Rosemary Wells

A story that kicked off a literacy campaign at the White House. Wells' sweet, rhyming text encourages parents to read to their children for twenty minutes every day and see the magic of reading begin.

Almost everyone, young and old, likes to try their hand in the kitchen.

Sophie knows lots of words, but she doesn’t always use them. It’s more fun to speak in hyena talk or space language. “Use your words, Sophie!” urge her parents, but Sophie just won’t. But when her new baby sister arrives, Sophie is the only one who can find out what she really...

A new audiobook introduces irrepressible Sophie to a younger audience. On Halloween night, Sophie and Grover trade her wooly mammoth costume for his black widow spider disguise. They are sure Grandma won't know who they are. But when a giant squid opens the door to greet the trick-or-treaters at...

Sophie means to be a good little mouse, but she just can't resist testing the limits with her patient parents and grandmother. Eat supper? More fun to throw it on the floor. Fold the laundry? More fun to knock over the pile. Read with Grandma? More fun to steal her glasses. And then it’s time...

Timothy learns about "fitting in" and making friends during the first week of his first year of school....

Irrespressible Max wants to stay up late on Christmas so he can see Santa Claus....

Max's overbearing big sister, Ruby, suggests that the chocolate chicken in the birdbath should go to the one who finds the most Easter eggs....

Nora makes herself heard when everyone in her house is too busy to listen....

After her best friend, Annie, leaves for a fancy camp in New Hampshire, Ivy can’t imagine how she’s going to endure the long, hot Nevada summer....

The great stock market crash has rippled across the country, and the bank takes over Oscar's family home - along with all their cherished model trains....