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Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave

To us it is just dirt, the ground we walk on... But to Dave it was clay, the plain and basic stuff upon which he formed a life as a slave nearly 200 years ago.

Interrupting Chicken

Awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor! A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken's habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head.

The Lion And The Mouse

Textless retelling of the Lion and the Mouse fable, with beautiful images. Winner of the 2010 Caldecott Award.

Inch By Inch

A winsome, winning inchworm, proud of his ability to measure anything under the sun, finds out that his is a lifesaving skill, too, when a hungry bird gets a little too close. Full color.

Red Sings From Treetops: A Year In Colors

An award-winning poet and a brilliant painter inspire us to look closer at the thrilling colors of the seasons.

The House In The Night

Here is the key to the house. In the house burns a light. In that light rests a bed. On that bed waits a book... A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this bedtime book for young children.

The Invention Of Hugo Cabret

Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity.

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story From The Underground Railroad

First The Egg

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The caterpillar or the butterfly? These and other origin questions are answered in a short collection of verses.

Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case Of Mistaken Identity

Trixie hurries to school to show off her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny. But an awful surprise awaits her; someone else has the same bunny! Filled with hilarious illustrations, this is a wonderfully true story that will have the whole family laughing.

The Wall: Growing Up Behind The Iron Curtain

Through journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child in his Soviet-controlled country. By joining memory and history, Sís takes us on his journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.

Flotsam

Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom

Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman escapes, taking with her only her faith, she must creep through the woods with hounds at her feet, sleep for days in a potato hole, and trust people who could have easily turned her in.

The Hello, Goodbye Window

The child in this story discovers how a part of her grandparents' house can provide memories to last a lifetime.

Rosa

Zen Shorts

A Caldecott Honor Book. When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.

Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story Of The First Hot-Air Balloon Ride

Song Of The Water Boatman And Other Pond Poems

Kitten's First Full Moon

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

The Red Book

Coming On Home Soon

Knuffle Bunny

A book about a little girl who needs her bunny, but her parents don't understand.

The Man Who Walked Between The Towers

The story of Philippe Petit who walked on a cable between the World Trade Center Towers in 1974.

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed