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A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents ... the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there...

Paperback edition includes bonus activities. "George is curious about all the field day Summer Games, but what sporting event will he compete in?"--

Curious George runs away from the zoo, and after his escape, he decided to take a bus and find his friend, the man in the yellow hat. He looks for him in a restaurant, and ends up working there for just a short period of time before things start to go wrong.

Edna the penguin tries to find something in her surroundings that is not black, white, or blue.

Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the real story of Pandora opening the box and releasing all the evils of mankind into the world.

The gruffalo's child goes out to find the Big Bad Mouse she has heard so much about.

When Wizard Wink goes to town for the day, Tickle, his cat, uses some of his magic to conjure up some milk and a mouse, only to get neither and give herself a three-foot-long tail.

Knowing that he must satisfy their curiosity, an old mouse agrees to show three young mice the "monster" at the top of the stairs.

A lonely little bunny finds an egg, and when it hatches into a duckling, they become friends.

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics-curiosity-in this lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation-where they can know only one side of the dialogue-than when they overhear two people talking and know both sides. Why does half a conversation...