Dorros, Arthur

Text and illustrations depict the different types of houses lived in by children all over the world. On each page "This is my house" will appear in the appropriate native language.

Explains how ants live and work together to build and maintain their cities.

A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.

Chronicles the harrowing journey of Ehmet, a thirteen-year-old boy from Sarajevo who gets caught up in the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

Explains what shadows are, how and when they exist, and how they reveal the size and shape of things around us.

Describes the characteristics, various forms of plant and animal life, and destruction of the world's rain forests.

While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.

A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.

Explains how water flows from brooks, to streams, to rivers, over waterfalls, through canyons and dams, to eventually reach the ocean.