Carmine loves the color red and stops to paint a picture on her way to visit her grandmother, while her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.

6 Starred Reviews! New York Times Bestseller! A People Magazine Best Children's Book! A Washington Post Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Honor recipient Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New...

A young boy lists all the things he will have to take with him on his first day in kindergarten.

Throughout the day, Baby Bear finds a book to fit every special moment.

Moonlight the cat loves everything about Halloween, from pumpkins to children to candy.

Contains a collection of illustrated, rhyming verse related to activities such as rope skipping, hand clapping, and ball bouncing.

Presents brief accounts of the work of a variety of women scientists in such fields as astronomy, biology, anthropology, and medicine.

Retells the story of Goldilocks and the three bears in rhyming text interspersed with Spanish words, which are defined in a glossary.

The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time"--Amazon.com.

Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.