Books like Little Owl's Day
By Divya Srinivasan
For the toddler who wakes up before everyone else, wide awake and ready to see what the world looks like without them — this is the story of that curiosity paying off. Gentle, sunlit, quietly wondrous.
A nonfiction tour of twelve animals — from ladybugs to lungfish to desert hedgehogs — that survive summer's heat and dry spells by sleeping through them, and why each one does it.
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.
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 curious cat named Sneakers explores the seaside for the first time, meeting a mischievous crab, playful shrimp, and a shell that echoes with the sound of the ocean.
A rhyming picture book invites young readers to imagine life as a penguin, from waddling walks to devoted parenting, paired with detailed illustrations throughout.
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 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 curious cub spends a day exploring the forest with his mama, noticing green leaves, blue jays, and brown trout along the way, until he finds a patch of red strawberries.
A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg on a leaf and eats his way through days of the week and an amazing variety of foods, growing bigger as he prepares to become a butterfly.
Two kids leave their paved, noisy neighborhood on an adventure through woods and fields, searching for wildness — and discovering it lives in bark, storms, flowers, and fruit, not just far away.
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.
A bird gathers everything she needs to build a nest — pulling a worm from the ground, lifting twigs that are just the right size, pushing them into place — until her nest is finally ready and waiting.
