Kevin Henkes

Five animal toys wait for marvelous things to happen.

Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.

A bird, a fox, a dog, and a squirrel overcome minor setbacks to have a very good day. On board pages.

Three little birds crack their way out of eggs and fly away, leaving one egg sitting all alone until the three chicks come back and discover a friendly baby alligator has finally hatched.

"Introduces concepts and vocabulary of fall--autumn colors, changes in plants and animals ... and wind, which soon leads to the next season"--

As he hops along a little rabbit wonders what it would be like to be green as grass, tall as fir trees, hard as rocks, and flutter like butterflies.

Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home.

A young girl visiting her grandparents at the beach stays in a little house and walks along the shore gathering seashells, wondering about the creatures who used to live in each shell, about the hidden treasures of the sea--and about the world.