In this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in 16 enchanting poems. It₂ a doggie delight! These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will be your best friend?

Presents twenty-one short poems about such insects as the inchworm, termite, cricket, and ladybug.

When his new sled won't work and his old one isn't ready, Santa Claus sets out on foot to deliver the presents but that is only the beginning of his troubles.

Classic poems about cats are matched with works of art from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.