Melissa Sweet

While a little girl who loves red--and loves to dilly-dally--stops to paint a picture on the way to visit her grandmother, her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.

From sticky breakfast kisses to playful "gotcha" kisses to snuggly bedtime kisses, there's a new kiss for each moment of the day. The best, sweetest kisses of all are those you share every day--with your very own kissaroo!

Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.

Traces the story of a 1930s female adventurer who brought America its first panda bear, describing how she inherited a seemingly impossible expedition from her explorer husband and defied period conventions to travel up the Yangtze River and into the wilderness to bring back an adorable panda cub she named Su Lin, which means "a little bit of something cute."

In the winter of 1909, a brave girl named Clara Lemlich, only five feet tall, picketed for workers' rights. She arrived in America along with hundreds of other immigrants from eastern Europe, hardly speaking any English. But instead of her father being hired, it's Clara the factories want, and off she goes to make women's clothing in a garment factory from dawn till dusk. The conditions are appalling: "If you prick your finger and bleed on the cloth,...

With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.

In 1894, Charlotte records in a journal her impressions of a family trip from Giverney, France to New York, where her father's paintings will be featured in an exhibition. Includes biographical sketches of painters and reproductions of artworks.

In rhyming verse, a little girl describes places where animals like to sleep, from seals snoozing on ice to spiders in the kitchen clock, as well as her favorite place, on grandma's lap.

Sleepy letters of the alphabet get ready for bed.