Jason Chin

A book exploring the world of the very small, delving deep into the microscopic spaces just beneath our skin.

During an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.

A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read. The text contains facts about the redwoods, while the illustrations tell the boy's story.

"During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there." -- From publisher.

A spare, poetic picture book exploring the different phases of the water cycle in surprising and engaging ways.

When it was first published over 40 years ago, Trina Schart Hyman's retelling of Little Red Riding Hood created a sensation for its cozily detailed, romantic, and mysterious illustrations of one of childhood's most popular stories. Since then Hyman's version has become one of the best-loved editions of the tale, delighting generations with its wonderfully alive paintings.

Presents an overview of Chinese New Year, how people get ready for it and the celebration itself, which includes fireworks, parades, family gatherings, and the Festival of Lanterns.

Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the Grand Canyon, a cavernous wonder that's home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals.

Rivers wind through the earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous...

Charles Darwin first visited the Galápagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched, this historical and scientific book tells the epic saga of the life of an island? Its birth in fire, its rise to greatness, its decline, and, finally, the emergence of life on new islands....