Kate Banks

A boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.

Lester has just moved to Cape Cod and is starting in a new school, and George is missing his best friend who has moved away, but the two develop a friendship and learn about scientific experimentation when they start working on a school science project, testing psychic ability in dogs, based on an experiment developed by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.

A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can been seen with one's eyes closed.

As evening progresses into nighttime, the moon looks down on a variety of nocturnal scenes, including a child getting ready for bed.

When its owners leave, a summer house comes alive with the sounds of a mouse nibbling crumbs in the fall, a cat taking shelter in the winter, and rain falling on the roof in the spring.

When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

An easy-to-read book about a globe-trotting cat that crosses paths with a vacationing family in the great cities of Europe. Includes facts about the cities.

The wood mouse and the rabbit find a rag doll in the woods. Nothing about it is familiar: it doesn't smell like the fresh air of spring or feel like the rough bark of a tree. As the group of animals grows and searches for a clue to where the doll came from, they encounter more mysteries-and discover the one thing their hearts know to be true. --Amazon.com.

While his family readies their house for an approaching storm, Noah builds a shelter in the back garden for the birds, frogs, and insects to weather out the storm.

Three eraserheads that live with a boy in the land of pencils, paper, rulers, numbers, letters, and drawings become trapped in one of his pictures while trying to correct mistakes.