Catching Gracie is the story about the trials, fears, and disappointments the Bakers had as they searched for their small black-and-tan dachshund, Gracie.
Henry the Hippo wants nothing more than to jump the river like the jumpy tree frogs, but he soon finds his journey to jump may not be as easy as he first hoped.
"e;Puffy and the Formidable Foe"e; is an easy-to-read book about a youngster who goes out to play, then leaves home, and learns what a mistake that is.
The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.
These tales of the man-cub, Mowgli, and fables of the clever creatures of the wild, like the mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, still brim with the adventure, camaraderie, and beloved characters that have endeared them to readers for more than 125 years.