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In this book without words, Mr. Crocodile gets up every morning and carefully gets ready for work--but just what is his job?

"In this wordless picture book, a bird emerges after winter to find the world has gone quiet. As she settles on a tree outside an apartment building, its residents notice her through their windows and find hope in her resilience and the continued rhythms of nature."--

The vole brothers encounter trouble when a passing pigeon drops a splat on them.

Told in two voices, a boy who wants a dog more than anything and an abandoned dog looking for a forever home find each other. Told without words, we follow a boy who wants a dog more than anything. Meanwhile, an abandoned dog is looking for a forever home. And that dog has his eye on our boy! -- adapted from jacket

"In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and clever, bending nature itself to their will and their ambition:...

In this story without words, a boy and his dog play inside and outside of their home.

"One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village. Chased away by the grown ups, Fox takes shelter in a greenhouse. A little boy sees this from his window. Without hesitating, he brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox. His gift is noticed and the night becomes a garden of new life, nourished by compassion and kindness. Princesse Camcam's cut-paper illustrations, along with the beautiful lighting of the sets...

Originally created as a series of animated cartoons broadcast on youtube.com, Simon's cat off to the vet, is a collection of drawings by London animator Simon Tofield featuring his cat Simon.

Good friends Owly and Wormy are disappointed when their new plant attracts fat, green, bug-like things, instead of butterflies, until a metamorphosis occurs.

Inspired by Rogério Coelho's family vacation on a Brazilian coastal village in winter, the characters of the old man and the young boy popped into his imagination and compelled him to create a story that took him almost seven years to complete. An old man and a seagull live on a deserted island. A young boy and his cat are lonely in a city. Between them, in a stoppered bottle, floats a piece of paper on which the man draws a flying boat and the boy...