Melissa Sweet

While a little girl who loves red--and loves to dilly-dally--stops to paint a picture on the way to visit her grandmother, her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.

"Combines playful text with inventive artwork to encourage readers to celebrate the magic of discovering their very own poetry in the world around them. "--

Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.

A stunning new picture book from Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet! This New York Times bestselling duo has teamed up for the first time to bring you How to Read a Book, a poetic and beautiful journey about the experience of reading. Find a tree--a black tupelo or dawn redwood will do--and plant yourself. (It's okay if you prefer a stoop, like Langston Hughes.) With these words, an adventure begins. Kwame Alexander's...

This picture book biography of William Carlos Williams traces childhood events that lead him to become a doctor and a poet.

"Baabwaa is a sheep who loves to knit. Wooliam is a sheep who loves to read. It sounds boring, but they like it. But one day, they decide they could do with a bit of adventure, so they set off for a walk around the field. Just then, quite unexpectedly, a third sheep shows up. A funny-looking sheep. A funny-looking ship who might just be that wolf in sheep's clothing Wooliam has read about..." --

Click Dark hosts a special twelve-hour program of American Batstand where the bats rock and roll until the midnight hour ends.

A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.

On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.