Eric Carle

By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

A young boy encounters all sorts of cats while searching for the one he lost.

A simple introduction to the meaning of numbers and sets as a rooster, on his way to see the world, is joined by fourteen animals along the way.

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

When his friend moves away, a boy sets out on a journey to find her.

A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. Cutouts along the edges of the pages display various animals and colors.

A little cloud becomes all sorts of things--sheep, an airplane, trees, a hat--before joining other clouds and raining.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself, goes to sleep, and awakens as a beautiful, colorful butterfly.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.

An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.