A Toni Morrison Treasury by Toni Morrison

Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison cowrote eight children’s books with her son, and for the first time they’re gathered in one hardcover keepsake treasury, with a foreword by Oprah Winfrey.

The three Who’s Got Game? books playfully retell Aesop’s fables. Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre, The Ant or the Grasshopper? explores friendship, betrayal, and survival; The Lion or the Mouse? takes a hilarious look at bullying and ego; and The Poppy or the Snake? shows how an accidental injury spirals into a battle of wills. In The Tortoise or the Hare?, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, slow and steady wins the race...or does it?

Also illustrated by Cepeda, Peeny Butter Fudge celebrates three kids and their Nana, who turns an ordinary afternoon into something special with fairies, dragons, dancing, and a batch of yummy fudge.

In Little Cloud and Lady Wind, with art by Sean Qualls, a cloud who loves having the sky to herself learns from Lady Wind about the power of being with others.

Illustrated by Shadra Strickland, Please, Louise follows a girl whose gray afternoon at the library becomes an adventure of surprises, ideas, and curiosity, celebrating reading, imagination, and libraries.

Morrison’s first children’s book, The Big Box, illustrated by Giselle Potter, introduces three feisty kids who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.

Hardcover; 304 pages / English