Eric Carle

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.

A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.

By order of the Duke, Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.

A newly hatched cricket has a problem getting his wings to chirp. 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. The cricket's sound is reproduced at the end of the book. Annotation. A small cricket hatches "one warm day," and the other insects greet him. Though the little guy wants very much to respond, nothing happens when he rubs his wings together. Finally, as night...

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

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.

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

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.

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.

An illustrated collection of poems by a variety of authors describing the peculiarities of pets and wild and domestic animals.