Lois Ehlert

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

A rascally squirrel has an indoor adventure in a city apartment.

A traditional Mayan tale which reveals how the cuckoo lost her beautiful feathers.

An adaptation of the Peruvian folktale in which Fox and Mole try to climb to the moon on a rope woven of grass.

When the neighborhood cat tries to crash the mice's harvest party, the mice have a plan to scare the intruder away.

After digging holes and munching on crawly bugs, a chubby mole settles in her cozy burrow for winter. Includes glossary identifying all of the different worms, caterpillars, moths, and butterflies included in the illustrations.

Introduces pattern recognition as a sock searches the house for its lost mate.

An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.