Madeleine Dunphy

This unusual cumulative book begins with a stark, black-edged painting of the vast, moonlit, arctic landscape. Each turn of the page highlights another arctic creature, generally named in the order it appears on the food chain.

Cumulative text describes the interdependence among the plants and animals of an African savanna.

A little girl falls asleep just as her cat wakes up. Children will experience the world through the cat's eyes, ears, nose, whiskers, and feet as he travels the neighborhood, meeting up with other denizens of the night.