Randy Cecil

Lucy is a small dog without a home. She had one once, but she remembers it only in her dreams. Eleanor is a little girl who looks forward to feeding the stray dog that appears faithfully beneath her window each day. Eleanor's father is a juggler with stage fright. The overlapping stories of three delightful characters, offering a slightly different perspective each time, come together in a truly original, beautifully illustrated book for dog (and...

Duck happily raises a duckling that has wandered into the amusement park where she is a carousel animal, but finds that she cannot teach what she herself has always longed to do--fly--and sets out to find real ducks to instruct him.

When the amusement park where he had been a happy carousel animal closes, Gator decides to explore the outside world but finds it a very lonely place. Lonely for laughter, a carousel animal goes on a courageous journey in Randy Cecil's delightful new picture book. Gator loves everything about being a carousel animal - the flashing lights, the calliope music, and most of all, the laughter. But day by day, week by week, fewer and fewer people come...

"When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born. They march and sing, roar and whisper, hide and seek, then settle into snug companionship at bedtime"--

A special T. Rex follows his heart and finds his dancing shoes.

A young boy who likes to "wokka-wokka, shimmy-shake, and shocka-shocka" gathers his neighbors together for a surprise celebration.

Various animals invite the reader to experience what their different body parts can do, including their tickly belly buttons.

In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him.

A Western-style retelling of the traditional tale about a little girl who finds the house of bear family and makes herself at home.

A Southwestern version of "Little Red Riding Hood" in which Little Red rides her pony Buck to Grandma's ranch with a jar of cactus jelly in the saddlebag.