Sendak, Maurice

The house of sixty fathers by Meindert De Jong( Buch )
16 editions published between 1956 and 2001 in Englisch and Hebräisch and held by 2,332 libraries worldwide
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.

Higglety pigglety pop! Or, There must be more to life by Maurice Sendak( Buch )
19 editions published between 1967 and 2001 in 4 languages and held by 2,136 libraries worldwide
The story of a dog who runs away from an ideal home in search of "something more to life," which turns out to be the role of leading lady in the World Mother Goose Theatre.

No fighting, no biting by Else Holmelund Minarik( Buch )
16 editions published between 1958 and 1988 in 4 languages and held by 2,067 libraries worldwide
Sometimes Rosa and Willy behave like the two little alligators in the stories Cousin Joan tells them.

Zlateh the goat, and other stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer( Buch )
25 editions published between 1966 and 1995 in 6 languages and held by 2,019 libraries worldwide
Stories about the inhabitants of the village of Chelm.

The animal family by Randall Jarrell( Buch )
24 editions published between 1965 and 1997 in 4 languages and held by 2,017 libraries worldwide
A mermaid, a hunter, a bear and a lynx all live together. One day the bear and lynx find a boy in a rowboat on the beach and bring him home too.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's farm by Betty Bard MacDonald( Buch )
10 editions published between 1954 and 2006 in Englisch and Schwedisch and held by 1,992 libraries worldwide
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it."

Along came a dog by Meindert De Jong( Buch )
14 editions published between 1948 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 1,860 libraries worldwide
A stray dog earns a home for himself by protecting a little red hen and her chicks from a preying hawk.

We are all in the dumps with Jack and Guy : two nursery rhymes with pictures by Maurice Sendak( Buch )
2 editions published in 1993 in Nicht bestimmt and Englisch and held by 1,859 libraries worldwide
Joins together two traditional nursery rhymes with illustrations depicting the plight and eventual triumph of orphaned and homeless children. With a benevolent moon as their guardian, Jack and Guy make their way out of the dumps, rescue a poor little kid with a black eye, and bring him home to triumph. In this, as in all his greatest books, Sendak speaks for children everywhere. They will recognize that what matters to him also matters, intensely, to them.

I saw Esau : the schoolchild's pocket book( Buch )
11 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in Englisch and Nicht bestimmt and held by 1,797 libraries worldwide
A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.

Little Bear's visit by Else Holmelund Minarik( Buch )
56 editions published between 1961 and 2004 in 11 languages and held by 1,539 libraries worldwide
Little Bear enjoys a visit with his grandparents.