Rhyming text presents traditions used to celebrate the Day of the Dead. Rhyming text presents traditions used to celebrate the Day of the Dead. Graveyard skeletons shake, rattle, and roll in this spirited Day of the Dead celebration featuring bold and colorful cut-paper illustrations. A two-page illustrated afterword gives factual information about el Dia de los Muertos, the reverent but fun celebration honoring relatives who have passed on, and...

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

On Christmas Eve, Ollie and the other goslings anxiously await the arrival of Father Christmas Goose.

A little princess decides that two birthdays would be better than one, and three better than two, until every day becomes her birthday, but she soon realizes that the more birthdays she has, the less special they are.

A pumpkin seed tries unsuccessfully to be scary until it grows into a pumpkin and Halloween arrives.

Late one night, Slipper the cat awakens to find a furry-booted man in her home and, like any curious cat would, climbs into his big red sack.

At Christmas time, Grandma Mouse shares a story of a little girl who peeks at all of her gifts the night before Christmas Eve, then feels terrible about what she has done.

Small Camel is given the honor to carry a very important package on a journey, as his master Balthazar, a wise man, goes in search of Baby Jesus.

During the Christmas season, a young boy and his family take a whirlwind road trip across the United States, visiting relatives from Alaska to Maine.

"The creators of the social media sensation #IMomSoHard, Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, know what it means to be a M.O.M.--the Meanest Of Meanies! It's cheering the loudest at the spelling bee, making crazy dinners because someone is a "picky eater," bath time (enough said?), and only reading four books at bedtime when someone has piled up about eighty-two of them. Because the truth is that when you're a M.O.M. being mean . . . means . . . I love...