Bøger af Michael Verrett

Do you know why so many trees fall down during a storm? It just might be because a dinosaur lives in the forest. Gug Gug is a dinosaur so large the illustrator needs two pages to draw his tail. He awakens with a grumbling stomach and a hunger for pumpkins and watermelons. So, he sets out crossing the blue bridge over Gemstone River in search of his breakfast. He is warned that a storm approaches, but dinosaur are not afraid of any old storm - or is he?

Down on the Bayou Teche in Louisiana, grand-nephew Valentin Michel visits Maw Maw and Paw Paw in time for dinner. Maw Maw how has new glasses and doesn''t see well, is cooking gumbo. Due to poor vision, she confuses Valentin Michel with his cousin, Evangeline Marie. She served him a bowl of gumbo without realizing in it is a live crab. Paw Paw has nodded off and so, when he tells Maw Maw he can''t eat his his gumbo because in is is a crab trying to eat him, Maw Maw responds, "EAT YOUR GUMBO!"The story contains idioms, phrasing, and sentence structure unique to my Cajun relatives of southern Louisiana not to mention the art of cooking gumbo.

The prettiest girl on Planet X and her puppy, Knuffelen, live near a friendly sun and moon. She and her puppy fix robots, fly rockets ships, and collect moon beams, stardust, and sunbeams has they travel around OUT--SPACE!

How far and how high can your imagination go? How high will pigs stack, how high can puppies pile? How far will a little mouse go to feed his family? A collection of vignettes featuring dogs, cats, bird, mice, frogs, fish, penguins, a boy and his kite and a girl with her balloon and others.