Kate Banks

Baz has always dreamed about leaving his dusty little town. So when a stranger comes to his family's home and asks him to be a weaver's apprentice, Baz is eager to start his journey.

He and the stranger travel for several sunrises and sunsets until they reach the land of Kallah, where Baz starts his apprenticeship—and soon learns that his master is very cruel. Baz is disheartened, and when the master trades Baz to a magician for a sword,

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A boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.

After his owner dies, a cat wanders across the countryside of France, unable to forget the home he had in the stone house by the edge of the sea.

As evening progresses into nighttime, the moon looks down on a variety of nocturnal scenes, including a child getting ready for bed.

A stranded wolf cub is rescued and raised by a loving polar bear, and years later when he is grown into a wolf and on his own, he comes upon a lost polar bear cub, and the cycle begins again.

When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

A baby fox anticipates the time when he can go out alone, but first his parents must teach him the ways of the wilderness.

Unaware of its eons-old history, a boy finds a rock and takes it home to a shelf beside his sea glass and starfish.

During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the surprising story behind his name and develops a relationship with three loons, living on the lake near his family's New Hampshire cabin, that help him make sense of his life.

"While his family readies his townhouse for an approaching storm, boarding up windows and laying in groceries, Noah heads to the back garden, where beetles are burrowing deeper into the bark and mice are stuffing their hole with moss. Quickly and efficiently, Noah sets to work building an ark for them and other backyard creatures - salamanders and toads, snakes and spiders, even brightly colored hummingbirds. Setting out fistfuls of nuts and leaves,...