Lightship by Brian Floca - Describes life aboard a lightship, a lighthouse built on a ship and anchored out to sea, and explains what it is like to ride out a storm while doing the important job of helping bring other ships safely to port

Anansi and the moss-covered rock by Eric A. Kimmel - Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson

Clay boy : adapted from a Russian Folk Tale by Mirra Ginsburg - Wanting a son, an old man and woman make a clay boy who comes to life and begins eating everything in sight until he meets a clever goat

Raven : a trickster tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott - Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun

Giant squid by Candace Fleming - A nonfiction picture book exploring the mysterious life of the elusive giant squid

The fly by Elise Gravel - Celebrates the common house fly, sharing humorous scientific facts about everything from its ability to walk on ceilings to its taste for unappetizing foods

The hidden life of a toad by Doug Wechsler - In jaw-dropping photos, Doug Wechsler captures the life cycle of the American toad from egg to tadpole to adult

When green becomes tomatoes : poems for all seasons by Julie Fogliano - A book of poetry moving through the seasons