Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, John Reynolds Gardiner's story - like it's hero, Little Willy - has all the ingredients of a winner, right down to the unforeseen drama at the finish line. Willy has a big job to do. When his grandfather falls ill, it is up to Willy alone to save their farm from the tax collector. Willy enters the National Dogsled Race, where he must beat the Indian Stone Fox and his five beautiful Samoyed dogs.Reading this book is the summer assignment for the students between 3rd and 4th grades (age ~ 9) in some American elementary public schools.
Once upon a time there was a lad named William who was as silly as the day was long. Everyone called him Silly Willy. Find out how Willy marries Gretel who was just as silly as Willy.
Rescuing a baby dolphin whose parents have been poisoned by a chemical spill, Jesse and Willy the Whale learn that the evil Machine is behind the latest crisis, but their plan is thwarted when Willy is captured.
Silly Willy loves to get dressed in a most bizarre fashion--he puts pants on his head, socks on his ears, and the rest of his clothes in unusual places--in a zany tale combining rebus pictures with simple vocabulary to reinforce beginning reading skills.