What if you discovered an imaginary friend from your childhood whom you had completely forgotten about?

"If you've ever been frightened by a ghost, the thought of becoming friends with one might seem awfully scary."

“M - Moon. Crescent moon in the sky, Bend like me --- Watch clouds float by.”

This playful treat of a picture book offers the simplest of haiku riddles to younger readers. The answer to each is an animal and each animal then gives the next set of clues.

“It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially... the school.”

The Savannah animals are sleeping under the big night sky as this day-in-the-life story begins and ends. In between, each two-page spread shows and names a specific African predator and its prey as they run in pursuit and in fear.

“A box of colored pencils is as close as you can get to owning a piece of the rainbow.”

“Hear: the doors we open for each other all day, saying: hello / shalom / buon giorno / howdy / namaste / or buenas dias…”

“They lived happily ever after and had many, many, waaaay too many children.”

"George, whatever it is, you can tell me… Whatever happens in your life, you can share it, and I will love you.”

“I’m going to fill my hungry, empty tummy with something yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy..”

“What makes a family sad? It’s a hard question to answer. Maybe it’s better to think about what makes a family happy and then subtract it.”

“Paw through these pages and find 125 of National Geographic Kids’ favorite true tales of animal heroes, silly tricks, spoiled-rotten critters, and even pets that have pets of their own.”