Describes the features, sounds, and role of each musical instrument in the orchestra. Have you ever met an orchestra? Well, here's your chance! Meet the rabbit with her flute, the koala cellist, the tuba-playing warthog, the alligator on the drums. This unusual introduction to the orchestra describes the instrument-strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion- and offers interesting information about them. Playful illustrations show the animal musicians...

A king who wishes for the golden touch is faced with its unfortunate consequences.

An imaginative poem about the fifteenth-century painter filled with medieval beasts and other images from Bosch's world. The weird creatures which inhabit a medieval painter's home drive his housekeeper away, until a change of heart sends her back to the beasts and to Bosch in a new and loving relationship.

A young motherless boy in a tribe of Blackfeet Indians is present when his people see horses for the first time and are changed forever.