Books with author Kay Chorao

The little farm by the sea is a bustling place, filled with animals to keep track of and visitors to attend to. All year-round Farmer Brown and his family are busy, cultivating plants in the greenhouse in wintertime, and planting and sowing the harvest in. the warmer months. And finally, when the customers come, the hard work has paid off. There are beautiful flowers to buy, delicious vegetables to eat, and strawberries ripe for the picking.Kay Chorao lovingly portrays the changing of the seasons on a real family farm where she herself has spent many an afternoon. With a fluid text and warmly detailed art, this simple story celebrates a vanishing way of life that embodies our most long-standing values and traditions.

Pig was lonely, but baking raised his spirits. He baked a lot.A magical tale about loneliness and friendship-with a happy endingCrow loves Pig's baking, and in exchange for delicious desserts he gives Pig special gifts, such as seeds and a caterpillar. The gifts are supposed to take away Pig's loneliness, yet no matter how carefully Pig follows Crow's instructions, they never seem to work. But then one of Crow's gifts-an egg-hatches, and magic or not, Pig has a friend at last.Kay Chorao's gentle text and lovely illustrations create a warm, sweet story about loneliness, patience, and the magic of friendship.

Illustrated in full color. "A sturdy board book featuring [Kay] Chorao's charming drawings done in crosshatched colored pencil. A happy toddler plays a peekaboo game in a cozy, comfortably cluttered house. Rhyming verse accompanies scenes of the child's daily routine: dressing, mealtime, playtime, bedtime. Each page contains a differently shaped die-cut hole for youngsters to peek through and discover an object or animal on the next or preceding page...This will be a welcome addition to toddler collections."--School Library Journal

A magical tale about loneliness and friendship-with a happy ending."Pig was lonely, but baking raised his spirits. He baked a lot."Crow loves Pig's baking, and in exchange for delicious desserts he gives Pig special gifts, such as seeds and a caterpillar. The gifts are supposed to take away Pig's loneliness, yet no matter how carefully Pig follows Crow's instructions, they never seem to work. But then one of Crow's gifts-an egg- hatches, and magic or not, Pig has a friend at last.Kay Chorao's gentle text and lovely illustrations create a warm, sweet story about loneliness, patience, and the magic of friendship.

I Like to Read® Books for Beginning Readers• More than 70 fun-to-read books for new readers• Guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards• Award-winning easy reader series, created by acclaimed author-illustrators including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors• Levels A though D for kindergarten readers; levels D through G for early first grade readers It's playtime for Ed and Kip! The happy-go-lucky elephants have lots of fun rolling and kicking a rock around with their friend Bug, but the games come to a halt when one bad kick sends the rock straight into Crocodile's pond. Crocodile comes close to devouring the poor elephants before Bug uses some quick thinking to save his friends. This delightful easy-reader is full of kid-friendly mischief, with beautiful illustrations of Ed and Kip's jungle adventure.