John Walsh Anglund Knihy

Joan Walsh Anglund became successful with her first book, A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You, in 1958. She's been making books featuring these same round-faced mouthless characters ever since, and her popularity continues to grow. There's something ineffably sweet about her creations, which are based in large part on people and places in her own life-- particularly on her children Joy and Todd....She seems to strike a nerve and her images of childhood have an innocence and purity that people respond to with a rush of nostalgia.--Loganberry BooksText and illustrations describe what a friend is is.

An alphabet book giving a Mother Goose rhyme for each letter, such as Three Blind Mice for the letter "M."

Words and illustrations describe the tender, happy feeling that is called love.

Brief tales relate the adventures of teddy bears at play, learning about numbers, colors, and telling time, and traveling with Santa Claus on Christmas Eve

Describes that entity that can make an important individual out of every small person in the vast universe.

A poor woodcutter's two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch.