Betsy Franco

Briefly notes amazing animal actions such as a walrus feeling with its whiskers and a fly tasting with its feet.

Two friends celebrate the sounds and sights of summer. Clackity-clack, clackity-clack. A skateboard flies over sidewalk squares. Whoosh pumf, whoosh pumf. Water balloons tossed through the air. Bizzle-bzzz, bizzle-bzzz. A bumblebee comes zipping by. Tzooooooooooo bang. Tzooooooooooo bang. Fireworks start for the Fourth of July! The sounds of summer sizzle and pop in this bouncing, swinging tribute to the best beats of every child's favorite season....

Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds. Study a beehive and you will see the mathematical genius of the bee. Poet Betsy Franco and Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins bring geometry to life in this lively, lyrical look at the shapes and patterns that can be found in the most unexpected...

A little boy finds different ways to make his baby sister smile.

A collection of nineteen school-related poems designed to be read aloud by two voices, but also appropriate for one or many readers.

16 entertaining visual concrete poems (poems that are typeset in the shape of their subjects) capture the distinctively entertaining habits and attitudes of cats.

A collection of poems, stories, and essays written by girls twelve to eighteen years of age and revealing the secrets which enabled them to overcome the challenges they faced.

An anthology of stories, poems, and essays by adolescent boys on issues that concern them.