Animals look and behave as they do for a reason. It’s for communication, to help get food, or for defense. Detailed illustrations and crisp text provide brief information about the topic of why animals look like they do.
Creepy Creatures
Informal text and photographs of multi-hued animal subjects explain the reasons for their coloring.
Animal Dazzlers: The Role of Brilliant Colors in Nature
Lush collage illustration and clear text share information about male animals and how they care for their young. Text is presented so that it can be shared readily briefly or in greater detail.
Animal Dads
Fascinating sleep habits of various animals are presented in short text and full-color, appealing illustrations. The text can be read in a shorter form in a larger typeface or in its entirety.
Animals Asleep
Math-terpieces
Math Potatoes: Mind Stretching Brain Food
Math for All Seasons: Mind Stretching Math Riddles
Math Fables Too
Math Fables
Math Appeal: Mind Stretching Math Riddles
Best of Times: Math Strategies that Multiply
Seven Silly Eaters
Hush, Little Baby
Zen Ties
Stillwater, a large panda, tells each child a story that illustrates a principle of Zen. Although the tales will captivate children, adults may recognize the philosophy imbedded in them. Delicate, handsome illustrations capture the mood and flow of the stories.
Zen Shorts
Three Questions
Stonecutter
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth
No Dogs Allowed
I Will Hold You ‘Till You Sleep
Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year
Come on, Rain
Pizza, Pigs and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
Despite the dry subtitle, this is actually a lively guide to poetry forms both familiar and obscure. In a picture-book format, Janeczko uses examples and informative language to illustrate a wide variety of poems.