Rachel Isadora

Ben wants to be a trumpeter, but plays only an imaginary instrument until one of the musicians in a neighborhood night club discovers his ambition.

A favorite children's song, "The Green Grass Grew All Around," becomes a colorful book filled with African wildlife.

Children explore their five senses, learning what they can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste.

Toddlers have fun at gymnastics class.

Zolani, who lives in a rural black homeland in South Africa, goes with his mother to visit his Grandma Zindzi.

The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...