Bandon Public Library

A grouchy ladybug, looking for a fight, challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength. It's the Grouchy Ladybug's 20th birthday. To celebrate, we are introducing a new, larger format edition with brighter, more colorful pages created from Eric Carle's original artwork using the latest reproduction technology. The Grouchy Ladybug is bigger and brighter, as irascible but irresistible as ever and will surely delight new generations...

By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake. Jack wants a giant pancake for breakfast, but his busy mother tells him to gather all the ingredients, so Jack gets flour from the mill, an egg from the hen, milk from a cow, and butter churned by his own hand. The barnyard rooster crows and Jack wakes up hungry, of course. What does he want for breakfast? A big pancake, but first, Jack's mother...

A board-book with pull tabs of the story of a boy who is searching for his lost cat

When a storm strikes a cargo ship, ten rubber ducks are tossed overboard and swept off in ten different directions. Based on a factual incident.

A lonely firefly goes out into the night searching for other fireflies

A clumsy young click beetle learns to land on its feet with encouragement from various animals and a wise old beetle. An electronic chip with a built-in battery creates clicking sounds to accompany the story

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s

An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.

A little caterpillar shows the best ways to spend a beautiful spring day.

Die-cut pages illustrate the concept of shapes as a hungry caterpillar eats different things for dinner.