Gyo Fujikawa

Bilingual text describes a family as they sit down to a table filled with good food.

Describes how babies look and act and how they change as they grow. Kids get a great introduction to human growth and development as they observe a baby's antics through the eyes of an older sister. Young readers discover that a newborn sees only in black and white and can taste sweet, bitter, and sour, but naturally prefers sweet. They see how a baby likes to imitate and can even learn from playing peek-a-boo. And readers also find out just when a baby will be ready to do other things. Descubre como bebés miran, actuan y como cambian al crecer.

William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature's most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa's appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment. Among the verses that children will love are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Christmas Bells," Lewis Carroll's "The Melancholy Pig," and Eugene Fields' "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," along with proverbs, limericks, nursery rhymes, and folk songs.

DADDY KNOWS LAST!San Antonio, TexasSeems one Sam Winston returned home today to discover he was a bona fide father... of twins! Was it possible that his bride, Maddie, had taken an unexpected withdrawal from Sam's Maitland Maternity sperm bank deposit? Well, two cooing newborns sure aren't going to lie! Sam's a daddy. And spittin' mad as to why his dear wife didn't let him in on the surprise nine months earlier....

A fearful child wishes she could make her friends know what it feels like to be a "Fraidy cat."

Readers are introduced to a variety of animal friends.

A collection of poems interspersed with stories about fairies, elves, gnomes, and other magical creatures.

A dog suffers from neglect when a cute, tiny kitten enters his life.

Pictures and brief text illustrate the myriad activities that fill the days of young children.

A collection of poems, including "Berry Picking," "The Truth About Dogs," "Conversation with a Kite," and "My Travel Tree."

In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s. Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders.

Nicholas borrows a kite to fly, panics when it blows away, and makes up some outrageous stories to explain its disappearance.

When Jenny can't go out to play on a rainy afternoon, she takes off in a flying saucer with her space elf friend instead.

Young children describe their favorite things to do.