Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.

Benny spots a big cardboard box with a note taped to it saying, "Do Not Open." His imagination runs wild, and it's almost too much for a curious boy to bear. He thinks about all of the things, good and bad, that could be inside that box.

"When Kevin and his friends discover a mysterious ladder, everyone wants to know what is at the top, and who gets to find out first"--

Walking his dog at dusk, a boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in the lit windows along his route through the neighborhood.

Elbert, one of five mechanical bears in the town's old clock tower, has disrupted the proper operation of the clock for the last time, and he is given twenty-four hours to assuage his curiousity about the world below before he will be allowed back in the clock tower.

On a walk through the forest, a child celebrates the potential of an acorn, a caterpillar, and other things he can hold in the palm of his hand--which he knows will turn into some wonderful.

"Esther the fairy doesn't believe in magic. But fairies are all about magic, despite Esther's best efforts to reveal the science of their world. This time around, though, she's got her fairy pals Clover and Fig, along with trusty sidekick Albert the bird, to help create a more science-oriented entry for their school's "Magic Fair" -- Pixieville's magical answer to a science fair, which has never gone well for Esther before. When the local pond disappears,...

A curious owl and a friendly bug ask questions that lead them on a grand adventure away from--and back to--their home tree.

Lively illustrations portray the many different instances at which a little elephant...might hear no and the big emotions that often precede and follow the word. Along the way, young readers will learn that no matter what no an elephant faces, instead of answering with flaring ears and a steaming trunk, they may use another word: why?