Early & Emergent Readers

A distant marching band grows larger and louder as it nears and then softer and smaller as it goes away again.

During a busy day at the construction site, the workers use a variety of machines to knock down a building and begin constructing a new one.

My car has wheels. My car has gas. The horn goes beep. Come take a ride.

A little boy tells the story of what his dad does in his long day of driving a truck.

A little boy loves all kinds of bugs, from spiky spiny bugs to pretty spotty bugs. But the best bugs are hairy bugs.

Follow Billy and Milly through thirteen adventures in these funny and simple short stories.

Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

Big dogs, small dogs, stripy dogs, spotty dogs. There are so many different kinds of dogs. How can anyone pick one type of dog to love the most?

What will baby's first word be? Hello? Sun? Dog? Cat? Cow? Owl?

A box is just a box . . . unless it's not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows.

An imaginative young pig shows some of the many things that a stick can be.

Nana helps teach her toddler granddaughter to share.

A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder with each outing.

Mouse, Pig, Cow, and Duck are playing a carefree game of ball when (horror of horrors!) their ball gets kicked into . . . THE DOGHOUSE.

At night, a host of woodland creatures plays with a child's red sled.

During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.

An exuberant cat introduces readers to her friends.

Piggie can't wait to show Gerald her brand new toy, but will an accidentally broken toy accidentally break a friendship?

Gerald and Piggie want to play a game and surprise each other, but the biggest surprise is the one they least expect.

Gerald is down in the dumps. Piggie is determined to cheer him up but finds after many tries that it only takes the simplest thing to change Gerald's mood.

Cat's animal friends make many different sounds.

These unique, interactive early-reading books invite children to flip the pages and presto-change-o! a different word and picture appear.

While preparing for bedtime, a little girl and her dog note all the different kinds of lights that brighten up the night, from headlights to moonlight.

A trip to the park with Daddy is full of joyful opportunities to climb, to jump, to swing, to be lifted . . . Up!

Explores concepts of color, shape, and food, using only five simple words, as a bear juggles and plays.

Earl and Pearl do not want Chicken's help in the garden, until a swarm of grasshoppers arrives and her true talent shines.

In a series of delightfully imaginary achievements, "nobody's mouse" transforms himself into the beloved hero of his mother, father, sister, and brand-new baby brother.

The circle dogs live in a big, square house with a big, square yard. See the dogs? See the circles? Mama calls them pooches. Papa calls them hounds.

Ivy loves to give gifts, even though she doesn't always give the right present to the right person.

Excited about their trip to the zoo, a young girl and her stuffed monkey delight in mimicking all the animals they see.

WHICH CAME FIRST? The chicken or the egg?

As three dust bunnies, Ed, Ned, and Ted, are demonstrating how much they love to rhyme, a fourth, Bob, is trying to warn them of approaching danger.

A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words.

Rumor has it that Mrs. Farmer is making chicken soup, so the chickens are on the run except for poor Little Chickie, who has a bad cold and her sneezes won't let her hide.

A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home.

Many things happen in the life of a car: it's built, sold, driven, washed . . . sometimes it even crashes!