Books published by publisher Ragged Bears

Splendid in-your-face pictures, an over-sized format and an informal straightforward text combine to illustrate the quiet miracle of a sunflower's growth from seed to magnificent blossom. Illustrating a project repeated yearly in countless pre-school and elementary class rooms across America, a young girl plants a handful of seeds and tends to them in her garden - to be rewarded by the glory of a flower which towers high above her. Simple, easy-to-follow instructions on growing and caring for sunflowers add significant educational value and utility.

In bright splashes and splotches of imaginative, exuberant watercolors and a few well-chosen words, a cat and a dog discover how to overlook the irritations that sometimes arise between the best of friends. Sunshine, a tiny bright orange cat, and a Storm, a floppy dark gray dog, have a friendship not usually enjoyed between cats and dogs. But one day Storm inadvertently angers Sunshine, and suddenly they are no longer friends. The weather cooperates in healing their rift and Sunshine and Storm realizes that like sunny days and dark ones, their moods might change but they are friends forever. Juanty Storm and the elegant Sunshine, loveable and funny, celebrate the ups and downs of friendship with simplicity and directness that young children will recognize and take to their hearts.