Frank Carlson Library

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.

A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.

Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear.

"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--

A cumulative verse describing how a sunflower in a garden blossoms and, with the help of the birds, spreads its seeds to create an entire patch of sunflowers.

"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares ... An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun"--

Three little kittens lose, find, soil, and wash their mittens.

A collection of poems celebrates growing up, from learning new skills and going new places to holding a new sibling and getting big-kid teeth.

Nosy the cat takes a quiet morning stroll which evolves into a full day of adventure and observation and ultimately makes for an unusual day.