![Diary of a Worm](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006000150X.jpg?itok=_OD-OoIl)
What icky creature looks the same from both ends? The worm, of course! For the first time ever, get the insider’s view of life from this creepy crawler’s perspective. He lives underground with his family, eats his homework and does his best to annoy his sister — documenting it all in a diary. Simple illustrations are the ideal complement to the understated humor (though nonetheless laugh-out-loud tone) of the text.
Diary of a Worm
![The Sun is So Quiet](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805041192.jpg?itok=YJ7TlE5n)
This collection offers children an introduction to poetry through rich imagery and vivid illustrations. The stream-of-consciousness style sticks to familiar childhood themes to keep children engaged.
The Sun is So Quiet
![Anno's Counting Book](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/069001287X.jpg?itok=2QLFOgKN)
As a barren landscape begins to fill with people, trees, buildings, and more, readers can count the changes beginning with zero. The increasingly detailed, handsome watercolors encourage readers to counting and sort during the evolution of the countryside, much like the United States census.
Anno’s Counting Book
![Yuck!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1845070887.jpg?itok=_ZVObk0r)
Baby birds and baby lizards don’t eat what our baby eats! Those babies eat worms, fish, beetles and other yucky things. But those babies would say “Yuck!” to the warm milk that our baby enjoys. Light lines on large, warm-toned pages convey humor and just a bit of information to be shared again and again.
Yuck!
![Why?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1929132808.jpg?itok=YmLpJmF5)
Animals can seem unusual to the uninitiated. Why do lions have manes? (No, it’s not to show off or because they eat barbers.) Why do walruses have moustaches? These “whys” and more are addressed by silly answers as well as brief facts in this attractive book of large, comic illustrations and varied typefaces.
Why?
![White Is for Blueberry](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006029275X.jpg?itok=4U2X_GQa)
When is “pink for crow…”? When it has “just hatched from its egg.” Vibrant, uncluttered paintings accompany the straightforward text to explore different ways of looking at things and prove that blueberries can be white!
White Is for Blueberry
![Chameleon, Chameleon](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439666538.jpg?itok=BpYCzrVD)
Crisp color photographs of the panther chameleon that is native to Madagascar are combined with informative but engaging text in this book. It is an unforgettable journey across the chameleon’s habitat, where readers come to appreciate the creatures and their environment.
Chameleon, Chameleon
![Spiders and Their Webs](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0792269799.jpg?itok=j-iZEn4k)
A biologist introduces spiders and their webs through stunning full color close-up photographs and a lively text. Spider facts include the arachnids’ common and scientific names, size, where they live, and what they eat. A technique to find webs and additional sources of information conclude this handsome volume.
Spiders and Their Webs
![Eddie's Garden and How to Make Things Grow](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1845070151.jpg?itok=C4-EkhrL)
The garden that Eddie and his Mum plant while his younger sister “helps” grows in the warm earth with the help of sun, rain, and beneficial creatures like worms. Eddie learns that other creatures (like slugs) eat plants. This gentle, engaging family story informs and illuminates many aspects of gardening.
Eddie’s Garden and How to Make Things Grow
![Have You Seen My Duckling?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688109942.jpg?itok=xeHAd2Qm)
Mother duck needs help to find her mischievous missing duckling in this Caldecott Honor Book. She asks the other pond animals for help (though the missing one is never lost, only cleverly concealed in each picture).
Have You Seen My Duckling?
![The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590403605.jpg?itok=uQ7n4SlJ)
Ms. Frizzle, an unflappable science teacher, drives the magical school bus into a cloud where the children shrink to the size of water droplets and follow the course of water through the city’s waterworks system.
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
![Tuesday](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0395870828.jpg?itok=l4AblEXc)
Slowly and quietly on this particular Tuesday, a few fat frogs begin hovering over a swamp, riding lily pads like magic carpets. Gradually, the flying fleet grows in momentum and number, sailing over the countryside and into an unsuspecting town.
Tuesday
![Clara Caterpillar](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060289953.jpg?itok=athA9aYx)
After her mother lays the egg, Clara becomes a plain caterpillar and then, predictably, a plain butterfly. Her homely color, however, camouflages Clara and allows her to become a hero by saving her once-haughty friend from a hungry crow. Butterfly fact and utter imagination combine in this winning tale of courage and contentedness.
