When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.

Illustrations and simple text explain what wind is, how it is used by plants, birds, and people, and how wind can become a storm.

"Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations...

Simply describes how various baby animals come into the world and what happens when a human baby is born.

One brown bunny goes out one day and finds many friends who would like to play.

It all started with water. But how did one river make such a deep canyon? Read on and find out.

As a child makes a Mother's Day card, various animal mothers are shown taking care of their young.

Simple rhymes tell why kittens, bears, kangaroos, and other animals behave the way they do.

In Anchorage, Alaska, two lonely boys make a connection--a brown bear injured just after his mother sends him out on his own, and a human whose father is a new keeper at the Alaska Zoo and whose mother and sister are still in Minnesota.

Describes in verse the lion that is March weather, which finally gives way to the lamb of spring.