El pirata Gorgo

On summer break and avoiding his assigned reading list, Derek Fallon begins a mysterious adventure while trying to find clues to an incident in his past. After reading an old newspaper clipping about a teenage girl who drowned on Martha’s Vineyard while she was babysitting him, Derek—who was a toddler at the time and does not even recall the event—becomes a detective in search of answers. As summer and his investigation comes to a close, Derek soon realizes that he hasn't done the reading assignment his teacher gave him but that he has learned a valuable lesson: even though reading is...

A single mother explains to her son that his daddy left soon after he was born. Includes section with suggestions for answering the question, "Do I have a daddy?"

Hoy es el primer día en el que Susana se viste ella solita. Y tiene todo preparado, todo sale bien hasta que se da cuenta de que le falta su otro calcetín blanco... Susana, en su búsqueda por toda la habitación, encuentra calcetines de todos los colores y en cualquier sitio. Editado en español e inglés, incluye al final un glosario en el que se repasan los colores y los números aprendidos.

Collects books one through three--"The Bad Beginning," "The Reptile Room," and "The Wide Window"--of this extremely miserable but popular series.