Lois Ehlert

This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth. Lois Ehlert's bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.

"The brief and cheery tone serves as an inviting introduction into a fascinating life cycle." - Publisher's Weekly "Every spring, butterflies emerge and dazzle the world with their vibrant beauty. But where do butterflies come from? How are they born? What do they eat-and how?With a simple, rhyming text, Lois Ehlert provides clear answers to these and other questions as she follows the life cycle of four common butterflies, from their beginnings...

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

An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.

On a cold, snowy night, all is quiet throughout the house except for a small, mischievous mouse.

A counting book depicting the colorful fish children might see if they turned into fish themselves.

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

"After digging holes and munching on crawly bugs, a chubby mole settles in her cozy burrow for winter. Includes glossary identifying all of the different worms, caterpillars, moths, and butterflies included in the illustrations" --