Brown, Laurene Krasny

Rex and Lilly make a birthday surprise for their mother, watch a robot try to clean the house and mow the lawn, and pick out a pet.

Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent.

Answers some of the most common questions about sex and development.

Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce the Earth's major environmental problems and suggests ways children can help.

Dinosaur siblings Rex and Lilly play at various activities.

Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters discuss the practicalities and pleasures of travel, from packing up and taking off to returning home again.

Presents, in simple text and illustrations, advice on nutrition, exercise, relationships with friends and family, and ways of dealing with stress.

Presents information about nutrition and vegetables, by means of pictures of singing, dancing vegetable characters.

Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce the earth's major environmental problems and suggest ways children can help.

Explains in simple language the feelings people may have regarding the death of a loved one and the ways to honor the memory of someone who has died.