Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down an old, old road, looking backwards from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals

Agatha Walker does not want to live on the busiest street in town!Rushmore Boulevard is the busiest street in town—until Agatha May Walker decides to do something about it. Armed with a batch of Sweet and Spicy ginger snaps, a wingback chair, a card table, and a Parcheesi set, Agatha and her best friend, Eulalie Scruggs, take to the street to reclaim it from the noisy cars, motorcycles, and giant trucks that rumble by all day long. Can these lifelong friends convince their neighbors to stop and smell the honeysuckle, listen to the mariachi band, and best of all, sample the Sweet and Spicy ginger snaps?In this charming picture book about slowing down, a laid-back attitude is the best kind. So sit for a spell and give it a whirl!

Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down a very old road, looking backward from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals

When young Richard doesn't stop fooling around in the back of the car, his father goes through with his threat of leaving him off by the side of the road, but when his family comes back to retrieve him, Richard doesn't want to leave and so sets up a home there where he will live for the rest of his life. 55,000 first printing.

When a family of porcupines enters a dangerous situation as Bob and his crew build a road, they create a plan to help the animals cross the road safely.

Product Description: "Answering the child's questions, the mother tells how her great-grandparents used the road, then moves back to Civil War soldiers, earlier settlers . . . and finally . . . 'the mystery of the making place' . . . A lovely, beautifully crafted book ...read more

A truly catastrophic traffic problem occurs when a bus gets stuck in a hole, leading to a cumulative jam.

Bump is very unhappy when his home in the forest is destroyed by the construction of a road and he becomes a bump in that road.

After reading about faraway lands, a young girl closes her eyes and imagines all the wonderful places a road could take her, from a cave full of treasure to a witch's house and even to Mexico.

Zoe and her family must learn to adjust when a four-lane highway is routed through their house because of the mysterious X

Sherman and Pearl, spend their day waving to people who pass by on the road through town until a new freeway goes in, and people stop using the old road

Product Description: On their way to the mountains for their annual vacation, the Puddle family take the usual road but the road seems to have other ideas about where it wants to go.

A boy describes the special characteristics of a thruway.