Bob Shea

Ballet Cat and her friend Butter Bear have practiced a dance to perform for an audience, but Butter Bear will need a lot of encouragement to try the super high leaps.

Fearless Dinosaur takes on new challenges as he starts preschool, from meeting new friends to pasting glitter and googly eyes, but one task requires assistance from everyone.

Concerned about losing friends during the first week of school, Unicorn upgrades his fabulousness.

"A lazy alligator comes up with a plan to lure his prey by opening up a restaurant for birds--until he realizes that birds are even better as friends"--

"With humor and sympathy, Bob Shea looks at the chaos of life with a baby as amiably narrated by the new arrival. Repeating the mantra (and blithe explanation) "because I am a baby," the tiny narrator leads us through scenes of exhaustion, grumpiness, squishy diapers, spilled milk, cowering kittens, and chubby overfed pups (oopsie!). Playing against the simple, matter-of-fact text are freewheeling illustrations of mess and mayhem, in which the grown-ups'...

Dinosaur spends a day "helping" his mother, from the time he roars to awaken her until their final contest at bedtime.

An overly confident cheetah challenges a pack of clever kittens to a race.

A boastful shark is not afraid of anything, which impresses his underwater friends until they ask about spiders.

"Little Dinosaur gets ready for Christmas"--

Three pups must learn to drive trucks that are not their own to finish their task before snack time.