Lois Ehlert

Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.

The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark," and "wolf."

An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the backyard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.

A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. On die-cut pages.

A counting book depicting the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself.

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

"Through rhyme and mixed-media collage illustrations, 'rain fish'--the varied, colorful, and unique little collections of materials that float along on streams of rain water during storms--come to life"--

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

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

A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.