Eric Carle

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

Poor Hermit Crab! He's outgrown his snug little shell and has to find a new home. And he does, with help from some friends who make the move less scary. Children facing change in their own lives will relate to Hermit Crab's story-and learn a lot about the fascinating world of marine life along the way. Hermit Crab's problem is that he keeps outgrowing things. When he outgrows his first shell-house, he's a bit scared. The next one he finds is big enough...

By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

Adapted from a song, simple text and illustrations describe how each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come and eat it together.

A little cloud becomes all sorts of things--a sheep, an airplane, trees, a hat--before joining other clouds and raining.

When a storm strikes a cargo ship, ten rubber ducks are tossed overboard and swept off in ten different directions. The rubber duck's squeak is reproduced at the end of the book. Based on a factual incident.

An illustrated collection of poems by a variety of authors describing the peculiarities of pets and wild and domestic animals.

An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.

"Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--

Split pages create a matching game in which young children are challenged to pair illustrations with corresponding colors.