Susan Schuyler Walker

Join Ted and Pad, the author's house cats, as they celebrate Christmas, their favorite holiday. Each Christmas holiday the two cats "help" set up the tree and decorate the house. They sip the tree water, rip open their stockings, try to sample Christmas supper, and love to play in the piles of tissue paper, bows, and ribbons.

Join me on my bicycle travels in this recollection of my 30 years of long-distance cycling. Climb some of America's highest mountain ranges, turn the pedals along North America's coasts and rivers, battle the relentless heat and mosquitoes of the western plains. Don't stop there. Ride the Danube River from Black Forest to Black Sea. Visit the cold, foggy, fishing villages of Alaska and Newfoundland. Learn what it is like to be burdened with hospitality on a solo, long-distance charity ride. Best of all, meet some of your fellow Homo sapiens, the most remarkable animals on the planet.

Ted & Pad, two cats who are housemates, invite cousins Tom and Bob over for pumpkin carving, cider, and trick-or-treating on Halloween night. The four cats invent and cleverly make their own costumes, before enjoying an evening going door- to-door for treats.At the end of the book, Ted & Pad treat the reader to a catalog of their favorite Halloween costumes.

Children who have food allergies will relate to Teddy, a gray cat with an allergy to turkey. Nonetheless, Teddy begs for turkey every Thanksgiving. Teddy learns to enjoy the foods he can eat and to use his imagination to combat his craving for forbidden turkey.

Blast and balderdash It's time to travel to the Jones's attic with wee Charlie Snarly-a grumpy hair tangle-in his quest for lasting friendships and a more peaceful home. Brushed out of his home in Jessica Jones's hair, where for months he has practiced the knotty art of macram , he meets some unusual characters and has some hair-raising adventures in the Jones's bathroom vanity drawer. Escaping the drawer, and joined by a dustball named Pflug (silent "P"), and C.C., a businesslike house spider, Charlie Snarly and his two new friends head for the Jones's attic where Charlie hopes to find a peaceful wig home. But, getting to the Jones's attic is not easy, even for the clever tangle. On the way, Charlie Snarly must deal with Jessica's mother, Jonesy; avoid little sister Lucy and the dreaded vacuum; steer clear of the Jones's cat, Muppet; fend off a gangster Brown Recluse Spider and a windup-toy bath frog; and battle an ant army. On this perilous journey, Charlie learns some important life lessons and makes some fast friends.