George Shannon

It's easy to take a cookie out of the cookie jar: just reach in. But how does it get in there in the first place? It's more complicated than you might think. Someone has to milk the cow, grow the wheat, harvest the sugar cane-everyone has a special job to do to make that cookie possible. In Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?, George Shannon and Julie Paschkis take us on a delicious cookie journey, showing how many hands work together so that...

In this collection of "lies" from many nations, the challenge is to find the slippery truth. By reading with care and not jumping to conclusions, readers will delight in discovering how these characters lie while at the same time they tell the truth.

A forgetful and selfish bear makes a pest of himself until the lizard tailors his song so that the bear can finally remember it.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal that hands, as they carry out ordinary tasks, are also showing love.

Celebrates families of different sizes, ages, races, and gender orientations in a story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten.