Jane Yolen

A shy and quiet boy wanders his new home town, listening to the birds, until he meets a fellow bird lover and friend.

"This appealingly icky poetry collection presents animals that suck-quite literally! From the mosquito to the elephant to the lamprey, discover how and why these animals sip, slurp, and suck"--

Explains how young dinosaurs should behave during a typical school day.

It is not always easy for a dinosaur to learn how to be kind, but with a liitle practice, and keeping other people firmly in mind, he can become a one-of-a-kind, very kind dinosaur.

A creative nonfiction account of a young Emily Dickinson using scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and sharing it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.

Illustrations and rhyming text explore some of the things that dinosaurs might do when they are angry--and how they should control their tempers.

Interrupting Cow feels lonely because her barnyard friends are tired of her jokes, but when he meets an old rooster across the long, gray road, things change.

Caldecott honor book: 1968.