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 that...

Brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

In this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten, we realize that families can be many things.

Upset that he has forgotten a valentine for his friend Mole, Squirrel starts to make a fancy card but discovers a better gift.

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

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal that hands, as they carry out ordinary tasks, are also showing love.

When Turkey Tot and his friends spot some fat, juicy blackberries hanging high above their heads, Turkey Tot tries hard to figure out a way to reach them.

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