Textured elements--from a dolphin's smooth rubbery skin to a turtle's hard shell--help introduce readers to animals living in the ocean.

While reading a bedtime story starring sleepy animals dozing off, the unflappable narrator, distracted by nocturnal animals who have anything but sleep on their minds, improvises the nocturnal brood into the verse.

Count the funny animal friends as they noisily roll, flop, and tumble out of bed, one by one, in this clever split-page picture book.

"A beautifully illustrated picture book that encourages readers to count and celebrate all the moms around them! 1 mom waking, 2 moms eating, 3 moms walking . . . Moms are all around us! This simple counting book encourages readers to count and celebrate all the amazing moms around them--the heroes kids count on everyday! ..."

It is hard for Chihuahua Ember to decide which is worse: a pack of pugs who announce that they are aliens, or the dog park which is filled with large and overexcited dogs--but he is convinced that he and his animal friends must stop the pugs to save the world (for themselves).

"Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring animal artists. The bouncing harmonies of the Barbershop Beagles, the elegant crooning of the elephant Ella Fontaine, the hilarious rhymes of the Hip-Hop Hedgehogs--all are represented in this quirky ABC book that draws on the creator's personal collection of albums, memorabilia, and lyrics dating between 1944 and 1984, the heyday of album...