Akron Public Library

A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn't have his own color like other animals.

Spookley is ridiculed for his odd shape until his uniqueness saves the day.

A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.

Bear's efforts to keep out visitors to his house are undermined by a very persistent mouse.

Brother gets in trouble when he allows television, his boom box, the telephone, and other distractions to keep him from doing his homework.

Max is a brave cat who hunts mice--if only he knew what a mouse looks like--so he goes around asking the creatures he meets if they are mice.

There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders...

Separated from the man in the yellow hat while at a Christmas tree farm, Curious George ends up at a hospital where he delights the child patients with his own brand of tree trimming.

Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.

Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.