Pigs and puppies, cats and meerkats, babies and grown-ups - all creatures sleep, but even so, sleep can take us by surprise. With an artist's eye, Arlene Alda has created a remarkably warm and intimate collection of images that capture the peace and magic of dreams. Young children will delight in the realization that no matter where or what we ...
When you don't want to fall asleep, counting animals doing silly things will keep you entertained. This unique rhyming bedtime reader serves as a counting book and an animal identification picture book with 22 lavish full-color photos of animals that are bound to garner giggles.
This gorgeous photographic ode to the alphabet takes the reader's eye on a journey through the everyday world. Search for the curl of a 'c' in pink shrimps in a pan, the hook of a 'j' in a collection of coat-hangers, and the tail of a 'q' in a key-ring on a table. This book takes a fresh look at the commonplace, usually unnoticed things around us.
What's Granny running so fast to catch? Join Ruthie and her friend to find out as they glimpse Granny Annie's striped bloomers and jogging shoes leaping off the pages of this children's book, delightfully illustrated by Eve Aldridge. Arlene Alda wrote the whimsical story of HURRY GRANNY ANNIE for her own five grandchildren.
An opposites book like no other -- from the inimitable Arlene Alda! Author / photographer Arlene Alda is back with another delightful photo essay. This time she tackles the concept of opposites with her keen sense of humor and sharp eye. This slightly off-beat collection of images is fodder for the imagination -- an opposites book like no other. ...
Color photographs and a rhyming text tell of how a variety of farm creatures greet the morning. In a chain reaction, the farm creatures such as a pig, a calf, and a duck, wake each other up until, at last, the purring of a kitten wakes up a young boy just in time for breakfast.
"If horns played cool music, and pants were just clothes...." Horn, pants, nails, trunk, pitcher -- all words that can mean more than one thing. Arlene Alda has put together words and images in a delightful and witty book of photographs as inviting as a pair of juicy pears. "Did You Say Pears?" takes a playful and very clever look at words that ...
Now available in paperback, photographer Arlene Alda leads a journey through the everyday world that encourages readers to see with an imaginative eye.
Author/photographer Arlene Alda has produced yet another brilliantly simple rhyming safari -- this time in search of faces in unusual places. These faces are found on buildings, in trees, mailboxes, and fountains. Coy, funny, grumpy, comical, or sad, they are almost anywhere a child's imagination wants to go. Whimsical text heightens the search ...
Life in a tenement during the 1930s is difficult for anyone. No wonder Mama is homesick for the sunny south if Italy, where flowers bloom and the sky is always blue. Her little daughter tries everything to cheer her up, from hand stands and jokes to a trip to Coney Island. Nothing seems to work. But at Coney Island, the child wins a packet of ...
Iris finds out that having a stomach virus is exhausting, especially when her brother, Doug, lets her know that she always gets sick at the wrong time. The sibling rivalry and misunderstanding of what germs are when they are called bugs unfold in this lighthearted story of Iris's ordinary illness and her unfounded concerns. Arlene Alda's engaging ...
Everyday items photographed in such a way that they resemble letters of the alphabet. For example, a sawhorse represents the letter "A", a necklace the letter "U". Illustrated with color photographs.
Now available in paperback, photographer Arlene Alda leads a journey through the everyday world that encourages readers to see with an imaginative eye.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date Published: 01/04/1995
ISBN-13:9780440409571ISBN:0440409578
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