Graeme Base

An alphabet book with fantastic and detailed pictures, bearing such labels as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library."

The inhabitants of a coral reef are threatened when a shady real estate deal started by the greedy Groper floods their area with poisonous waste.

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

Uno builds a home and garden in the forest among the playful puddlebuts and feathered frinklepods, but as the place becomes more popular, it is overtaken by tourists and buildings until the forest and animals seem to disappear altogether.

Grandma, who lives with a large collection of animals in her small Australian town, takes a disastrous trip to the seaside.

Among the ruins of Angkor Wat, Tiger, Gibbon, Water Buffalo, and Gecko accept Elephant's challenge to race to a certain temple to settle their argument over who would have made the greatest king, and at the end Elephant explains how the competition showed each one's strengths and weaknesses. Includes search-and-find illustrations and a brief history of the "City of Temples."

When Bertie the badger visits his grandfather at a retirement home for magicians, he learns that his grandfather's rabbit, Enigma, has disappeared along with everyone's magical things, and the reader is invited to help break a code to find the items hidden throughout the book. Includes a built-in decoder.