By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

A grouchy ladybug, looking for a fight, challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength. It's the Grouchy Ladybug's 20th birthday. To celebrate, we are introducing a new, larger format edition with brighter, more colorful pages created from Eric Carle's original artwork using the latest reproduction technology. The Grouchy Ladybug is bigger and brighter, as irascible but irresistible as ever and will surely delight new generations...

A spider, blown by the wind to a fence post near a farm yard, begins to build her web and cannot be distracted from the task at hand--not by the horse, cow, sheep, goat, or dog. But when the rooster asks if she wants to catch a pesky fly, the busy spider is able to catch it in her web immediately!

A restless firefly begins a search for other fireflies and is led to a lantern, a candle, the glowing eyes of a cat, dog, and owl, and a surprise celebration of light before he finds his friends and the real reason for his journey.

A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.

When a storm strikes a cargo ship, ten rubber ducks are tossed overboard and swept off in ten different directions. Based on a factual incident.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s, and how his art, banned by the Nazi regime, inspired young Eric Carle.

The tiny seed tells the story of a tiny seed that floats across the sky and eventually becoes a giant flower. Pancakes, pancakes! presents the story of Jack who is hungry for a big, delicious pancake breakfast. But first his mother needs various ingredients for the meal. Will Jack ever get his pancakes? Walter the baker's cat spills the milk and Walter must make the sweet roles with water. The duke is very upset and threatens to banish the baker unless...

A little caterpillar shows the best ways to spend a beautiful spring day.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar spends a day in the snow admiring snowflakes, snowmen, and snowforts.