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.

"Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--

By following the instructions in the coded message, Tim finds his birthday present.

A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish.

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.

Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come and eat it up.

"Ducks overboard!" shouts the captain, as a giant wave washes a box of 10 little rubber ducks off his cargo ship and into the sea. One drifts west, where a friendly dolphin jumps over it. A whale sings to another. But as the sun sets, the 10th little rubber duck is left all alone, bobbing helplessly on the big wide sea. Following the little ducks as they float to all parts of the globe, young explorers can see for themselves the meanings of directional...

Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals. The illustrations are designed to demonstrate the concept of complementary colors.

After his aunt makes him an apron just like his uncle's, a young boy helps him plaster the chimney.