Jen Corace

"While making toast for a late night snack, a little girl runs out of bread after a host of animals show up looking to share."--

In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.

Little Oink is a neat little pig, but his parents will not allow him to play with his friends until he is messy, as pigs should be.

"Rhyming text follows a brother and sister as they go outside on a rainy day to play in the mud."--

"House has always loved the people inside. When they move out, House's halls grow quiet, his windows dark. He hopes with all his shingles that there will be other inhabitants and joys to discover. As generations pass, House experiences new people and traditions and learns that love can come in many forms"--

Simple arithmetical equations show how big and small moments add up in life.

A bird pecks its way out of its shell, then spends a day discovering new things about the world and itself.

"This picture book biography of the groundbreaking female novelist Jane Austen, recognized as one of the most important and influential writers of all time, is ideal for Women's History Month. Full color." --

On a beautiful day, some of Charles Darwin's many children help him study humblebees (bumblebees) in the garden at their home in the English countryside.

Petronella's fashionable friends are arriving at her country estate near London to celebrate her sixteenth birthday and her coming out party. During the festivities, important guests are disappearing, kidnapping notes are appearing, many of the clues are insects, and Uncle Augustus (who has developed a bug eating compulsion) is surreptitiously devouring evidence.