Cari Best

In this bouncy, playful picture book for very young listeners, follow two baby friends who live in facing buildings through their day--playing, singing, and napping--till they meet in the park!

A young girl finds a Canada goose with a badly injured foot and looks for her each day to see how she is doing.

A five-year-old girl who is brave and strong faces night noises, too much light, and spooky shadows, all without calling her parents, before finally feeling sleepy.

"A boy turns a cardboard box into a car and imagines what it would be like to take his mama for a drive all around town"--

Beatrice enjoys learning to spell, and gets really excited about it after some encouragement from her grandmother, but she has trouble convincing her classmates that spelling is not boring.

Violet is so shy that she never makes waves in the swimming pool or swallowing sounds at snack time. She shrinks whenever anyone watches her. So what will Violet do when her teacher, Mrs. Maxwell, gives her a big part in the school play?

Stories include: Stick and Stone; Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners; Shrinking Violet; and Crazy Hair Day. In Stick and stone, When Stick rescues Stone from a prickly situation with a pinecone, the pair become fast friends. But when Stick gets stuck, can Stone return the favor? In Do unto Otters, When the Otters move in next door to Mr. Rabbit, the animals do not know how to act. Then Mr. Owl advises them to "Do unto Otters!" In Shrinking Violet,...

Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster.