Deborah Freedman

"Shy loves birds, but he's only ever read about them in books. When a real bird finally comes along, he's dying to meet her, but he's too afraid to get leave the gutter of the book. Can he put aside his fears, step out onto the page, and get to know her?"--

When a field mouse asks Carl the earthworm why he tunnels through the dirt, Carl doesn't have an answer, so he sets off to find out.

An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.

Every day, Snail waits for Fish to come home with a new story... -- Today, Fish's story (about pirates!) is too grand to simply be told: Fish wants to show Snail. But that would mean leaving their familiar world - a scary prospect for Snail, who would rather stay safely at home and pretend to be kittens. Fish scoffs that cats are boring; Snail snaps back. Is this area too small for the two feuding friends? Could this be the end of Fish and Snail?

A chicken wreaks havoc in a farmyard with a pot of blue paint.-- The innocent chicken just wants to help, but things get worse and worse, and bluer and bluer, the more she tries. Playing with colors and perspective, and using minimal text, this richly layered story reveals new things to see and laugh about with each reading.

"A small but mighty bird declares it is a dinosaur! But no one believes that dinosaurs still exist. How can it be a dinosaur when it is so little? Dinosaurs didn't have feathers ... or did they? This tiny dino is here to explain to its animal friends that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs, and all creatures are connected to one big animal family"--