A must-read that belongs in every home and classroom, A DAY WITH NO WORDS invites readers into the life of an Autism Family who communicates just as the child does, without spoken language.
The American Library Association Booklist starred review boasts, "The story is written from the boy's first-person perspective, however—a clever choice in that it gives readers a direct look into his mind and reinforces the book's crucial statement...

Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (1862-1924) was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books.

A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Scribner's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Judge, and other publications. He later wrote and illustrated

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Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."

An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.

Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music.

As a little bunny says goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room, the illustrations grow progressively darker.

"There's a big round moon in a dark, dark sky. The chickens are nervous. Witches, wizards, robots, and an alarmingly enormous mouse (eek!) are prowling around town tonight, and it's up to the chickens to get to the bottom of it -- that is, if they can uncover their eyes long enough!"--

A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.

"The Sun Plays with the Moon tells an imaginative story of the Sun and the Moon's journey around Earth."--

Four children set out to capture a unicorn, but it manages to escape all of their traps.