Rhymed text and illustrations relate the life of John Chapman, whose distribution of appleseeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left a legacy still enjoyed today.
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A cat's quiet life is disrupted one day when a window is broken, and after several frustrating attempts to find a suitable place, he winds up in the perfect spot.
A young girl describes all the things she likes about her grandmother, including the purple bus she drives, growing vegetables, picketing City Hall, and playing the banjo.
A girl preparing for school is surprised by the number of barnyard animals gathering in the road outside.
The day the goose gets loose, havoc reigns at the farm as all the animals react.
In her funny and wistful new book, Reeve Lindbergh contemplates entering a new stage in life, turning sixty, the period her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once described as "the youth of old age." It is a time of life, she writes, that produces some unexpected surprises. Age brin...
An alphabetical listing of the acts of destruction committed by mischievous aardvarks on their animal classmates during a visit to school.
I'm dirty!: A sassy backhoe loader who likes to brag about his equipment and relishes his job gets to work and gets dirty!
Aardvarks invade the Shop-All-Day Mall and turn it upside down with their wild back-to-school shopping spree.
Retells, in simple words, a psalm of God's knowledge of and love for each of us.
Rhyming verse and illustrations describe the arrival of spring in the north. Includes a section with facts about animal behavior.
A rhymed view of the interrelatedness and belonging of all things and creatures in the universe, from the stars, to the sea, to a mouse, to a child.
Sisters Beth and Jill share an experience of country life when they visit their aunt and uncle.
As a grandmother tucks her grandson into bed, she quietly answers his questions about nature in rhyme.
Rhyming text gives praise and thanks for all of creation including wind and sun, plants and animals, desert, rocks, and sea.
Tom's grandmother is very forgetful and repeats herself often, but as long as he is there to help her, everything works out just fine. Sometimes Tom's grandmother forgets the way home from the market, or that Tom's name is Tom and not Roy. But Tom doesn't mind. He loves to help h...
A collection of inspirational poems, prayers, and other writings grouped, "For the day, For the home, For the earth, and For the night."
A rhymed telling of the life of the first African American aviator, who dreamed of flying as a child in the cotton fields of Texas, and persevered until she made that dream come true.
Secrets of the dark are revealed in this poem describing a farm at midnight.