Most Popular Books by Nancy Tafuri

Goose picks the silliest places to make her nest! Clever chant-along text, animated illustrations, and an endearingly bewildered heroine.

When Farmer Gray goes away for the day, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick, and White Duck get together and paint their black and white farm. On board pages.

Ten animals find shelter in a hill hollow one by one, but when the storm is over, a rumbling tells them there is still danger afoot.

The leaves have started to fall. The air is cold. Squirrel needs to get ready for winter. He cannot nibble with the mice. He does not have time to hop with the frogs or run with the dogs. But there is one thing he can do!

With counting fun and bright, vibrant illustrations, award-winning storyteller, Nancy Tafuri, brings the farmyard to life in this sweet springtime story.

The leaves have started to fall. The air is cold. Squirrel needs to get ready for winter. He cannot nibble with the mice. He does not have time to hop with the frogs or run with the dogs. Will this busy little squirrel ever slow down? Focusing on all the charming features of the fall season, this sweetly illustrated story features country animals, pumpkins, leaves, apples and other signs of autumn. Now available as a sturdy board book, the newly redesigned Classic Board Book logo calls out this title''s seasonal theme on the front cover.

This barnyard tour will have its audience crowing with delight as they study the big, bold paintings of the animals and birds. "An ideal book for the beginning reader to entertain a younger sibling in a game they''ll both enjoy. A natural for toddler story-hour collections." -- Horn Book.

An anxious mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling.

Just right for toddlers, an appealing book in which each action propels the next, from a farmer kissing his wife, who then pats the dog, to a cat, a mouse, geese, and a donkey....There''s a lot to discover and discuss in these expansive, beautifully observed illustrations.

As a mother duck leads her ducklings home, one dawdles and is left behind but, luckily, a friend is there to help the little duckling back to his nest in time for bed.

Tap! Peck! Crack! Pop! The board book edition of Caldecott Honor–winning artist Nancy Tafuri’s Whose Chick Are You? is full of humor, love, family, and suspense, and is ideal for sharing with babies and toddlers. School Library Journal said, “[Children] are likely to sing along with the chirps, honks, clucks, and quacks while they jump into this vividly drawn world.” Who does this little chick belong to? No one seems to know—not Goose (Honk!), not Duck (Quack!), not Hen (Cluck!), not Bird (Chirp!). Not even Little Chick (croo? croo?). But Little Chick''s parents know, and—as sharp observers will delight in noting—they''ve been swimming nearby all along. The companion to Nancy Tafuri’s Caldecott Honor Book Have You Seen My Duckling?, this delightful story will engage and surprise the youngest reader!

An anxious mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling.

Here is a beautiful and unique picture book in turn-around format about the concept of day and night. Open the book, and the sun rises to reveal blue skies, crowded barnyards, and bustling streets. Turn the book over, and the moon comes up to the hush of night with its bright stars, hooting owls, and sleeping children. Young audiences will delight in the experience of going from morning to night -- and back again -- in this stunning creation from the Caldecott Honor -- winning author-artist of Have You Seen My Duckling?

The movements and actions of a family camping in the woods cause the forest creatures to also move, scurry, and make noise.

A journey through the months of the year and days of the week.

A variety of babies are featured such as: agama lizard, arctic tern, pickerel frog, brown trout, common yellowthroat, and human; all asking the question, "How am I special?"

A little boy falls asleep after reading a book about animals in a jungle, and then he meets them all in his dream.