Brian Floca
1) Five trucks
Author
Language
English
Description
Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
2) Locomotive
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A visual exploration of America's early railroads that examines the sounds, speed and strength of the fledgling transcontinental locomotives and the experiences of pioneering travelers.
5) Lightship
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[38] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
9) Poppy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
10) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
81 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
12) Ragweed
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
13) Poppy and Ereth
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
15) With Dad
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A boy remembers a special camping trip he shared with his father, who is now away at war."--
16) Hawk rising
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Early morning and a ruffle of feathers, a shadow gliding through the backyard. High above your house Father Hawk circles, sharp eyes searching for prey. Swoosh! He dives after chipmunks, crows, sparrows, squirrels. Screech! The sun hangs low in the sky as three hungry chicks wait. Will they eat today?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and cluttered scenery. No one has imagined how much fun an...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here is the incredible story of Elizabeth, a real-life elephant seal who made her home in the Avon River in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Elizabeth decides to stretch out across a two-lane road, the citizens worry she might get hurt or cause traffic accidents, so a group of volunteers tows her out to sea. But Elizabeth swims all the way back to Christchurch. The volunteers catch her again and again--each time towing her farther, even...