Ben loves to hear the Zig Zag Club musicians play, filling the air with the sounds and rhythms of jazz. And when he hears them, he plays along on a trumpet that nobody else can see—except one man, who opens the door to his dream.

You don't have to know jazz, play the saxaphone, or even have a cat to get into this most original picture book. The words were inspired by "Night in Tunisia".

Joseph had a little overcoat, but it was full of holes...

Saxophone-playing Miles and his Swamp Band find a bevy of sharp-toothed, long-tailed alligators who love to listen to their music.

Marian Anderson is best known for her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an integrated crowd of over 75,000 people in pre-Civil Rights America.

Ralph helps to save his favorite singer from the clutches of tough rat kidnappers.

A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.

When the Depression hits her family, Lydia Grace, 10, leaves her snug rural home and journeys to a nearby city to live with dour Uncle Jim.

Amber Brown is excited and a little nervous about starting second grade. What if the new teacher doesn't like her?

Beginning in the dark hours of morning, an Amish girl, along with two adult companions, sets off for the big city for the first time.

Tippy, tippy, tippy, Pat! That's the sound three hungry bunnies make when the sun goes down and the moon comes up and Mr. McGreely's garden smells yum, yum, yummy. While he's dreaming of his mouth-watering carrots, the bunnies are diving over fences and swimming trenches to get the veggies first!

In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?

Walter Dean Myers celebrates the African experience in America with a soulful, affecting blues poem.

Bear was the kind who, when he wanted something, took it. And what he wanted was Lizard's song.

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her cool teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly brings her purple plastic purse and its treasures to school and can't wait until sharing time, Mr. Slinger confiscates her prized possessions.

In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky.

Sheila Rae is not afraid of anything. She walks backwards with her eyes closed, steps on every crack, growls at stray dogs, and bares her teeth at stray cats. But then Sheila Rae becomes lost on the way home from school...

Kalman's inspiring story of the role of the John J. Harvey during the tragic events of September 11...

No one thinks one or two snowflakes will amount to anything. Not the man with the hat or the lady with the umbrella. Not even the television or the radio forecasters. But one boy and his dog have faith that the snow will amount to something spectacular...

Vibrant scratchboard oil paintings bring to life a retelling of a popular Alabama folktale...

David Attenborough guides the viewer through a miniature universe teeming with life, not normally seen, yet all around us. New technology reveals surreal vistas and their extraordinary inhabitants - swarming antler moths, desert locusts and a mountain of cockroaches - up close and personal. The bizarre and the beautiful are represented and their habits, lifestyles and characteristics explained in David Attenborough's inimitable style.

A funny book that makes you cry. A sad book that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it—and grateful that you are not.