Look Under Rocks imprint: 7 books

This year, when Grandpa puts Caspian’s special Unbirthday box under his bed, it’s empty. Grandpa insists that he has given Caspian an Invisible Magic Wand® Caspian has to name it before it will work. “Maybe,” says Caspian. “Good name,” says Grandpa. “Nobody will...

Loretta is a mischievous girl who lives in a cabin high up in the Colorado mountains.  She loves her garden and the ladybugs that protect it.  But where do they go in the winter? On a cold winter day when she was collecting pine needles for her strawberry patch, she discovered ladybugs hiding...

When Loretta dropped her armload of firewood on the hearth, a mysterious tube fell from between the logs. It was a leafcutter bee nest. Loretta took it back out to the woodpile and watched as holes appeared. But where were the bees?  She found more holes appearing in leaves on her rose bushes. And...

Caspian tries to catch a frisbee. He misses. The  frisbee gets stuck in a tree. Caspian isn't good at climbing trees. He doesn't have to be.  He puts on his Hot Chocolate Underpants. He pours cocoa on himself. He grabs the mop for steering. When he arrives at the tree, Grandpa is still there, smiling....

On Caspian’s Unbirthday, his grandpa always gives him a silly present that just isn’t right for a birthday present. This year it’s brown underpants. Caspian is disappointed. Grandpa calls them “Hot Chocolate Underpants.” Then he spills cocoa on Caspian’s lap. Caspian glares at his grandpa. Grandpa smiles. Then Caspian’s butt twitches. The adventure begins.

Loretta finds a caterpillar egg on a milkweed plant. She breaks off the leaf and brings it home. Mom won't let Loretta keep it in the house, so she tapes the leaf back on the plant, and watches over the egg. It hatches. It eats the leaf, and more leaves. As the caterpillar grows and molts, Loretta...

PreSchool-Grade 3-- Oliver wishes he had a totally different life after receiving a gentle reprimand from his adoptive father. Sent to his room, the young lizardlike creature is convinced that his birth parents would have cut him a much better deal. A little later his mother and father share their...