Wendell Minor

Pumpkin heads and jack-o-lanterns of all varieties abound when Halloween comes around.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text tells a story of the fun and excitement of being a penguin.

Told in rhyming text, a train speeds through the night, revealing the sights and colors along the way to its young and sleepy riders.

"Two American icons meet in this nonfiction picture book that tells the dramatic true tale of Wilbur Wright's flight circling the Statue of Liberty"-- On September 29th, 1909, Wilbur Wright performed his first public flight for a crowd of disbelievers in the New York Harbor, home to the Statue of Liberty. With courage and caution, he put his airplane to the test and flew around the iconic landmark while the crowd observed, breathless. Burleigh provides...

A young sandhill crane, Luck, finds his place in the ancient crane migration from northern Canada to the Platte River.

The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks.

A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic.

Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.

"An introduction to diurnal (daytime) and nocturnal (nighttime) animals"--

A simple description of the life of Abraham Lincoln, presented from his point of view.