"A young girl notices and wonders about the ways she and her classmates approach doing good work, caring about people's feelings, and showing they're grateful. She comes to accept herself just as she is and celebrates the differences between herself and her classmates. "I care a lot. Not more than other kids, just in my own way." Inspired by the author's experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), I Think I Think a Lot can be a starting point...

"In this flippable picture book, the sun and moon are used to explain the concept of metaphor."--

"On a cold winter night, a young girl dreams of visiting her faraway grandfather in Kunming, a magical place in China known as the eternal city of spring. As gusts of snow blow outside her window, the gentle sound of her mother plucking the pipa in the family room wraps around her like a warm blanket. The intricately illustrated story is accompanied by 11 stirring instrumental performances by world-renowned pipa master, Liu Fang. With roots that reach...

When Lily, a young snowshoe hare, hears that winter is coming, she does not know what to expect, even as the other animals explain what they do to cope with the change of seasons, although, they note, snowshoe hares do not need to do the same.

"In this fanciful tale depicting the ups and downs of a writer's journey, a child is horrified to discover that all the words from a most carefully written poem have escaped through a ripped pocket. The young writer tries to capture all the escaped words, but they whirl and swirl in the wind -- mingling in mid-air to make fun puns and rhymes and comically mixing up with the signs and activities of a busy city street. Finally managing to gather all...

"Mom reads. Dad reads. And I read, too!" As a young boy revels in learning to read on his own, he begins to notice that reading is all around him... and not all of it is in books. There is his aunt who makes stories out of sound when she reads her sheet music. There is the tourist who reads the time on his watch while waiting for a train. There is the doctor who reads a thermometer. And the fisherman who reads the weather in the sky above him. The...

Follows the seasons from winter through autumn in the boreal forests, or taigas, that cover the northern parts of Eurasia and North America, highlighting their weather and the plants and animals that live there, and discusses their role in the water and carbon cycles, and the effects of climate change.

"Do you ever wonder what could happen if we all hid away? If we stayed in, we just might see ... the animals come out! A delightful series of poems describes the many animals that emerge from the woods, the hills and the skies when we are not around. Peek out your window and watch the deer grazing under the streetlights, the rabbits hopping through our vegetable gardens, and the ducks quack quack quacking along the sidewalks. The Animals Come Out...