Lois Ehlert

This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth. Lois Ehlert's bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.

An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.

A counting book depicting the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself.

On market day, a farm family experiences all the fun and excitement of going to and from the farmers' market.

The rooster, dog, sheep, cow, pig, and other animals on a farm are made up of colorful shapes such as square, circle, rectangle, and triangle. Features die-cut pages.

"Through rhyme and mixed-media collage illustrations, 'rain fish'--the varied, colorful, and unique little collections of materials that float along on streams of rain water during storms--come to life"--

On market day, a farm family experiences all the fun and excitement of going to and from the farmers' market.

Some children create a family out of snow. Includes labeled pictures of all the items they use, as well as information about how snow is formed. Pull on your mittens and head outside with Lois Ehlert for a snowball day! Grab some snow and start rolling. With a few found objects, like buttons and fabric and seeds, and a little imagination, you can create a whole family out of snow. Ehlert uses collages of cut paper and vibrant, textured objects to...

An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.

A traditional Mayan tale which reveals how the cuckoo lost her beautiful feathers.