Wendell Minor

"When Halloween comes around, pumpkins are turned into pumpkin heads of different kinds and greet trick-or-treaters." --

Classic Americana and patriotism meet in this picture book version of the beloved song "America the Beautiful."
Katharine Lee Bates's timeless and beloved poem alongside art by award-winning author and artist Wendell Minor, capturing the magnificent beauty of the United States. Celebrate America's ideals of togetherness and marvel at classic illustrations of her natural and historical wonders: from Yosemite National Park and the Garden of...

Pictures and rhyming text present some of the many extraordinary things penguins can do. Includes facts about penguins as well as related websites.

Christmas trees come in all shapes and sizes and can be found in almost any setting, but there is only one "best" Christmas tree. If you were a Christmas tree, what kind of tree would you be? A mighty tree or a tiny tree? A city tree or a country tree? A tree with curious features or a tree made just for creatures? Voyaging from cities to plains and in renderings of things miniature to grand, Wendell and Florence Minor lead young readers on an imaginative...

In watercolor sketches accompanied by text, the author records his impressions of the Grand Canyon.

A mother's words help a little boy imagine the sights and sounds of the seashore, even though he has never seen the ocean.

When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.

"Young readers are transported back in time to the 1940s where they can ride aboard a passenger train during its nighttime journey from country to city."--

Jayden expects to see nothing but brown his first morning in New Mexico, but after being surprised by colorful rocks, flowers, birds, and animals, he wonders if this place could become home.