Christopher Raschka

A wordless picture book about all the fun a dog can have with her ball.

A ball for Daisy

Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

Yo! Yes?

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Follows the short life of Arlene, from brisling to canned sardine.

Arlene Sardine

Easy-to-read text reveals that dying is hard work, for the old and especially the young, and how good it is that so many people help when a person dies, from medical staff to clergy and friends to family members.

The purple balloon

A young dog experiences the fear of being lost and the joys of being found when she becomes separated from her owner.

Daisy Gets Lost

James Howe

When Otter falls in love with his food source, a fish named Myrtle, he must decide whether to follow the way of the otter or the way of his heart.

Otter and Odder

Vladimir Radunsky

Chester teaches his good friend Dudunya about napkins, "full-mouthed speaking accidents," and other important aspects of proper mealtime behavior, in an amusing introduction to the history, rules, and regulations of proper dining etiquette.

The Edifying Story of Two Friends Whose Discovery of Good Manners Promises Them a Glorious Future

Table Manners

Introduces the famous saxophonist and his style of jazz known as bebop.

Charlie Parker Played be Bop

Matches the tone of the chromatic scale to the color wheel in presenting a portrait of the work of the African American jazz musician and comoser of "Misterioso".

Mysterious Thelonious

Nikki Giovanni

Angry that his singing is unappreciated by the Ants who relied on his music to make their summer work easier, Jimmy Grasshopper decides to sue them for lacking respect and not acknowledging his usefulness in their lives. 35,000 first printing.

An Aesop's Fable Revisited

The Grasshopper's Song

Paul B. Janeczko

Presents a selection of children's poetry which illustrates twenty-nine different forms of poetry, including sonnet, couplet, ballad, elegy, and ode. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint.

An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms

A Kick in the Head

Jacqueline K. Ogburn

Takes a look at some of the terms of endearment used by loving parents to refer to their children from cultures around the world.

Endearments from Around the World

Little Treasures

Bill Martin

Michael R. Sampson

Francis Bellamy

Divides the Pledge of Allegiance into words and phrases in order to define its meaning.

The Pledge of Allegiance : with Commentary

I Pledge Allegiance

This book with text featuring a boy, a girl, a cat, and a dog can be read forwards or backwards.

Girl Meets Boy

Boy Meets Girl

From celebrated picture book creators Chris Raschka and Vladimir Radunsky comes one possible answer to the age-old question: Who was Mother Goose? We all love to hear Mother Goose rhymes and riddles. But did you know that there was a real Mother Goose who lived in Boston three hundred years ago? In 1692, Elizabeth Foster married a widower with ten children. His name was Isaac Goose, and after they married, Elizabeth became Mother Goose. She and Isaac had six more children together, and to help her care for such a big and boisterous family, Mother Goose sang songs and lullabies and made up rhymes and poems. Her nursery rhymes and stories were published at a print shop on Pudding Lane in Boston, though no copies of her book exist today. In a book featuring some of Mother Goose's best-loved works, Vladimir Radunsky's bright and humorous illustrations and Chris Raschka's rhyming poems tell the little-known story of the Goose children, Isaac and Elizabeth herself - the Mother Goose of Pudding Lane.

Christopher Raschka

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