Brian Floca

It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The story comes alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...

"An ode to the essential workers keeping the country operating during the Covid-19 pandemic"--

Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.

When her class goes ape on a school visit to the Natural History Museum, a wily teacher tells the tale of a rambunctious former classmate of her own who found himself left behind in the museum after dark.

An adventure seeking Ragweed reluctantly helps an innocent but mischievous baby raccoon reunite with his mother and rescues a deer mouse trapped inside a cage.

Unhappy queen-in-training Cora receives a pet crocodile from her fairy godmother, which disrupts her mundane daily routine.

Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.

Once a year, every year, the seven uncles gather. Shaggy coats/ scarves of red/ Two tall antlers/ on each head. Is it their niece they've come to see? Surely, yes. Is it their job they've come to do? Most definitely. And is she eager to join in the fun? Absolutely!

When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.

Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.