Harriet Ziefert

"Really Bird is a small bird who lives in a large city park. Today he is thinking... It's really cold outside! What will it take to get Really Bird to play on this cold, snowy day?" -- Page [4] cover.

Join Leo and his sisters as they discover that every bus has surprises on board!--Back cover. "Patience pays off for Leo and his sisters as they wait for the right bus to take them to the park! Leo and his family are waiting for the bus, but each one that passes just isn't the right bus for them. First a red bus filled with a hen, a cow a duck, a goat and a horse, and driven by a sheep goes by, bound for the farm. Next a yellow bus jam-packed with...

Really Bird and his friends go on a picnic. Really Bird demands a bigger piece of pie, but in the end he discovers that sharing is about more than cutting up pieces of a pie.

Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many way that water is essential to our lives and the existence of life on earth. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of water - and the environmental danger to water posed by pollution and lack of respect for this precious resource. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well.

"Ten Little Fish combines numbers with simple adjectives ('fish above, fish below; seven fish, fast and slow') and simple verbs ('swim and dive fish, here are five fish')"-- "Ten Little Fish combina números con adjetivos simples ('pez arriba, pez abajo; siete peces, rápido y lento') y verbos simples ('nadar y bucear, aquí hay cinco peces')"--

"Song-like rhyming text invites readers to guess what different components add up to. For example, a secret's part whisper, part keeping mum, and a certain kind of fruit is part peach and part plum (a nectarine)"--

Not content to stay in the leading lady's dressing room, a curious cat wanders onstage before the curtain goes up.

Combines simple rhymes with anime-style illustrations in a series of skill-building stories that invites young readers to become familiar with word families that share similar long- and short-vowel sounds.

When Max learns that his mother is going to have a baby, he talks and sings to his unborn sibling but he cannot seem to make the baby come out sooner.