Leslie Patricelli

One child. One swing. An obliging dad. The inevitable plea to go "Higher! Higher!" Add Leslie Patricelli's wildly expressive illustrations, and an everyday pastime reaches new heights of humor and whimsy. How high can it go? Higher than a giraffe? Taller than a mountain? Is Earth the final frontier? The creator of a popular series of board books rises to the occasion with an ingenious picture book of very few words that expresses the giddy glee of...

Monkey Mike is reprimanded for making noise when he taps pencils and clangs trash cans until he sees a drum set in the music store and puts his hands-on talents to work in a most impressive way.

Explores opposites, showing proper behavior and naughty behavior.

An imaginative young child has a wonderful time playing with a box he receives for his birthday.

It's Halloween! Time to dress up and trick-or-treat!

Baby, a toddler, decides to use the potty for the first time.

It's a rainy day, and the Patterson puppies have run out of things to do. If only it were sunny and warm, they could go to the beach! But then Petra gets an idea. Indoor beach party! Buckets! A blue-carpet ocean! The surfing and undersea diving are a blast, until mom and dad appear on the shore. Uh-oh! Will a mop-brigade party be as much fun?

Lily Lattuga finally feels settled after moving to a new town and starting the fourth grade at a new school. She gets to live right across the lake from her best friend, Darby, who loves frogs and drawing just as much as Lily does. They even have their own club: the Rizzlerunks. But then things start going wrong: the new boy in class is a liar and a bully, and Darby begins acting strangely--she even breaks the Rizzlerunk pledge of honesty and gets...

Puppy siblings Andy, Penelope, and Jack help their sister Petra overcome her fear of a nighttime monster.