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.

Sleepy letters of the alphabet get ready for bed.

Examines the life of Peter Mark Roget and his invention of the thesaurus.

An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.

"An introduction to the life and art of Judith Scott, a renowned artist"--

With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.

As Little Kangaroo imagines becoming a tree, a house, a book, a teddy bear, and more, Mama tells how she will continue to love and care for her "little one."