As leaves fall from their trees, animals huddle against the cold, and frost creep across windows, everyone knows - winter is on its way! Join a brother and sister as they explore nature and take a stroll through their twinkling town, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In a series of conversations with everything from the setting sun to curious deer, they say goodbye to autumn and welcome the glorious first snow of winter.

Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.

Beautiful illustration and simple text describes the plant life cycle of a sunflower seed to a mature plant, which flowers and releases it's own seed to begin the life cycle again.

Legend has it that every Fourth of July, while fireworks light up the sky over Vineyard Sound on Cape Cod, carousel horses set out to visit all the sites around town.3--Carousel of Light website.

Young Peter celebrated the magic and boundless possibilities of the very first snowfall.

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes. Literature of Delight. It's every child's wish to have all that dough but Brittain's young hero not only feels his wish has been fulfilled, but overkilled, when literally all the money in the world is at his disposal. An exaggerated stomp through fantasyland, to be sure, but brightly funny. Literature of Delight. This is a very funny version of a Ukrainian folktale about...

Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.

Encourages the reader to exercise by following the movements of various animals; presented in a question and answer format.

A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.

Maria and her family visit an apple orchard and pick apples. Then it's time to turn the apples into applesauce! Every year they use the special pot that has been in the family for generations to make applesauce. First they wash the apples. Then Grandma cuts them into quarters. Follow each step in the process as everyone helps to make delicious applesauce!