“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
What do you get when you cross . . . A toaster with a toad?A tuba with a baboon?A clock with an octopus?A hat with a chicken?An umbrella with an elephant?Why . . . A Pop-up ToadsterA TubaboonThe ClocktopusA Hatchicken and . . .The Bold UmbrellaphantAnd wh
It snowed.And snowed.And snowed.After it snowed,everyone bundled up andwent outside to play.You come, too!Carin Berger's exquisite collages illuminate, from dawn to dusk, the perfect winter day.
The poet, author, and indomitable naturalist Jack Prelutsky, having returned safely from far-flung places with an extensive collection of unique creatures that are a blending of the animate and inanimate, has worked in close collaboration with the fine ar
Instead of hibernating as he should, a little bear cub goes out in search of spring—and he thinks he's found it! Gloriously illustrated with dioramas and cut-paper collages by the award-winning designer and illustrator Carin Berger, this stunning pictur
As all the other leaves float off and fly past, Little Yellow Leaf thinks, I'm not ready yet.As the seasons change all around, Little Yellow Leaf holds on to the tree. Still not ready.Will Little Yellow Leaf ever be ready?This is a story for anyone who ha
