Wendell Minor

When Halloween comes around, pumpkins are turned into pumpkin heads of different kinds and greet trick-or-treaters.

"Imagine a huge pumpkin. Now think even bigger! Every year, giant pumpkins take home blue ribbons at fairs across the country. People even carve the most enormous ones into racing boats. But what's next? Why not think really big?" --

Illustrations painted on hand-carved replicas of tavern signs introduce readers to the people, places, and events that were a part of the American Revolution and that gave birth to our nation.

Christmas trees come in all shapes and sizes and can be found in almost any setting, but there is only one "best" Christmas tree.

In the icy waters of the Pacific, a massive humpback whale unexpectedly finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen. When a rescue boat and a convoy of divers arrive to help the struggling humpback, a realistic and moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds.

Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.

I Walked on the Moon. This is my journey. It didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. It began the day I was born -- Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., whom everyone called Buzz. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible -- from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the...

In the glow of a full January moon, it is the great horned owl who first senses that it is the beginning of spring. With the first full moon-the moon of beginnings-the owl starts his annual courtship. In Thirteen Moons-a spellbinding wildlife series-Newbery Award-winning author Jean Craighead George has captured thirteen North American animals in their natural environments and chronicled their fight for survival. From the lush Florida Everglades to...

Fourteen poems with mid-western themes or settings.