Clara Caterpillar
![Drylongso](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152015876.jpg?itok=cCzkdlGz)
Newbery Award winner Virginia Hamilton describes how Lindy and her family suffer through a long drought. Then a mysterious boy comes and teaches them the secrets of finding water hidden in the earth.
Drylongso
![Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688170676.jpg?itok=OZp9gnRL)
Using the alphabet as a pattern, paintings and brief poems explore rural life in Mexico presented first in Spanish and followed by English. From A to Z, brilliant illustrations and fluid poems evoke the plants, and more and the emotional impact on the lives of farm workers.
Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
![Early summer garden with flowers and bugs](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/2023-04/jacks-garden.jpeg?itok=-sicUzzP)
In this cumulative tale, Jack plants, tends and harvests his garden. Not only will readers follow Jack’s activities, they’ll learn about gardens and gardening in this informative and animated book through text and highly detailed and well-labeled illustrations. (The author’s background as a science teacher is pleasantly evident.)
Jack’s Garden
![Lily's Garden](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0761315934.jpg?itok=7EUDXU9y)
It was cold and snowy when Grandma and Grandpa left their home in Maine to live in California. Lily, the young narrator, fills each month with activities that range from collecting sap to planting a garden. After a whole year has passed, Grandma and Grandpa return in December to share Christmas with Lily and her family in New England. Illustrated sidebars extend the text and provide additional information about Lily’s garden over the months.
Lily’s Garden
![A Seed Grows: My First Look at a Plant's Life Cycle](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1550742000.jpg?itok=J3ayiG31)
Crisp illustrations fold out to illustrate the way Sam’s garden grows. Simply told in a familiar cadence, this cumulative tale may inspire young children to grow a garden while exploring their environment.
A Seed Grows: My First Look at a Plant’s Life Cycle
![Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0399239545.jpg?itok=D4_snIUS)
Slowly, slowly, slowly… that’s how the sloth lives. He hangs upside-down from the branch of a tree, night and day, in the sun and in the rain, while the other animals of the rain forest rush past him. “Why are you so slow? Why are you so quiet? Why are you so lazy?” the others ask the sloth. And, after a long, long, long time, the sloth finally tells them!
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth
![I Stink!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060298480.jpg?itok=b2QV76AS)
Exuberant illustrations and varied typefaces show a trash truck’s pride in the important work he does. He eats an alphabet of really dreadful and smelly trash which makes the point that without this city service, “you’re on Mount Trash-o-rama, baby.” Now, that’s gross!
I Stink!
![Summersaults](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060292679.jpg?itok=mP6Vv3Ql)
Short poems and child-like illustrations framed on brilliantly white pages capture the splendor (“Morning glories/Campfire stories‡”) and sorrow of summer *(“Skinned knees/Ninety degrees‡). Readers will readily relate to all aspects of summer, seen in a short poem for the end of summer: “Three words/Most cruel:/Back to school.”
Summersaults
![The Legend of the Bluebonnet](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0698113594.jpg?itok=ieNm3k-S)
Bluebonnets are the state flower of Texas. How they came to be is an Indian legend from the Comanche tradition. An orphan, She-Who-Is-Alone, is raised by the tribe in a time of drought and famine. Her sacrifice brings the people back into harmony with nature and saves the tribe. Stylized illustrations (though obviously still dePaola’s work) provide atmosphere for this inspiring, touching, and respectful tale.
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
![Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064450260.jpg?itok=X5-Omb0o)
Did you know that corn is a grass? Early American Indian farmers figured out how to cultivate corn and shared their knowledge with the European settlers. Easy to read language and crisp illustrations provide a glimpse into the importance of corn throughout history.
Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
![Every Autumn Comes the Bear](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0698114051.jpg?itok=37g-pUeJ)
As the seasons change, a large black bear prepares for hibernation. In his search for a den, he startles a bobcat, a grouse, and other smaller animals. Striking watercolors and brief text, drawn from the artist’s observations of a bear behind his Vermont home, explain the balance found in nature and the cycles of life.