Ann Whitford Paul

When shopping for Culebra's birthday, Conejo convinces his friends Iguana and Tortuga to buy all the wrong presents. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.

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"Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explores what would happen if animals celebrated Halloween."--

"Imagines how animals would say I love you." --

"Rhyming text explores what would happen if animals celebrated Christmas like humans do, from a penguin and chick writing letters to Santa to a koala and her parents sharing a holiday cuddle." --

"If animals gave thanks . . .what would they do? Raccoon would chir-chirrrr thanks for her cub. Crow would loop and swoop in the sky. And Bear would invite his friends to a bountiful feast. Across the animal kingdom, every creature would be grateful for food, family, and being together." --

A girl takes delight in all the things she and her feet do throughout the day.

When Snail realizes that his friends are going to bed, he begins a very long, very slow slide to wish them all good night.

"Rhyming text explores what would happen if animals tried to be kind, including Porcupine knitting a long scarf for Giraffe and Squirrel helping Dog dig for bones."--

Text explains how putting letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters ends up creating a book.