Books like Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin Jr.
Familiar nursery rhymes get an Alaskan makeover, swapping in snow geese, musk oxen, sea otters, and Arctic foxes as the North Country's wild critters take center stage.
A bright, rhyming romp through a day in the life of birds — from the rooster's dawn crow to the owl's nighttime call — inviting little ones to cheep and tweet along.
A rhyming picture book moves through the many shades of green — forest green, lime green, firefly green, sea green — using die-cut pages that turn one green into another before your eyes.
A little fish paddles through the underwater world, meeting all kinds of fish along the way — spotty, stripy, happy, grumpy, hairy, scary, even curly whirly and twisty twirly.
A boy finds a salamander in the woods and imagines turning his own bedroom into a perfect woodland home, adding moss, trees, and stars to keep it happy.
A boy drifts off to sleep and dreams he's driving a night train through the countryside, stopping again and again to let endangered animals climb aboard.
A collection of poems imagines a curious inn run by poet William Blake, where dragons, angels, and a Man in the Moon all check in for the night.
A rhyming romp through everything that counts as a house — anthills, dog kennels, corn husks, pea pods — and eventually the surprising idea that a shoe, a mirror, even a word, might have a house too.
A big, friendly bear wanders through the woods noticing colors all around him — inviting little ones to spot matching colors of their own on every page.
A drowsy kitten chases a mouse right through a framed poster on the wall, tumbling into a chase across famous artworks and through history — and then must find his way back home.
Monarch butterflies leave Canada each fall and fly all the way to Mexico, crossing snow-capped mountains and deserts to reach the forests their ancestors once called home.
A collection of 15 poems digs down into the soil to introduce the spiders, earthworms, ants, and chipmunks who make their homes underground, revealed through spectacular vertical panoramas.
