Little x is missing from Charley's Alphabet, and the other lowercase letters go off to solve the mystery of his disappearance, learning in the end how valuable a little x can be.

Each barnyard animal has its favorite kind of kiss, but the best of all is a mother's goodnight kiss.

One on the forehead, one on the nose, and one flying through the air...What would a day be like without kisses? In musical language translated from Jennifer Couelle's sublime French text, Kiss Kiss celebrates the sweet gesture as a small child experiences it: in a parent's snug goodnight, a baby's sticky smooch, and a healing touch on a scraped knee.

"One kiss...so much trouble"--Cover.

"Izzie just loves when her Mama blows her kisses to catch. Smooch kisses, zig-zag kisses, and even triple decker kisses! But even though she runs and leaps for it, Izzie misses a kiss! When Mama lets Izzie in on a sweet secret she realizes that her mama'slove will always come to find her, no matter what!" --

An exuberant infant is lifted high in the air by Mommy, kissed on the tummy by Daddy, and snuggled by a puppy.

Rhyming text explores what would happen if animals kissed like humans do, from a slow kiss between a sloth and her cub to a mud-happy kiss from a hippo calf to his father.

Kisses, even the ones that don't happen, can be the trace of what's constant when life changes. In childhood, when what seems to define everything is competition--for style, for knowing, for experience--a kiss is the first first. When a girl's father moves out and chooses a new family, a kiss on the head from him may be the trace of constancy that she wants most. Later, such things take on a different flavor. Sometimes the kiss she wants doesn't come....