Arcadia Public Library

Rhymed text tells a hypothetical story about a Giraffe, and the many things that could happen to this giraffe ... IF. The poems starts with "If you had a giraffe ..." and continues by building along these lines with all sorts of different "ifs" and their conclusions.

Describes the trip taken by a train as it travels over hills, through valleys, past horses and orange trees until it arrives at the next station.

Questions in verse about the many things you could be if you were square or soft or loud or red or small or fat or fierce or dark.

Brief rhyming verses describe a truck used to track storms.

A toad barely escapes being squashed beneath the wheels of a truck.

Meet the little joey, whose kangaroo mother carries him in her pouch. See the cygnet riding on the back of the mother swan. Eric Carle's colorful collages of animal babies with their caring and affectionate mothers offer small readers visual delight as well as comforting reassurance. An information page at the end of the story presents the names of animal babies, parents, and groups, for example, a baby kangaroo is a joey, its mother is a flyer, its...

The owner of a human body celebrates it by pointing out various parts and mentioning their functions, from "hands for catching and throwing" to the "skin that bundles me in."

Various animals tell what they do and where they go when it starts to snow.