Lois Ehlert

Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends.

"A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup."--

A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him.

"An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch."--

The top cat in a household is reluctant to accept the arrival of a new kitten but decides to share various survival secrets with it.

Short, easy to read rhymes reveal what is unique about various animals, from ape to wolf.

When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home.

The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark," and "wolf."

"A counting book depicting the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself." --

"Through rhyme and mixed-media collage illustrations, 'rain fish'--the varied, colorful, and unique little collections of materials that float along on streams of rain water during storms--come to life"--