Phyllis Root
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
You might think a farm means fields, tractors, and a barnyard full of animals. But you can plant a farm anywhere you like! A box or a bucket, a boot or a pan almost anything can be turned into a home for green, growing things. Windows, balconies, and front steps all make wonderful spots to start. Who knows what plants you may choose to grow and who will come to see your new garden? Phyllis Root delivers a modern rhyming mantra for anyone hoping to...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four children set off into the woods to find a moose. An ear-tickling, eye-teasing romp for little listeners, led by an award-winning author and illustrator. Do you really, really want to see a moose - a long-leggy moose - a branchy-antler, dinner-diving, bulgy-nose moose? Spurred by Phyllis Root's sing-songy text and Randy Cecil's buoyant illustrations, this hunt for an elusive moose through woods, swamps, bushes, and hills is just as fun as the...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Once covering almost 40 percent of the United States, native prairie is today one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world. Plant a Pocket of Prairie teaches children how changes in one part of the system affect every other part: when prairie plants are destroyed, the animals who eat those plants and live on or around them are harmed as well. Root shows what happens when we work to restore the prairies, encouraging readers to "plant a pocket...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lilly, a worrier who greatly fears the sea, leaves the home of her librarian great-uncle and sets out with an old woman pirate to rescue her parents, who were shipwrecked while seeking the elusive frangipani fruit fly on an uncharted island.
11) One duck stuck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The reader is invited to count the animals and plants that live on or in Minnesota's bogs, marshes, rivers, lakes, prairies, and woods. Includes facts on the state's ecosystems and the plants and animals that make their homes there.
14) Scrawny cat
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A lost, lonely, and scrawny cat, hungry and afraid, unexpectedly meets someone who takes him in and loves him.
18) Hey, Tabby Cat!
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Four brief stories, using simple words, tell about Tabby Cat's adventures.
19) Mouse goes out
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
As the seasons change, Mouse tries fishing, making a snowman, swimming, and camping.