Books like Hot Dog
By Doug Salati
While a family settles into supper, bath time, and bed, their farm cat slips outside to watch the night unfold — sunsets, a hunting owl, a shooting star, and more that only she sees.
A gentle poem asks young readers to remember the sky they were born under, the moon, the sun's dawn birth, and the family and creatures that connect them to the earth.
As the sun comes up, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, and bugs wake one by one, until finally the children rise to greet the day too.
A little bunny named Nicholas lives in a hollow tree and shows what he loves best about each season, from picking spring flowers to curling up for a winter's sleep.
A child looks closely at a single flower, using every sense to explore its color, its scent, its texture — and discovers a whole universe unfolding from one small bloom.
A gentle look at all the reasons trees are good to have around — for climbing, for shade, for leaf piles to roll in, and for birds to build nests in.
A rhyming journey through a small pond as spring turns to autumn, following tadpoles, herons, and other creatures through their busy, splashing days.
A poetic meditation on how nature — sunlight, rain, wind, the changing seasons — slips into our homes and lives even when we're stuck indoors, gently reminding us we're never really separate from the outside world.
A sheltered prince leaves his palace, encounters suffering and death for the first time, and gives up his family and wealth to search for the truth of life — a journey that ends in enlightenment beneath a bodhi tree.
A year moves through spring, summer, autumn, and winter as each season is felt through its colors — red singing from treetops, blue dancing on summer lakes, green waiting quietly in winter trees.
