Reading level: Ages 4-8

It is raining very, very hard.
Everything is all wet.
There are lots of puddles.
Whose mother would say,
“It’s a beautiful day.
You may go out and play”?

Mallory McDonald has her eye on the perfect purse, but it's too expensive and Mallory's mom is not buying! So Mallory comes up with the perfect plan to get the perfect purse. She'll just start a business! Yet starting a business isn't as easy as it seems. Mallory finally earns enough to buy what she wants. But if her business is such as success, why does Mallory feel like such a failure?
Reading level: Ages 9-12

Gr. 1-3
A book on a library shelf explains its physical attributes (title page, copyright page, spine, covers) before launching into the tale of its transformation from a bunch of wood chips into its present form--with the help of an author, editor, illustrator, paper mill, printing press, and binding machine.
Clear but not overly detailed, the text maintains a light tone, keeping the information accessible to beginning readers and even preschoolers listening to the book read aloud. The final page offers a few questions for class discussion.

K-Gr. 2
The opening image of this title shows a nest of baby squirrels "all pink and helpless," a picture that should enchant young audiences, who are fascinated with animal babies. The book documents a year in a squirrel's life in a first-person narration that imitates a child's voice and cadences: "Mama squirrel feeds you milk and carefully licks you clean. She stays with you day and night."

Kindergarten-Grade 2
At bedtime, Edwin adamantly asserts that he is not sleepy. Each excuse for not settling in (too hungry, too warm, too thirsty) takes him downstairs, where he finds his parents engaged in an unlikely, wildly imaginative scenario...