Henry Cole

Fluffity is the new pet in Mr. Drake's second grade class, but the kids soon discover that, rather than the cuddly animal they expected, she is a ferocious hamster who bites and chases everyone around school.

Mouse struggles to find the right way to express his anger, modeling the behavior of Hare, Bear, Hedgehog, and Bobcat, only to discover that his own way may be the best way of all.

As they prepare for a short separation, Mama Bear and Little Bear find a way to reassure each other while they are apart.

In this retelling of the classic tale, Mary McBlicken, a small prairie chicken, and her animal friends are on their way to tell Cowboy Stan and Red Dog Dan that a stampede is coming when they meet a hungry coyote.

It seems as though Trudy the goat knows when to expect snow, but it turns out that she is really expecting something completely different.

A walk through the woods into a salt marsh over the dunes and onto the beach brings encounters with a variety of animals and plants whose identity is revealed by folding out flaps that appear on alternate pages.

In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.

In pictures without words, the reader follows the journey of one brown paper bag from a tree in the forest through the years it is used by three generations of one family until eventually the old bag becomes the container in which a new tree is planted.

Told in two voices, a boy who wants a dog more than anything and an abandoned dog looking for a forever home find each other. Told without words, we follow a boy who wants a dog more than anything. Meanwhile, an abandoned dog is looking for a forever home. And that dog has his eye on our boy! -- adapted from jacket

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.