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Lois Ehlert
Don’t think dog’s can talk? Meet Ralph. Featuring playful dimensional collageillustrations and a funny and sweet call-and-response text, RRRalph is sureto get little ones laughing (and talking to their dogs)…
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Bold and exuberant pictures show the planting of a family garden. Bulbs, seeds, and seedlings grow into a brilliant rainbow of colorful flowers that are picked and carried home. And…
In this work of extraordinary visual splendor ( Publishers Weekly ), Ehlertpresents the misadventures of a city squirrel, who sneaks inside an apartmentwindow. Plants, birds, and insects are pictured and…
For use in schools and libraries only. While teaching upper- and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world. A glossary at the end provides…
Garden-fresh vegetables are utilized in the illustrations of this Halloween story, in which mice are looking forward to their annual Halloween-night feast. Scary Cat has not been invited to the…
Ehlert’s award-winning picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young is now available as a bilingual board book, written in both English and Spanish. Full color.
Simple text and brilliantly colored cut-paper illustrations take children into a big top of circus excitement starring leaping lizards, marching snakes, whistling parrots, and the tumbling Zucchini Brothers.
An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.
In this colorful die-cut picture book by award-winning author Lois Ehlert, a child thanks the world for all of nature’s wonders.
A colorful favorite makes its lap-sized debut!
In this comapnion book to Color Zoo children can find farm animals hiding in familiar colours and shapes as they turn the pages. A final section views the shapes and…
This ALA Notable Children’s Book shares a magical folktale–in Spanish and English–about Fox and Mole who go to the moon with a little help from their friends. Full color.
"A child describes the growth of a maple tree from seed to sapling"--
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A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.
Now toddlers can dive into counting with this board book edition of one of Ehlert’s most popular books. Includes cutout fish eyes to touch and an energetic fish friend to…
A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup. Big Books (Oversize Paperbacks)
A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.
Ride the wind and drift east with Leaf Man in this autumnal classic by Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Lois Ehlert, now available as a board book, perfect for young readers returning…
What kind of day is it when thick snow is falling everywhere? Why, it’s a glorious snowball day, of course! The author of Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf invites readers to…
Exuberant pictures and simple text send children on a fun backyard adventure as a sneaky cat tries to catch tasty birds for lunch. A wonderful introduction to bird-watching, this book…
In this Mexican folktale, the beautiful Cuckoo is lazy and never does her share of the work–that is until a field fire threatens the season’s seed crop. Cuckoo is the…
Young children will enjoy learning about colors and flowers with this new edition of one of Ehlert’s most popular titles in a brand-new format. Full color.
After planting, watering, and tending to their plants all season long, a loving father and his child harvest the produce from their garden in order to prepare an extra-special pot…
A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous…
An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.
This seasonal classic is now in a board book edition that can inspire even the youngest snowman-builders. Full-color illustrations.
While teaching uppercase and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert also introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world. A glossary at the end provides interesting facts about each plant. Full-color…
A counting book depicting the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself.
In brightly-colored collage illustrations, a father and child share the simple joys of planting, watering, and watching seeds grow in their garden. Then they cook them all up into a…
A child describes the growth of a maple tree from seed to sapling.
Nine animals, nine shapes, and sixteen shades of color make this glorious zoo a visual treat for little ones to explore. As readers turn each die-cut page, they can watch…
Features a seies of cutouts stacked so thst with each page turn, a layer is removed to reveal yet another picture of an animal.
On a cold, snowy night, all is quiet throughout the house except for a small, michievous mouse.
The question of where butterflies come from is answered with simple rhyming text and color-drenched collages that provide facts on flowers and butterfly identification tips. Full-color illustrations.
