Kurt Cyrus

A construction crew rebuilds an old clock tower that has become home to rats, bats, mice, and an assortment of birds.

"When a dragon catches a cold, setting off fires with its sneezes, a wizard comes to the rescue with a magic potion."--Provided by the publisher.

Poor Napoleon. Despite being the spiffiest chameleon in the jungle, he has no friends. And why is that? Because no one can see him! As everyone knows, chameleons blend in with their surroundings. Napoleon is practically invisible. So he tries every trick he can think of, from waving his arms to weaving a welcome mat to making funny faces, to get the other jungle animals to see him. But it's his final trick that really gets him noticed.

Celebrating a birthday is always a happy occasion but never more so in this desert community then when it's a centenary for a grand Saguaro cactus! For one hundred years, the majestic cactus has anchored this vibrant neighborhood, providing food, shelter, and shade to the local wildlife inhabitants. In beautiful rhyming text, the creatures that depend on Saguaro's gifts come to pay homage, including the tiny bat that sips nectar from the plant's flower,...

Put an ear to the ground for the clicking, popping, snapping music of this garden grown wild. In verse as witty as it is buggy, Kurt Cyrus conducts a chirruping chorus of voices great and small. From a stinkbug trying (and failing) to hide itself to a cicada's struggle to escape its own skin to an ant's marathon dinner march and a frog's identity crisis, here is a garden teeming with down-to-earth fun for readers of every species-no matter how many...

A collection of poems about the activities of a variety of different bugs which flourish in a garden from early spring to late fall.

Rhyming text and pictures introduce the reader to a variety of animals as they try to snuggle in to sleep.

When an ice-cream truck breaks down in the middle of his street and blocks a growing number of other busy vehicles, a little boy remembers the important functions that each subsequent truck performs and devises a helpful solution.

Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends,Katieand Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.