![If Not for the Cat](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060596783.jpg?itok=oHABGUqe)
The essence of animals is evoked in rich language and the short form of haiku poems in this engaging book. Coupled with breathtaking and well composed illustrations, the poems are dramatically placed on double page spreads.
If Not for the Cat
![I'm Not Moving, Mama](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0613217519.jpg?itok=Ekd2H7q3)
A young mouse digs in his heels while his mother is packing up their house for the inevitable move. Adults and children will see familiar behavior when the small mouse insists that he’s not going. The satisfying conclusion makes this book especially helpful.
I’m Not Moving, Mama
![Only Passing Through](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/044041766X.jpg?itok=1YwriXh_)
Only Passing Through
![Owen](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688114490.jpg?itok=xkinAyCC)
Owen’s neighbor thinks that Owen is getting too old to take Fuzzy, his beloved yellow blanket, to kindergarten. With a snip, however, Owen’s inspired mom comes up with a creative solution for all.
Owen
![Peek!: A Thai Hide-And-Seek](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763620416.jpg?itok=nSDIGO5Y)
Baby knows that Jut-Ay means morning has come, and it’s time to play. But where is Baby hiding? Eechy-eechy-egg! crows the red-tailed rooster. Is Baby near? Hru-hruu! Hru-hruu! whines the puppy dog. Is Baby crouching there? Hornbill and snake, elephant and tiger – who can finally lead Papa to Baby’s hiding place?
Peek!: A Thai Hide-And-Seek
![Polar Bear Night](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439495245.jpg?itok=gTgJIQqm)
Polar Bear Night
![Ramona Quimby, Age 8](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0380709562.jpg?itok=fws_5WRr)
Ramona is ready for the challenges of a new school — without her older sister. It’s a year of change for the Quimby family and if everyone else can adjust, so can Ramona. The normal challenges of family life come alive here with verve and humor.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
![Remember: The Journey to School Integration](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/061839740X.jpg?itok=4ltWCbS5)
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison uses more than 50 archival photographs, many of children, to take readers on a journey to remember “the narrow path, the open door and the wide road” to integration of American schools before and after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board decision in 1954.
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
![Rolie Polie Olie](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060271639.jpg?itok=Ejqb2oLz)
Rolie Polie Olie
![Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0811826767.jpg?itok=cL6Io9n3)
A girl discovers things that are round, square, and rectangular in her urban neighborhood. A gently rhyming text and crisply lined illustrations reveal many things that are universally recognizable as well as others that come from the child’s Chinese background.
Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes
![Science Verse](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0670910570.jpg?itok=AJZY_NLk)
This boy’s curse begins when his teacher suggests that the “poetry of science” can be heard everywhere. From Moore to Frost, familiar poems are parodied and turned into science verse. Again art and illustration are inseparable as are the laughs in this offbeat look at science.
Science Verse
![Secrets of the Sphinx](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590098470.jpg?itok=Z_ZY4wzc)
The Great Sphinx has amazed and intrigued since it was first created some 4,500 years ago. Those secrets that have been revealed, and others that remain cloaked in mystery, are the subject of this well written, handsomely illustrated, and thoroughly engaging book.
Secrets of the Sphinx
![Sidewalk Circus](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763611077.jpg?itok=1gmXqVru)
As advertisements go up announcing the arrival of the circus, children imagine the different acts on the sidewalks of their town. It’s a nearly wordless but richly imagined adventure.
Sidewalk Circus
![Skyscraper: From the Ground Up](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375813098.jpg?itok=u9pJQ3hB)
From the architects’ plans to the tower’s completion, a New York skyscraper is created step by step. Clear text is presented on several layers of detail and is coupled with crisp, informative, full color photographs to document this fascinating process.
Skyscraper: From the Ground Up
![Sosu's Call](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1929132212.jpg?itok=SQvckIZL)
Sosu’s Call
![I Spy Mystery: A Book of Picture Riddles](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590462946.jpg?itok=1vs7uijm)
The I Spy books ask readers to use their sharp eyes to solve the rhyming riddles and identify the hidden objects on each page. The masterfully composed, intricate and crisp photographs are filled with readily recognizable images, just hidden out of sight.
I Spy Mystery: A Book of Picture Riddles
![No Such Thing](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1563974908.jpg?itok=eJSBW7DA)
No Such Thing
![Susan Laughs](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805065016.jpg?itok=hg_YUWCi)
What Susan does everyday is revealed in a simple, rhyming text and light-lined, colored pencil illustrations. What Susan does and how she behaves is what all children do but she does it using a wheelchair, revealed — without sentimentality — in the final spread.
Susan Laughs
![Tea Leaves](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1590349989.jpg?itok=L_tMarqV)
Shanti lives in the mountains of Sri Lanka with her mother, Amma, who works hard every day picking tea leaves. Before walking to school one day, Shanti asks her mother for her wishes. “I wish you good luck, and may you be surprised by what you learn,” says Amma.
Tea Leaves
![Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0762421002.jpg?itok=i5ugxtFH)
Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book
![Thank You, Mr. Falker](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0399231668.jpg?itok=miQRXZHw)
Learning how to read isn’t easy for Trisha. But with the help and support of a wise new teacher, she begins to blossom. Told with warmth and sensitivity, and illustrated in Polacco’s signature style, the story of a girl overcoming dyslexia is based on the author’s own experience.
Thank You, Mr. Falker
![The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1841482293.jpg?itok=iBHyUhWi)
A brief history of classical ballet opens this handsome, richly told collection of seven stories from ballets. Each story is introduced with information on the production and time period in which the ballet was first performed.
The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories
![The Bird Who Was an Elephant](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0397324456.jpg?itok=OcWdw6qy)
This cheerful picture book presents a day in the life of a bird who was an elephant long ago and has just returned to its small Hindu village in India.
The Bird Who Was an Elephant
![The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375822984.jpg?itok=DL4hXo6V)
How Theodore Geisel, a dreamer and doodler from Springfield, Massachusetts, came to be Dr. Seuss, is reveled through a concise text and selected early work by the artist. This book provides a rare glimpse into the personal life of the innovative children’s book author and illustrator.