George Shannon

It's easy to take a cookie out of the cookie jar: just reach in. But how does it get in there in the first place? It's more complicated than you might think. Someone has to milk the cow, grow the wheat, harvest the sugar cane, everyone has a special job to do to make that cookie possible. In “Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?”, George Shannon and Julie Paschkis take us on a delicious cookie journey, showing how many hands work together so...

Presents a collection of eighteen brief folktales in which the reader is asked to explain how the folk character lied and told the truth at the same time.

Fifteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

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When a mean dog blocks the path to the garden where a delicious breakfast awaits, Little Chick shows her family how brave and clever she is.

A collection of short poems and riddles about planting seeds, watching garden vegetables dance, and growing jack-o-lanterns.

Upset that he has forgotten a valentine for his friend Mole, Squirrel starts to make a fancy card but discovers a better gift.