Aliki

Retells the wandering of John Chapman whose devotion to planting apple trees made him a legendary figure in American history.

What is a fossil? Sometimes it's the imprint of an ancient leaf in a rock. Sometimes it's a woolly mammoth, frozen for thousands of years in the icy ground. Sometimes it's the skeleton of a stegosaurus that has turned to stone. A fossil is anything that has been preserved, one way or another, that tells about life on Earth. But, you can make a fossil, too-something to be discovered a million years from now, and this book will tell you how.

Describes the parts of the hand and all the things our hands help us to do.

Ten years of faithful service to a rich man earns Yannis only three pieces of gold which he immediately gives back to the rich man in return for advice that proves to be of greater value.

Pictures, dialogs, poems, and stories portray various emotions we all feel: jealousy, sadness, fear, anger, joy, love, and others.

Describes human growth and how the different parts of the body change as it grows.

Describes the relationship of a grandfather and his granddaughter from her birth to his death.

Describes the stages in making a book, starting with the writing of the manuscript and the drawing of the pictures, and explaining all the technical processes leading to printed and bound copies.

A little boy who loves pushing buttons of all kinds ends up with such a sore finger that he must play with other things.