Gershator, Phillis

Throughout the day, children greet the sun, the breeze, their breakfasts, their school, and all the other large and small sights which they encounter.

Simple text and illustrations of a zoo introduce the numbers one through ten.

A series of visitors take an ever-growing number of babies home with them on each day of the week.

Various animals tell what they do and where they go when it starts to snow.

Preferring to dream away the days on his Caribbean island, little Junjun tries saying magic words to get the chores done.

A babysitter sings a rhyming song to reassure the child.

Soto takes some of the bananas he has grown to share with his friends at the Market Square where his mother works.

Describes, in rhymed cumulative text and illustrations, how various young animals and one small human prepare for sleep at the end of a spring day.

On an island in the West Indies, a big, strong woman with a booming voice meets a weak, nearly deaf man, they fall in love and expect a baby and a hurricane at the same time.

When Tukama is captured by a two-headed giant and held prisoner by the giant's wife, he uses his flute to escape.