Ashley Wolff

aA mother hen takes care of her cold and hungry chicks. Text in English and Spanish on facing pages.

Students respond, in rhyming text, to their teacher's question about what each calls his or her grandmother, offering examples of things they like to do together.

Leaving the den as the weather warms, Baby Bear discovers blue birds, red strawberries, orange butterflies, and other colorful things in nature.

A rhyming text explains from A to Z, which common items around the house can be turned into the dark, crumbly stuff we call "compost stew". The collage illustrations are made from some of those items to help make the point. There's a note at the end of the text listing things that are not suitable for adding to the compost bin.

"Adam has a secret, and his friends have to guess what it is. Miss Bindergarten has a secret too, and the whole class will be amazed at what fun she has in store for them"--

New words to the traditional tune describe a camper-driving, "hootin'" and "shoutin'" guest and the party that will begin when she arrives.