Up to Seven

The entire family joins in an impromptu dance party when Daddy puts his vinyl record on the turntable. Lively, brightly colored gouache paintings are a perfect match for the rhyming text which exudes the joyous rhythms of jazz.

An exuberant giant squid is puffed with pride at being bigger than any of the sea's inhabitants until he meets an enormous and less-friendly creature. Sherry’s collage and watercolor illustrations, layered on Plexiglas, are full of humor and surprise.

Neither asking nor answering the eternal question of which came first, lushly colored and textured illustrations combine with precisely designed die-cuts to illustrate a variety of processes: from egg to chick, tadpole to frog, seed to flower, and finally, word to story.

Sometimes it's more fun to be someone else, as a little boy discovers when he dons an alligator head and tail that help him make new friends and fend off a bully. An old-fashioned setting and silly rhymes add to the charm.

Lush, highly stylized, dreamy illustrations and a palette that modulates from sunset reds and pinks to deepest blue evoke the timelessness of this story about a little girl who doesn't want to go to bed. Also published in Spanish as NOCHECITA.