"A ninja must be strong, courageous, and silent! He creeps through the house on a secret mission. There may be obstacles! But have no fear--a true ninja can overcome all challenges"--

"A young child is led on a chase before bed, as her puppy would prefer to play rather than sleep."--

"Miggy Brenneman is a wild and reckless seven-year-old with a fierce imagination ... Ellen is polite, cautious, and drawn to her friend's bright flame. While the adults around them adjust to unstable times and fractured relationships, the girls respond with increasingly dangerous play. When tragedy strikes, all the novel's characters grapple with questions of fate and individual responsibility, none more so than Miggy, who must make sense of a swiftly...

High in the Andes Mountains, the littlest llama wants to play but his mother, sisters, gran, and aunt are busy, and so he leaves the herd to seek a playmate and finds adventure, instead.

Presents more than twenty nursery rhymes and songs, such as "Incy Wincy Spider, " "Here is the Church, " "Hickory Dickory Dock, " and "The Baby in the Cradle, " with step-by-step photographs showing the accompanying actions.

While a little boy spends a day playing with his older sister, he asks many questions about princesses.

Illustrations and rhyming text follows two animal friends as they play pretend games, ride down a slide, flop in a puddle, and run around a tree.

Using a box for a ship, Bertie and his toy rabbit Small take an imaginary sea journey, braving a crocodile, sharks, and a storm.

In words, pictures, and song, a nineteenth-century hymn continues to delight "'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free." So begins Simple Gifts, a generations-old hymn written by the Shakers of Alfred, Maine. In that simple community, people based their lives on kindness, trust, and the joys that come when we sing and dance together. In this lush volume, acclaimed illustrator Chris Raschka brings this famous song to life,...