Kate Banks

A boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.

At the end of the day a little boy falls asleep as his mama reads about a bear hibernating.

A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can been seen with one's eyes closed.

"Forest animals help an injured nightingale survive the winter in a comforting story of friendship and resilience, lyrically told and gorgeously illustrated. As the days grow shorter and the air becomes colder, the spring birds fly south for winter-all except for a nightingale with a broken wing. Unable to fly, the nightingale worries about how to prepare for weather it's never had to experience before. Luckily, the forest animals who are used to...

A baby fox anticipates the time when he can go out alone, but first his parents must teach him the ways of the wilderness.

"While his family readies his townhouse for an approaching storm, boarding up windows and laying in groceries, Noah heads to the back garden, where beetles are burrowing deeper into the bark and mice are stuffing their holes with moss. Quickly and efficiently, Noah sets to work building an ark for them and other backyard creatures--salamanders and toads, snakes and spiders, even brightly colored hummingbirds. Setting out fistfuls of nuts and leaves,...

Afraid to swim across the river because of the hippopotamus there, a turtle takes inspiration from other animals in trying other ways to get across. Features rebuses.

During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the surprising story behind his name and develops a relationship with three loons, living on the lake near his family's New Hampshire cabin, that help him make sense of his life.

Max and his older brother Pete learn about stars, planets, and galaxies when their father takes them to an astronomical observatory.

When he finds out that he was born on Friday the thirteenth, third-grader Howie Bowles becomes convinced that bad luck is causing all his problems.