Lois Ehlert

A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden. This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth.

Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars and finally butterflies.

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

Lois Ehlert uses watercolor collage and pieces of actual seeds, fabric, wire, and roots in this innovative and rich introduction to the life of a tree. A special glossary explains how roots absorb nutrients, what photosynthesis is, how sap circulates, and other facts about trees.

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

A collection of poems about animal camouflage and adornment.

On a cold, snowy night, all is quiet throughout the house except for a small, michievous mouse.

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie

When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home