Books like How The Leopard Got His Spots
By Rudyard Kipling
For the kid who wants to know why animals look the way they do, this classic turns a leopard's spots into a story worth telling. Warm, wise, and rooted in the rhythms of the African plains.
A girl who grows up watching fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains notices they blink in perfect unison — and sets out to convince skeptical scientists that the dazzling synchronized show is real.
A little girl and her mother pick blueberries on a Maine hillside, but when Sal wanders off she ends up trailing a mother bear while a hungry little bear follows her own mother instead.
A wide-eyed owl wakes up early and can't get back to sleep, so he explores the daytime forest for the first time, watching butterflies, wolf pups, and his very first rainbow.
A kitten spots the full moon and mistakes it for a bowl of milk, then sets off on a quest to reach it — a night that leaves her tired, wet, and hungry.
A rhyming tour through the jungle introduces elephants, tigers, giraffes, hippos, leopards, and chimpanzees, each with their own playful verse and a hidden animal to spot on every page.
A hungry squirrel searches for the nuts he buried, poking around a nest of fledglings, Mr. Owl, Frog, Vole, Mole, a cave of bats, and the woodchopper's house along the way.
A time-traveling guide skydives into Sequoia National Park, leading young explorers through groves of giant trees to uncover the park's history, wildlife, and a hidden danger threatening its ancient giants.
A little girl finds Santa standing right in her own house and can't stop asking him questions — about her fishes, her piano playing, and eventually a ride in his sleigh.
A boy named Rudy longs to fly more than anything, so he adopts a wild hawk, hoping their bond will somehow let him join it in the sky.
Tiny forest children living among the roots of an old pine tree move through a full year of seasons, swimming and picking berries in summer, gathering mushrooms with fairies in fall, and feeding animal friends through the snow.
A gallery of real animals shown at their true size — a two-foot tongue, an eye bigger than your head — turning astonishing facts into something you can see with your own eyes.
A young boy sets off on a moonlit walk armed with only an oversize purple crayon, drawing his own path through woods, seas, and dragons before finding his way safely back to bed.
