"A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all."

Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn.

Children's picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? In seven chapters, this book covers the key stages of conceiving a narrative, creating a visual language and developing storyboards and design of a picturebook. The book includes interviews with leading children's picturebook...

Doggedly digging up his roots, Clifford, the big red dog, visits his city-dwelling mother, his brother, who works at a fire station, his sister, a seeing-eye dog, and his second sister, a farm dog.

Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears, click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes.

Eight-year-old Watl'kina steals out at night to watch the masked dancers at a secret Potlatch.