Jen Corace

Little Hoot wants to go to bed early, like all of his friends do, and he is hopping mad when Mama and Papa Owl insist that he stay up late and play.

In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.

When an orange balloon floats overhead, Mathilda the sheep realizes she can be more than she is, and sets out to convince the rest of the flock that anything is possible.

Some of Charles Darwin's children help him study bumblebees at their home.

First, Nanda's entire world is the circle of her mother's arms but as she grows, she sees the wonder of whirligigs, fractals in the snow, and even the circle of the Earth, itself.

House has always loved the people inside. When they move out, House's halls grow quiet, his windows dark. He hopes with all his shingles that there will be other inhabitants and joys to discover. As generations pass, House experiences new people and traditions and learns that love can come in many forms.

How would a clock, nightlight, or teddy bear say good night? In this enchanting poetry collection, Lee Bennett Hopkins and thirteen other poets imagine the wishes whispering through a young girl's bedroom as she falls asleep. The bookshelf's stories curl through her head, the pillow transforms into a hot air balloon, the rocking horse waits expectantly for tomorrow's adventures. Stunning gouache illustrations by Jen Corace offer new details to discover...

A picture book biography of the English author who "didn't have much opportunity to go to school but [who] read everything she could, including all the books in her father's study. And before long, she began to write her own stories, filled with funny, clever, and inventive characters"--Amazon.com.

From the creators of Little Pea and Little Hoot comes this tidy tale of a decidedly different pig. Little Oink is a neat little fellow. Clean, clean, clean, that's all he wants to do. But Mama and Papa won't have it! They say in order to be a proper pig, he has to learn to make a proper mess. "Don't come out until your room is a pigsty," says Papa Pig. "I won't have any child of mine going out looking so neat and clean. It's just not acceptable,"...