Second-grader Emily's memorable day includes a new school bus, a forgotten lunch bag, a special cafeteria meal, and a new friendship.

A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour.

In a story where almost everything is black and white, Dylan, a dalmatian, escapes from his home and becomes involved in a soccer game between penguins and skunks.

"In this beginning reader graphic novel, the two show how much fun opposites can have together. They try to become superheroes, to travel back in time, to study turtles, and to become famous. Robot is the practical one while Monkey has the creative ideas. The two combine for a lot of zany humor and sweet friendship"--

Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down an old, old road, looking backwards from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals.

A child paints with an artist friend who sees and paints only whales.

An evocation of the beauty and power of the Alaskan tundra and the animals and people who live there.

Present-day visitors describe what they see when they visit the pueblos where the Anasazi lived long ago.

As she and a friend are loading a wagon with cookies and fans they have made, a young girl repeats the story of a wondrous Rolling Store that used to come to the country where Granddaddy lived when he was young.