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What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity, the invisible force that causes objects to attract each other. Here the author has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

When a clumsy armadillo named Lola knocks over a glass pitcher, she sets off a silly chain of events, encountering chaos wherever she goes.

Follows the daily lives of seven children from around the world, including such places as Japan, India, Uganda, and Italy, and discusses how schools, meals, and play can be different or similar in different places in the world.

As Amelie goes to bed, she sets out in search of her dreams, venturing into a surreal world and overcoming cold toes, tangled blankets, and ticking clocks to uncover her favorite dreams.

After swallowing a watermelon seed, a crocodile imagines a scary outcome.

At each stage of her son's growth, including infant, toddler, preteen, teenager, and adult, a mother softly sings of her enduring love for him, until she herself is too old, and her son takes over the song.

There are so many great floats at the town parade: the Young Farmers' Club, the Sports Team, the Outdoor Club. Tractor Mac can't wait to see which one he gets to pull. Then he finds out that his friends have been asked to pull all of the floats he wanted, and all that is left is the Mrs. J.'s Petals and Posies, Ribbons and Roses float. Tractor Mac's friends laugh and say that he will be the cutest float in the parade. But when Tractor Mac sees a picture...

Readers learn about various trucks and how they operate, what they are used for, and how they are maintained.

The kitchen window at her grandparents' house is a magic gateway for one little girl. The story depicts the special relationship she has with her grandparents.

A young boy named Leon pursues a runaway Valentine meant for his true love, Zoey Maloney.