Kate Banks

When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.

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.

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

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

When Max and Pete get a new dog, they learn that taking care of a pet is not as easy as they thought.

Max and his older brother Pete learn about stars, planets, and galaxies when their father takes them to an astronomical observatory.

Max and his brothers drive to Shapeville and Count Town searching for problems, and are able to use their skills in arithmetic and sleuthing to help get things ready for a rocket launch.

Three eraserheads that live with a boy in the land of pencils, paper, rulers, numbers, letters, and drawings become trapped in one of his pictures while trying to correct mistakes.

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.

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