The Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award is awarded by the Children's Services Round Table of the Missouri Library Association. This award is designed to encourage reading aloud to children from birth through kindergarten age.
When a little purple hippo cannot find the mate for her red sock, she tries everything in her sock drawer in order to be fashionable--or at least to match.
The scarecrow from Old MacDonald's farm narrates an Animal Theater production of The House that Jack Built, but animals that do not belong on a farm keep upstaging him.