Dyamonde Daniel is confident, perceptive and willing to figure out what is really bothering her friend Damaris.
"Making a mark is easy, just do it!" literally. Beginning with tools of the trade (paper, pens, etc.), children are encouraged to explore the language and techniques of drawing.
Stunning full-color photographs and crisp text introduce plants that gain nutrients by capturing unsuspecting insects and small animals.
Who was the uninvited guest found munching in a California office? It was a ringtail! Though sometimes called a cat, the small, winsome mammal is related to the raccoon.
Snakes are presented through up-close and personal image and text for and engaging, informative look at a host of colorful and handsome reptiles.
Complex engineered paper constructions create a series of worlds in which viewers are encouraged to locate various objects. In one, "Five black spots, four blossoms blue" and more are hidden in a lush garden that emerges from a red page.
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Perhaps one of the best known speeches of the 20th century, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" has been combined with lush paintings in a large format for a new generation. Included in this stunning book is a CD of Dr. King's original speech.
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Toad, Mole, Rat and Badger are back in this sequel to Kenneth Grahame's 1908 Wind in the Willows. Though several new characters are introduced, the lush language evokes the original saga and may lead readers to revisit the original.
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Textured collage and paint illustration and various poetic forms are used to introduce creatures that live in difficult, dangerous places.
Rendi, a self-centered, unhappy boy runs away from home and winds up in a sad town. Storytelling, however, instigated by a mysterious newcomer allows Rendi to mature and help the villagers.