Il Sung Na

A shy bird wants to become friends with a bear, but the bear already has a friend--a big, red balloon.

While other animals sleep at night, some quietly and others noisily, some alone and others huddled together, a wide-eyed owl watches.

From the acclaimed author-illustrator of A Book of Sleep comes a silly tale about a garden rivalry, a giant carrot and bunnies in construction vehicles! When two rabbits find a giant carrot growing between their yards, they do the only thing that makes sense: they argue over whose carrot it is! One rabbit brings a shovel to dig it out, and the other rabbit brings a spade. Next comes the bulldozers and backhoes and cranes . . . and when the dust settles,...

"A young pig admires the birds he sees flying above him, and yearns to copy them--but even when he succeeds he finds that his favorite thing is still watching the birds." --

An elephant finds a "thingamabob" and experiments until he discovers what to do with it.

"Despite their many differences, big Bear and a little fish find similarities between themselves and become friends."--

When a young boy's beloved plum tree falls in a storm, he feels like he's lost both a friend and a connection to his old home. A young boy, recently arrived from Korea, finds a glorious plum tree in his new backyard. It reminds him of a tree his family had back home, and he names it "Plumee" for the deep purple plums on its branches. Whenever the boy is homesick, he knows he can take shelter in Plumee's tall branches. And when a storm brings the old...