New York Children's Books

Old MacDonald is a super in an apartment building in the middle of the city. As the tenants move out, Old MacDonald moves vegetables and farm animals into the empty rooms. Everything is fine--until the day the owner comes by to collect the rent!

Georg Selden has written a whimsical tale of a little Connecticut cricket named Chester, whose entrapment in a wicker picnic basket leads to never-before-dreamed-of adventures in Times Square.

A stray dog in New York City is adopted by a taxi driver, with whom he thereafter rides and shares adventures each day.

A cranky neighbor puts Lyle the crocodile in the zoo but experiences a changeof heart when Lyle saves him from a fire.

A republication of the original 1937 Newbery Medal-winning classic follows the adventures of a free-spirited tomboy in 1890s New York as she traverses the city on a pair of roller skates.