Deborah Freedman

The innocent chicken just wants to help, but things get worse and worse - and bluer and bluer - the more she tries. Playing with colors and perspective, and using minimal text, this richly layered story reveals new things to see and laugh about with each reading. This title includes Read-Along subtities.

Today, Fish's story (about pirates!) is too grand to simply be told, Fish wants to show Snail. But that would mean leaving the familiar world of their book - a scary prospect for Snail, who would rather stay safely at home and pretend to be kittens. Fish scoffs that cats are boring, Snail snaps back. Is this book too small for the two feuding friends? Could this be THE END of The Story of Fish and Snail?

"Carl is an earthworm. He spends his days happily tunneling in the soil until a field mouse asks him a simple question that stops him short: "Why?" Carl's quest takes him on an adventure to meet all the animals of the forest, each of whom seems to know exactly what they were put on this earth to do, unlike the curious Carl. But it's not until the world around him has changed that Carl begins to realize everyone, no matter how small, makes a big difference...

An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.

Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.

Takes a look at change, from the innocent and everyday to the gigantic and irreversible, as well as how some things remain the same.--Provided by the publisher.

Fastidious Mouse has one idea about how to tell a story. Free-spirited Frog has another. What happens when Frog crashes into Mouse's story with some wild ideas? Chaos!...followed by the discovery that working together means being willing to compromise - and that listening to one another can lead to the most beautiful stories of all.