Graphic novels core collection for JK-G2

"Dick and Jane may now pack up their things and leave town for good. In this little marvel of distilled storytelling, five wee seasonal vignettes, starting and ending with spring, place a spry young girl in familiar situations that give free rein to her curiosity and love of action...To know Lilly is to want to know what she has to say."—Publishers Weekly "Enjoy the simple but dynamite graphics from Agnès Rosenstiehl. It's as if Tintin had gone to preschool."—Chicago Tribune Lilly is a spunky little girl who delights in the pleasures of each season, peering inside shells in the summer and tasting different kinds of apples in the fall. A charming, subtle book by one of France’s premier children’s book authors, Lilly learns about the outdoors and introduces the youngest readers to the colors, words, shapes that arise in nature.

Rick the raccoon and Rack the deer spend a day fishing, tracking wild animals, and canoeing on a lake.

While a brother and sister, along with their grandmother, visit the National Gallery of Art, the balloon they were not allowed to bring into the museum floats around Washington, D.C., causing a series of mishaps at various tourist sites. Images of thirty-two famous Americans appear among the illustrations.

Owly, Wormy, and Flutter extend a helping hand to a family of bluebirds, and they learn that sometimes you have to make sacrifices for things that are important, especially friendship.

The fifth graphic novel in the charming Owly series kicks off with a brand-new Owly adventure, and collects the very first, out-of-print Owly stories from the original mini-comics, Free Comic Book Day stories, and bonus material.

After a genie fulfills Otto the cat's wish by turning the whole world orange, Otto realizes that his favorite color is not the best color for everything.

What happens at a fire station when the alarm sounds? Firefighters are on the job 24 hours a day. They eat, sleep, and work at the fire station.

Planet Jurassica is under siege. The sinister space pirates have raided the Imperial palace and stolen the famous Jewels of Jurassica. This looks like a job for . . . Captain Raptor!. . . hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justice, and dinosaurs in space throughout the galaxy. If anyone can track down those marauding space pirates, it's Captain Raptor and the fearless crew of the Megatooth!

While in hot pursuit of an alien invader (a bug), Binky suddenly finds himself in outer space (outside) and must rescue his copilot Ted (stuffed mousie) from an enemy warship (wasps- nest)! Will Binky be able to save his best friend?

Two mice meet their new neighbor and discover that she is not as scary as they feared.