20 | June | 2011 | Rarest Kind of Best

Grasshopper On the Road

by Arnold Lobel

New York: Harper & Row, 1978

57 pp. – 6 stories

Age: 5+

Interests: insects, differing viewpoints, philosophy

Also by this author: Frog and Toad books, Fables

by L. Frank Baum

original illustrator W. W. Denslow

first published 1900

158 pp. (in New York: Sterling, 1999) – 24 chapters

Age: 5 +

Interests: magic, witches, adventure, travel, tornadoes

Also by this author: 14 Oz sequels, of varying quality