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 very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish. The cricket's sound is reproduced at the end of the book.

Encourages the reader to exercise by following the movements of various animals; presented in a question and answer format.

Two children escape a giant through secret passageways, trapdoors and underground tunnels.

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.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way. On board pages.

Do you know your opposites? Discover them with fun flaps and Eric Carle's art!

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them. On board pages.