Author: Stacey Schuett
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Keywords: rainbow, book, reading, right, world, somewhere
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1997-11-11
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0679885498
ISBN-13: 9780679885498

School Library Journal called Stacey Schuett’s stunning authorial debut "a book that is perfect for sparking an interest in geography, emphasizing the amazing concept that at the same moment we are getting ready to sleep, other people are starting a new day." And in a starred review, Publishers Weekly added, "Schuett proves as nimble with words as with a paintbrush."  It’s a good-night wish that circles the globe.  

Author: Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Keywords: beautiful, something
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-01-08
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440412102
ISBN-13: 9780440412106

A little girl longs to see beyond the scary sights on the sidewalk and the angry scribbling in the halls of her building. When her teacher writes the word beautiful on the blackboard, the girl decides to look for something beautiful in her neighborhood. Her neighbors tell her about their own beautiful things. Miss Delphine serves her a “beautiful” fried fish sandwich at her diner. At Mr. Lee’s “beautiful” fruit store, he offers her an apple. Old Mr. Sims invites her to touch a smooth stone he always carries. Beautiful means “something that when you have it, your heart is happy,”

Author: DAVID LUCAS
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Keywords: jackson, halibut
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2010-07-13
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553113240
ISBN-13: 9780553113242

A picture book about shyness from a new and truly innovative artistHalibut Jackson is a very shy person. He would prefer not to be noticed at all. So he makes himself clothes to suit his surroundings. His library suit has a striped look to it to match the shelves. But when he is invited to a party at the Palace, he is flummoxed -- what does the palace look like inside? At last, having researched hard, and sewn quickly, Halibut is ready: only to discover that the party is not being held where he expected it to be, and his suit does not suit the occasion at all. But everyone admires it tremendou

Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Keywords: flying, kite
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-05-11
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0553112546
ISBN-13: 9780553112542

The family from Dim Sum for Everyone! is back for a new outing– building and flying their own kite! The wind is blowing. It is a good day for kites! The whole family makes a trip to the local craft store for paper, glue, and paint. Everyone has a job: Ma-Ma joins sticks together. Ba-Ba glues paper. Mei-Mei cuts whiskers while Jie-Jie paints a laughing mouth. Dragon eyes are added and then everyone attaches the final touch . . . a noisemaker! Now their dragon kite is ready to fly.Kite Flying celebrates the Chinese tradition of kite making and kite flying and lovingly depicts a family bonded b

Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Keywords: books, dragonfly, room, salamander
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0679861874
ISBN-13: 9780679861874

Illus. in full color. Brian finds a salamander and takes him home. "Wherewill he sleep?" asks his mother. Her "inquiries are answered with imaginativesolutions that will be familiar to all those who have tried to convince aparent to let them have a pet. Johnson’s lush, shadowy paintings depict eachaddition to the cumulative scenario as Brian’s cozy bedroom is graduallytransformed into a dark green forest that overflows the pages as the fantasybecomes more elaborate. This is a beautifully designed mood piece."--SchoolLibrary Journal.

Author: Leo Lionni
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Keywords: egg, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-11-17
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0679893857
ISBN-13: 9780679893851

Now in Dragonfly comes the tale of three colorful frogs. One finds a pebble.Another declares it a chicken egg. But what happens when a baby alligatorhatches instead? "Kids will giggle at the frogs’ repeated references to thefriendly newborn as `the chicken.’ They’ll be even more tickled when the frogschuckle at the `mother chicken’ who, finally reunited with her offspring,greets her `sweet little alligator’...In his 40th book, Lionni is intypically fine form" (Publisher’s Weekly).

Author: Antoine O Flatharta
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Keywords: monarch, hurry
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 038573719X
ISBN-13: 9780385737197

When the beautiful orange Monarch on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico stops to rest at Wichita Falls, Texas, she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. She tells him, "Maybe one day you’ll break out of that shell, grow wings, and fly away," and then she is off again with millions of other Monarchs. In the spring, she stops again at Hurry’s garden just long enough to lay her eggs and head north to Canada. Embedded in this lyrical and tender fictional presentation are the fascinating facts about the amazing 2,000-mile migration and the life cycle of butterflie