine beret-wearing French hens, four "calling" birds chatting on the phone or frolicking...

Sam the cat joins his friends Hap and Max in playing with a bag.

A boy takes a train trip to visit his grandmother.

In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.

When six-year-old Sandra rides her horse, Chico, to see the newborn calf on her father's ranch, she encounters a rattlesnake and depends on Chico to get them back safely.

Kim visits Grandma in the spring to help her plant her garden.

Toy dogs go on air patrols to make sure that none of the other toys in a child's room go missing.

Recounts the life story of the author of the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text depict the journey of a family from London to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635.

When her friend Nellie, the servant girl from next door, does not show up for ice skating as usual, Samantha is afraid that Nellie will not come to her party because she cannot afford to bring presents. Includes a section on ice skating in the early 1900s.