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This book documents the work of a young girl, Maria Merian, who lived during the Middle Ages and disproved the theory of spontaneous generation by observing caterpillars as they spun cocoons and emerged as butterflies and moths in the spring.
This book illustrates the evolution of an imaginary European city from the Stone Age to the distant future.
This book explores children’s earliest existential queries.
Crystal had lived in the garden for many years and she was growing old–Zelda was just starting out in life and though she was young, she and Crystal were best friends, but one day Crystal was not in the garden, she had died; in this gentle, beautifully illustrated story, children learn, with Zelda, that true friendship is a gift that doesn’t die.
A giraffe causes a sensation when he walks 500 miles to Paris.
One day Elephant filled the bathtub with water and got in. There was still plenty of room, so Cat climbed in too. Then Baby Giraffe dropped in. Then Bear and Alligator and Cow … and . . .
Once there was a little fox who thought he was too smart for school. After all, he thought, foxes are clever already. A fox like himself could certainly outwit a chicken.
When the king charges the miller’s beautififul daughter with spinning straw into gold she makes an ill-advised deal with the cunning Rumpelstiltskin.
An old woman is at her wits end when a troop of fairies won’t stop cleaning her house
It’s Bertie’s birthday, and he’s going to have a birthday party! There’s a birthday cake to be made, and decorations to be hung, and games to be played, and best of all, presents to be opened. But where is Daddy’s present? Daddy has hidden it so well, he cannot find it himself.