Melissa Sweet

While a little girl who loves red--and loves to dilly-dally--stops to paint a picture on the way to visit her grandmother, her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.

Pinky, Rex, and Amanda plot revenge on the bad-tempered old woman who lives across the street, until Pinky realizes that she is lonely and needs new friends.

Sleepy letters of the alphabet get ready for bed.

Rhyming text describes many different kinds of hugs.

Moonlight the cat loves everything about Halloween, from pumpkins to children to candy.

Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.

Rhyming text describes many different kinds of kisses.

Illustrated verses for this traditional English folk song present different animals tending to their crops and harvesting them for a Christmas feast.

"From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention--and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them--poems just waiting to be written down."--

In this cumulative nursery rhyme and folk song, a parade forms when several farm animals join a boy and his apple wagon.