Nancy Van Laan

Rhyming text asks what happens to different animals and plants "when winter comes and the cold wind blows."

A cumulative tale in verse about a mysterious stranger that interrupts a family's daily routine.

A young Quechuan boy sets out on his own to bring the rains back to his parched homeland and is rewarded by a gift of carob beans that come to be prized across Argentina.

An anthology of Native American lore is called from the traditions of more than twenty North American tribes and includes such stories as Raven, the River Maker, "The Corn song," and "Coyote and the Blackbirds".

Three rhyming scary stories.

Little Fish loses his mother in an African pond and searches everywhere for her, seeing all kinds of animals in the process.

Moose helps his little animal friends in many ways during the four seasons.

A child climbs five different trees, looking for a place to hide and finding an increasing number of animals already in residence, until finally the perfect tree is found.

Family members go to great lengths to rid their child of head lice.

Mama Bunny tries to bathe her energetic toddler.