New Releases by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Two-time Caldecott Honoree Laura Vaccaro Seeger delivers another top quality lift-the-flap picture book, perfect for gifting! Look no farther for the perfect tactile alphabet book. See a word illustrated in bold, mesmerizing color and line; then, lift the flap to discover how the shape makes a part of the letter! Ideal for a baby shower or holiday gift, this sensory delight is an early reading lesson kids will want to get their hands on again and again. Laura Vaccaro Seeger, beloved creator of books like Red, Blue, Green, and the Dog and Bear Series, brings her entrancingly colorful style and inventive use of die cuts to an alphabet book a cut above the rest. Can''t get enough of Laura Vaccaro Seeger''s lift-the-flap books? Don''t miss Animal Countdown, also available now!

Count backwards with endangered animals in this new lift-the-flap book from two-time Caldecott Honoree Laura Vaccaro Seeger. Young animal lovers and budding ecologists will delight in flexing their counting skills with each turn of the page. In each spread, animals peek through cutouts—guess who? Lift the flap to reveal some of earth’s most dazzling endangered creatures, from leatherback sea turtles to giant pandas to snow leopards and more. When you’re done counting the animals, check out the back to learn more about how you can help protect them. Laura Vaccaro Seeger, beloved creator of books like Red, Blue, Green, and the Dog and Bear Series, brings her entrancingly colorful style and inventive use of die cuts to a book that serves as at once a counting exercise, guess-who game, and kid-friendly introduction to the fight to protect biodiversity. Can''t get enough of Laura Vaccaro Seeger''s lift-the-flap books? Don''t miss The Hidden Alphabet, also available now!

From the Two-time Caldecott Honor Award winning author/illustrator of Green and Blue comes Red, a story about a lost fox that explores emotions-- fear, love, anger, and more-- through the use of vivid color. With a combination of sumptuous illustrations, ingenious die-cut pages, and simple text, Red is a beautiful companion to the Caldecott Honor Book Green and the highly acclaimed Blue. In this book, award-winning artist Laura Vaccaro Seeger once again turns her attention to the ways in which color evokes emotion. Dark Red, Light Red, Lost red, Bright red. Separated from its family, a lone fox experiences, anger, fear, and ultimately love as it journeys home. Lost and alone, he makes his way through a dark forest, injures his paw, has glancing encounters with humans, and finds himself trapped in a cage, before an act of kindness returns him to the wilderness. A CCBC Choice

For young readers who always want to know why? . . . especially when there isn''t an easy answer. An ALA Notable Children''s Book A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title Two-time Caldecott and Geisel Honoree Laura Vaccaro Seeger weaves a simple story about the unfailingly curious Rabbit-- and his patient friend Bear, who always answers his questions. Bear just wants to water his flowers, but Rabbit needs to know: why? Bear is looking forward to a peaceful night of stargazing, but all Rabbit cares about is: why? As spring passes into summer, and Rabbit continues to wonder why?, detailed, lush watercolor illustrations encourage the reader to figure out the reason for each question. Over and over, Bear gives the best answers he can-- until, in the depths of winter, he has no answer to give. This simple story is a reminder that even when there are no answers for our questions, we can count on trust and love-- and sometimes, that''s more than enough.

How many shades of blue are there? There’s the soft blue of a baby’s cherished blanket, the ocean blue of a romp in the waves, the chilly blue of a cold winter’s walk in the snow, and the true blue of the bond that exists between children and animals. In this simple, sumptuously illustrated companion to Caldecott Honor Book Green, award-winning artist Laura Vaccaro Seeger turns her attention to the ways in which color evokes emotion, and in doing so tells the story of one special and enduring friendship.

Laura Vaccaro Seeger''s Black? White! Day? Night! is a sensational lift-the-flap concept book that explores opposites in new and exciting ways! Each page of this book offers a flap that reveals a picture, but lift the flap and the picture is transformed into an entirely different image--in each case, the opposite of what came before. Thus, black becomes white, sad becomes happy, and simple morphs into complicated. This title has Common Core connections.

Dog and Bear are back for three more stories, all centered around Halloween, in this fourth installment of the beloved series, Tricks and Treats. Ready for a treat? How about a trick or two? Dog and Bear return in these Halloween stories that are sure to delight their many fans and win them new ones. Join them as they search for the perfect costume, hand out candy to trick-or-treaters (or not!), and then go trick-or-treating themselves in this next installment by award-winning author Laura Vaccaro Seeger. This title has Common Core connections. A Neal Porter Book

Brutus s''est fait malmener par un plus grand que lui, alors à son tour, il embête les plus petits. Mais est-ce vraiment la solution ? Pour s''isoler : oui, pour se faire des amis : non !

Bully doesn''t have a kind word for any of his friends. When the other animals ask him to play, he responds in the way he''s been taught: Chicken! Slow poke! You stink! Laura Vaccaro Seeger''s bold, graphic artwork, along with her spare but powerful words, make for a tender, hilarious, and thoughtful tale. This title has Common Core connections. A Neal Porter Book

Start with a crowing rooster and turn the pages to see the animals pile up, one by one. As the lyrics add a meowing cat, a quacking duck, and more friendly critters, the stepped pages offer a creative way to read a cumulative story without leaving any of the animals behind. The soundtrack for this book is the folk song "I Had a Rooster," sung by Pete Seeger.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green. Full color.

Students of Springvale Elementary have written and illustrated a book to address a variety of world issues in a positive manner.

A fantastic introduction to colours, with cut-out shapes on the pages.

A picture book about transformations: from egg to chicken, from seed to flower, from word to story, and more.

Three easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between Dog and Bear.

Children''s faces, depicted with letters of the alphabet, react to the onset of a storm and its aftermath in this picture book, accompanied by simple alliterative text.