Van Laan, Nancy

A child climbs five different trees, looking for a place to hide and finding an increasing number of animals already in residence, until finally the perfect tree is discovered.

A lullaby book for children around the world.

Little Fish loses his mother in an African pond and searches everywhere for her, seeing all kinds of animals in the process.

When a bouncy baby's buggy goes whooshing down a hill, he is in for quite a ride as an assortment of people give chase.

A rhythmic read-aloud tale describing a chain of events set in motion when a big fat bird tries to eat a big fat worm.

One house seems to contain an entire menagerie of active animals, which get into all kinds of mischief and trouble, but in the end they are all found to be the young narrator.

Mama Bunny tries to bathe her energetic toddler.

A cumulative story in which a tiny, tiny boy tries to milk a big, big cow who will not stand still.

A child climbs five different trees, looking for a place to hide and finding an increasing number of animals already in residence, until finally the perfect tree is found.

Illustrations and rhythmic verses depict a mother and child and different animals on each of the seven continents.