George Shannon

A collection of short poems and riddles about planting seeds, watching garden vegetables dance, and growing jack-o-lanterns.

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

Encourages the reader to look at objects in nature from another perspective, observing their colors in a new way.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

Debbie, a dancing cow, is anxious to join Wise Acres farm's Secret Chicken Club.

Celebrates the eccentric behavior of chickens, from a chicken who laid an egg as she danced, to a chicken who dresses up on Halloween as a deviled egg, to a chicken who is a sumo wrestler.

Fifteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

A group of frogs enjoys dancing in the rain so much that they seem not to notice a snake sneaking up on them.