One of Julia Donaldson's classic picture book stories about two monkeys who are as different as night and day. Night Monkey and Day Monkey don't think they have much in common. But when they each spend time in the other's opposite worlds, they learn a lot. And they also learn to be the best of friends. One of the finest rhyming picture book stories from Julia Donaldson, the author behind The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and What The Ladybird Heard. Full of fun and food for thought, Night Monkey, Day Monkey is beautifully drawn by Lucy Richards, one of the most talented illustrators drawing today.

WHICH CAME FIRST? The chicken or the egg? Simpledie-cuts magically present transformation-- from seed to flower,tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly. The acclaimed author of Black? White! Day?Night! and Lemons Are Not Red gives an entirely freshand memorable presentation to the concepts of transformationand creatiity. Seed becomes flower, paint becomes picture,word becomes story--and the commonplace becomes extraordinary aschildren look through and turn the pages of this novel and winningbook.

古代文化将动物视为力量和魔法的象征。各种各样的动物帮助塑造了整个社会和宗教。现在，这本大胆创新的书可以帮助小读者们了解动物对我们的祖先有多么重要。每种文明都以双页展开形式来描绘，上面有引人入胜的素描以及内容丰富的文字。随着读者从一种文化转到另一种文化，他们将了解动物们是如何被敬奉，害怕和神话化的。他们可以探索美洲原住民如何相信鹰能够控制自然，希腊诸神如何将自己变成动物，为什么牛在印度被认为是神圣的，以及狗对因纽特人的意义。从古代波斯和日本到维京和玛雅文明，这本吸引人的书结合了艺术，神话和自然历史，阐明了人与动物之间的重要相互作用。这本书具有启发性和世界性，它将改变孩子们对和我们共享地球的动物的看法。 Ancient cultures regarded animals as emblems of power and magic. An array of animals helped shape entire so

With more than two million copies sold, "Brown Bear, BrownBear, What Do You See?" has opened up a world of learning to ageneration of children. For this edition, created for thetwenty-fifth anniversay in 1992, Bill Martin, Jr., restored histext to its original wording. And Eric Carle created all newpictures--based on the originals, but clearer, brighter, and truerto the colors they represent. Bill Martin has been devoted towriting children's books for more than thirty years. He has a Ph.D.in early childhood education and he has long been a proponent ofusing rhyme and rhythm to teach young children how to read. EricCarle, illustrator of many beloved children's books, was born inthe United States, but spent his early years in Stuttgart, Germany,where he studied art and design at the Academy of Applied Art."Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" was the first book heillustrated.

What The Ladybird Heard "Oink!" said the cats . . . With all the MOOing and HISSingand BAAAing and CLUCKing, the farmyard is full of noise. But whenHefty Hugh and Lanky Len hatch a plot to steal the fine prize cow,it's the quietest animal of all who saves the day! The Princess and the Wizard "The princess may try seven times to escape By changing her colour and changing her shape." But each time Princess Eliza changes – into a blue fish, a yellowchick, a red fox or a black cat – the wicked wizard finds her andsets her another horrible task. Will this plucky princess be ableto outwit him and escape back to the palace in time to cut herbirthday cake? Sharing a Shell The tiny hermit crab loves his new shell. He doesn't want toshare it -- not with a blobby purple anenome and a ticklybristleworm. But life in the rock pool proves tougher than Crabthinks, and soon he finds he needs his new housemates in thisrollicking story of sea, shells and friendship

The author of such delights as The Christmas Ark and TheEnchanted Tapestry joins forces with illustrator Pinkney toresurrect a colorful folktale that captures the unique flavor ofthe American South. A 1989 Caldecott Honor Book.