Kate Banks

At the end of the day a little boy falls asleep as his mama reads about a bear hibernating.

When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.

A young baboon's view of the world changes as his mother shows him various parts of his environment.

Lester has just moved to Cape Cod and is starting in a new school, and George is missing his best friend who has moved away, but the two develop a friendship and learn about scientific experimentation when they start working on a school science project, testing psychic ability in dogs, based on an experiment developed by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.

Alice learns the importance of saying "please" as well as that this magical word will not lead to everything she wants.

As evening progresses into nighttime, the moon looks down on a variety of nocturnal scenes, including a child getting ready for bed.

When its owners leave, a summer house comes alive with the sounds of a mouse nibbling crumbs in the fall, a cat taking shelter in the winter, and rain falling on the roof in the spring.

After his owner dies, a cat wanders across the countryside of France, unable to forget the home he had in the stone house by the edge of the sea.

Alex wants to be a "night worker" like his father who goes to work at a construction site after Alex goes to bed.