Books like The Alaska Mother Goose: And Other North Country Nursery Rhymes
By Shelley Gill
For the kid who loves nursery rhymes but has started asking what a musk ox actually is, this book hands over a whole northern menagerie alongside the rhymes they already know. Playful, homespun, and full of northern wildlife charm.
A rhyming picture book invites young readers to imagine life as a penguin, from waddling walks to devoted parenting, paired with detailed illustrations throughout.
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.
Four tiny eggs hatch into hungry caterpillars, who eat, grow, and eventually transform inside their chrysalises into full-grown butterflies ready to fly free.
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.
A group of Maasai children sets out across the grasslands of Tanzania, counting animals from one to ten — a leopard, ostriches, giraffes — as they journey through the wild.
A small boy and a big friendly bear head off on a berry-picking adventure, paddling canoes and crossing bridges through Berryland in search of blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries for jam.
A hermit crab finds a brand-new shell and refuses to share it with a blobby purple anemone and a tickly bristleworm — until rock-pool life turns out tougher than he expected.
A boy named Carlos climbs a tree in the Costa Rican cloud forest, dropping his banana-leaf umbrella below, where a tree frog, baby tapir, jaguar, and more all try to squeeze inside as it floats along.
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 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 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 meadow comes alive as mother animals — from one mother turtle to ten mother fireflies — count out their babies through a gentle rhyming verse.
