A character known as Sam-I-Am is the persistent purveyor of this title paired offering

This classic by Maurice Sendak was turned into a 1980 opera

Here's an illustration of this title girl and her pet monkey Mr. Nilsson

A book by Virginia Lee Burton is titled Mike Mulligan and this large construction tool

During WWII the Pevensie children are evacuated from London to an old professor's country estate in this 1950 book

This bear is named for a train station & arrives in England as a stowaway from South America

In a work by Crockett Johnson he draws his own world with his purple crayon

If You Give a child this 1985 Laura Numeroff book he's liable to ask for another

In 1888 before his imprisonment this playwright published The Happy Prince and Other Tales for children

Matchboxes make good dressers for the tiny Clock family in this 1952 story by Mary Norton

Sally & her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat

Mowgli's Brothers is the first story in this 1894 collection

Bugs Meany is often the villain in the stories about this young detective who was introduced in 1963

This Hans Christian Andersen maiden was born in a tulip; a polished walnut shell served as her cradle

This mouse created by Lucy Cousins for preschoolers has such friends as Cyril the Squirrel & Eddie the Elephant

A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was Green Eggs and Ham

Sketches written for punch became his first novel Lovers in London; Winnie-the-Pooh came 21 years later

An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him and the Kittens

David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different

As well as kids' books this 19th century author wrote Examples in Arithmetic & other math textbooks

An adaptation of this Grimm tale includes the line Who is gnawing at my house?

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam) Mary Mapes Dodge had never been to Holland when she wrote this 1865 tale set on Dutch canals

In 1962 this author & illustrator published The Nutshell Library which includes the book Chicken Soup with Rice

A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect in Times Square

If You Give a Mouse a Muffin is a follow-up to this 1985 book by Felicia Bond & Laura Joffe Numeroff