Christian Robinson

Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.

Leo is a friendly house ghost--but when a family moves into his house, and tries to get rid of him, he leaves and roams the city looking for a friend.

"During the first snowy day of winter, five little penguins bundle up and venture outside to play"--

Offers encouragement and supplies, from a snack and a blanket to a map for finding the way home, to a loved one who may be facing a new challenge.

In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself....

When they find a dead bird, a group of children bury it in the woods, sing a song to it, and put flowers on the grave.

"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world...Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead—to stories." --publisher's website.

"It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself"--

A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family meet one day in the park.

As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.