Elisa Kleven

Lizzy is scared to start school, so she makes a doll out of an apple from her favorite tree to take with her on the first day and keep her company. Includes instructions for making an apple doll.

Stanley the elephant, who's very clumsy, accidentally smashes Mouse's house, then promises to try to make a new one.

After she chooses a cute dog piñata for her birthday party, Clara pretends it is her pet and she doesn't want it to get broken.

While looking for a birthday gift for their owner, the paper princess and her dog travel on a kite, a tumbleweed, and a sailboat, and end up in a surprising place.

While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.

Rhyming verses introduce the letters of the alphabet and the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. Christmas words, presented in alphabetical order and accompanied by rhyming couplets, tell the story of the Nativity and teach the alphabet.

A bilingual collection of songs and rhymes that have accompaning hand and body motions.

Young children usually think of their home as the structure in which they live. In Our Big Home, the author and illustrator present a much larger vision of home as the planet Earth. Linda Glaser's beautiful poem is a wonderful way to gently lead children toward the all-important understanding of caring for our environment. In her lyrical, child-oriented style, she presents the idea that our big home is shared not only with all people but with all...