A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.

The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches.

Long before "going green" was mainstream, Dr. Seuss's Lorax spoke for the trees and warned of the dangers of disrespecting the environment.

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and tap shoes and demonstrates some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy's emerging confidence in facing his blindness.

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

A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.

A father and child take a quiet walk together and listen to the sounds around them.

A boy finds a salamander in the woods and imagines the many things he can do to turn his room into a perfect salamander home.

"Hello, ocean, my old best friend." Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.

Mary O'Neill's renowned work of poetry about the colors of the spectrum, has become a modern children's classic.

Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be.

Readers are invited to join Rosalba and her grandmother on a magical journey, as they fly over the streets, sights, and people of Manhattan. The story is narrated in English and sprinkled with Spanish phrases.

In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy's emerging confidence in facing his blindness.

The unpredictable events of a particular Tuesday unroll before the reader with the precision and clarity of a silent movie.

An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

The pictures depicting the adventures of an infant girl and her canine babysitter one day while Mother is out are so vivid and alive that hardly a word is needed to tell the story.

While on a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is taken by a friendly cloud to visit Sector 7, where he discovers how clouds are shaped and channeled throughout the country. The wordless yet eloquent account of this unparalleled adventure is a funny, touching story about art, friendship, and the weather.

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind.

Emily Arnold McCully's lush summer-drenched watercolors tell a story that needs no words, filling the pages with the giddy joys of a large family picnic and the pluckiness of one small mouse who left it behind.

When a young boy discovers a camera on the beach and develops the film, he finds with his microscope many layers of pictures within the photographs.

While her third-grade classmates are sprouting seeds in paper cups, Holly has a more ambitious, innovative science project in mind.

In this wordless story, a young girl and her grandmother view works inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the balloon she has been forced to leave outside floats around New York City causing a series of mishaps that mirror scenes in the museum's artworks.

No book captures the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day.

A wordless tale in which a bird flying around the dinosaur exhibit in a museum has an unsettling experience when it finds itself back in the time of living dinosaurs.

One moment the sun is shining on the slopes of El Yunque. The next, everything has changed. A young boy describes the experiences of his family when a hurricane hits their home on the island of Puerto Rico.

When he falls asleep with a book in his arms, a young boy dreams an amazing dream-about dragons, about castles, and about an unchartered, faraway land.

A wordless story where the pictures have the hazy softness of air in snow. A little boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night.

In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is black, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.

You thought you knew the story of the "The Three Little Pigs". . . You thought wrong. In this humorous story, Alexander T. Wolf tells his own outlandish version of what really happens during his encounter with the three pigs.

Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! In his hilarious picture book debut, popular cartoonist Mo Willems perfectly captures a preschooler's temper tantrum.

John's Grandpa is blind. But Grandpa has his own way of seeing. And for John this makes a day spent with Grandpa an adventure -- of new sounds and smells and ways of doing everyday things.

A young spider discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being a spider, including how to spin webs and avoid vacuum cleaners.

Growing up in the mountains is depicted with a spare, lyrical text and beautiful, tender illustrations.

A girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that matter in life, especially being outdoors and experiencing nature.

One rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish that brings unexpected results.

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.