Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. Some pages fold out to display particularly large pictures.

Opposites abound in a colorful garden, including a closed bud, an open blossom, a short caterpillar, and a long snake.

"Can you imagine writing to Father Christmas and actually getting a reply? For more than twenty years, the children of J.R.R. Tolkien received letters from the North Pole -- from Father Christmas himself! They told wonderful stories of mischief and disaster, adventures and battles: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place, how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas's...

Everything the villagers know about Big Bad Wolf is true and every time something frightening happens they are sure he is behind it, but there is more to the story, as revealed through die-cut pages.

Filled with the spirit of adventure, three cats pack their suitcases and try to escape from their book.

An assortment of spooky pop-up creatures describe themselves as the reader mixes and matches the split pages of this book.

Rhyming text, textured illustrations, lift-up flaps, and scratch-and-sniff spots teach about animal names, shapes, colors, and numbers, one to ten.

By lifting the flaps, readers can reveal the extraordinary things that are hidden inside of everyday items like acorns and stalks of wheat.

Illustrations and simple text invite the reader to visit different places around the world, then to view the same scenes at night on the reverse of the fanfolded page.