George Shannon

It's easy to take a cookie out of the cookie jar: just reach in. But how does it get in there in the first place? It's more complicated than you might think. Someone has to milk the cow, grow the wheat, harvest the sugar cane, everyone has a special job to do to make that cookie possible. In “Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?”, George Shannon and Julie Paschkis take us on a delicious cookie journey, showing how many hands work together so...

When a mean dog blocks the path to the garden where a delicious breakfast awaits, Little Chick shows her family how brave and clever she is.

A family can be many things, in this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten.

Encourages the reader to look at objects in nature from another perspective, observing their colors in a new way.

Provides a challenge for children who know the alphabet well enough to play with it, and create an alphabet where all they have to do is think ahead.

Bear tries repeatedly to learn Lizard's song.

Presents a collection of eighteen brief folktales in which the reader is asked to explain how the folk character lied and told the truth at the same time.

When Warren moves away he misses his older friend next door and the times they shared in the garden, but the separation inspires each of them to do something creative about it.

Woodland animals, each thinking of his neighbor, share a turnip left on their doorstep.

When Snake starts sleeping on the rock where Lizard lives, Lizard must figure out how to get his home back.