Kathryn Heling

Using the image of uniforms and equipment hanging on a clothesline, the text invites children to identify the sport played by each child.

Drying clothes suggest different people the reader will meet on the first day of school.

In rhyming text, ten lucky leprechauns play in the woods, in a book introducing both St. Patrick's Day and the numbers one through ten.

In this story told in a rhyming beat, kindergarteners fondly remember their school year, excitedly attend graduation, and eagerly look forward to first grade.

In rhyming text, ten groundhog friends eat, play, and work in their crowded den until one by one they surface to see their shadow, in a book introducing both Groundhog Day and the numbers one through ten.

Rosa goes to elaborate and comical lengths to have freckles like Abby. She realizes she might have something that is just as desirable as the longed-for freckles. Rosa gains appreciation of her own uniqueness.

Hello sun: Quentin the hedgehog longs to see the sun, but the trees in the forest where he lives block his view. So Quentin comes up with a plan -- he'll build a treehouse! But this proves to be a big task for a little hedgehog. With a little determination and some help from his friends, Quentin reaches new heights and finally greets the sun. I wish I had freckles like Abby: Rosa wants freckles just like her friend Abby. How can she get them? Maybe...