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.
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
A collection of more than 200 poems by such modern poets as Nikki Grimes, John Ciardi, Karla Kuskin, Ted Hughes, e.e. cummings, Eve Merriam, Deborah Chandra, Arnold Adoff, and more than 100 others.
The poet laureate of the young set is back, with his artist laureate collaborator, to "take another swipe at stuffiness."- Here are more than one hundred poems bursting to be read, chanted, laughed over, and remembered.It would be hard to find a schoolage
The wizard, watchful, waits alone within his tower of cold gray stone and ponders in his wicked way what evil deeds he'll do this day.What do you think the wizard is planning to do? Conjure a magic spell? Turn a frog into a flea? Fill a cauldron with bubb
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glitter
