Part One: Grades one, two, and three -- Why Mosquitoes Bozz in People's Ears / Verna Aardema -- A Writing Pioneer / Margaret Wise Brown -- A Beautiful World / Barbara Cooney -- A Most Famous Elephant / Jean de Brunhoff -- May I Bring a Friend? / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- Making Poetry / Aileen Fisher -- From Trumpeter to Artist / Don Freeman -- Great Awards for Great Books / Ezra Jack Keats -- Who's a Fat Cat? / John Wellington (Jack) Kent -- The Trouble with a Pen Name / James Edward Marshall -- What Do You See? / Bill Martin Jr. -- Make Way for McCloskey / Robert McCoskey -- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas / Clement Clarke Moore -- From Cartoons to Books / Bill Peet -- A Woman with Tales to Tell / Beatrix Potter -- Making Magic / William Steig -- What Is Your Name Spelled Backwards / Lynd Kendall Ward -- From Clowning to the Caldecott / David Wisniewski -- Part Two: Grades two, three, and four -- The Shoemaker's Son / Han Christian Anderson -- Bonjour Paris! / Ludwig Bemelmans -- If It's by the Berenstains, It's Got to Be about Bears / Stanley Berenstain -- Trains, Steam shovels, and Little Houses / Virginia Lee Burton -- A Short Life and a Long Legacy / Randolph Caldecott -- Draw to Live and Live to Draw / Wanda Gag -- The Joy and the Agony / Kenneth Grahame -- From Dolls to Designs / Kate Greenaway -- Once upon a Time / Jacob Lugwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm -- A Munster of a Writer / Fred Gwynne -- Seeing the Magic / Trina Schart Hyman -- A Frog and a Toad / Arnold Lobel -- Who is the True Mother Goose? / Mother Goose aka Elizabeth Goose -- Celebrating the Artist of Olvera Street / Leo Politi -- Tickle Me with Poetry / Shel Silverstein -- From Siberia to America / Esphyr Slobodkina -- A Simple Life / Tasha Tudor -- It Could Have Been Worse / Margot Zemach.