Lois Ehlert

A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.

The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as roof, rough, bark, and wolf.

A child describes the growth of a maple tree from seed to sapling.

When the neighborhood cat tries to crash the mice's harvest party, the mice have a plan to scare the intruder away.

When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home.

Alphabet letters and bold, graphic images of fruits and vegetables come together in this book of pun-filled rebuses about love and friendship.

Describes some of the many things in the natural world--such as worms, seashells, flowers, and stars--that a child can appreciate. Children will be fascinated by the brilliant, bold colors of the shifting outlines, and by the rebus poem at the end, which features all the shapes in the book.

Through rhyme and mixed-media collage illustrations, 'rain fish'--the varied, colorful, and unique little collections of materials that float along on streams of rain water during storms--come to life--

Illustrations and rhyming text follow ten caterpillars as one wriggles up a flower stem, another sails across a garden pool, and one reaches an apple leaf, where something amazing happens.

Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.