Kate Banks

A boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.

"Forest animals help an injured nightingale survive the winter in a comforting story of friendship and resilience, lyrically told and gorgeously illustrated. As the days grow shorter and the air becomes colder, the spring birds fly south for winter--all except for a nightingale with a broken wing. Unable to fly, the nightingale worries about how to prepare for weather it's never had to experience before. Luckily, the forest animals who are used to...

A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can been seen with one's eyes closed.

At the end of the day a little boy falls asleep as his mama reads about a bear hibernating.

A baby fox anticipates the time when he can go out alone, but first his parents must teach him the ways of the wilderness.

Alex wants to be a "night worker" like his father who goes to work at a construction site after Alex goes to bed.

When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

Three eraserheads that live with a boy in the land of pencils, paper, rulers, numbers, letters, and drawings become trapped in one of his pictures while trying to correct mistakes.

Papa prepares dinner and the boys set the table as they, the dog, and the cat eagerly await Mama's return home after work.

After his owner dies, a cat wanders across the countryside of France, unable to forget the home he had in the stone house by the edge of the sea.