Paul Meisel

Selig, the hatmaker, creates beautiful hats with the help of his wife and daughter Zara. When he runs out of feathers, Selig travels all over the world looking for more feathers. Zara, looking at the empty display window in the shop, uses flowers and papier-mache animals and fruit to make hats that the customers love.

One happy mutt is digging up dirt when he is joined by his equally joyful friends. They're certainly not expecting to encounter groundhogs, mice, moles, bears, and pirates! New readers will delight in this joyful story with its surprise climax. The characters have energy and charm that will delight young children as they embark on a satisfying first-time reading adventure.

"Told in diary form, My Stinky Summer by S. Bug introduces readers to the stinkbug's life cycle and survival habits"--

A dog stays up all night, watching the moon and some bats, and looks forward to the morning when his boy will wake up and feed him breakfast.

In this introduction to potty training, animals demonstrate where they poop. Includes facts about animal feces.

The life cycle of a praying mantis. --

"In this fresh and funny picture book from Geisel Honor-winning author-illustrator Paul Meisel, a lonely bat thinks he has found a perfect home until he discovers that it's already inhabited by a persnickety squirrel. Since each is asleep during the other's waking hours, the two begin exchanging notes. With these notes, Squirrel does her best to oust her unwelcome guest, but Bat misunderstands and thinks Squirrel is happy to have a new friend. This...

"Narrative non-fiction, in journal form, relates the first year in the life of an Eastern bluebird."--

After taking a walk on Christmas Eve while their freshly baked gingerbread cools, Papa, Mama, and Baby Bear arrive home to encounter another "trespasser," who does not have golden hair but wears a red suit and leaves presents. Someone has eaten the three bears' gingerbread cookies. Someone has sat in their chairs and slept in their beds too! The intruder has left clothing all over the house-a woolly mitten, a black boot, and a red coat. Who could...

Examines the different parts of the body and how they work, including the muscles, digestive organs, and lungs.