Lois Ehlert

When the neighborhood cat tries to crash the mice's harvest party, the mice have a plan to scare the intruder away.

The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark," and "wolf."

Some children create a family out of snow. Includes labeled pictures of all the items they use, as well as information about how snow is formed. Pull on your mittens and head outside with Lois Ehlert for a snowball day! Grab some snow and start rolling. With a few found objects, like buttons and fabric and seeds, and a little imagination, you can create a whole family out of snow. Ehlert uses collages of cut paper and vibrant, textured objects to...

An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.

A child describes the growth of a maple tree from seed to sapling.

An adaptation of the Peruvian folktale in which Fox and Mole try to climb to the moon on a rope woven of grass.

Alphabet letters and bold, graphic images of fruits and vegetables come together in this book of pun-filled rebuses about love and friendship.

An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.

In a rhythmic alphabet chant, all the letters race one another up the coconut tree.

Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.