A Midsummer Night's Dream for Kids

Author	David Wiesner
ISBN	0618194576

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted...

Author	Eric Carle
ISBN	0698118553

From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses,...

Author	Brian Floca
ISBN	1416994157

I see why people love Floca's book. The illustrations of the trains are terrific. As far as train-technology goes, it is way-cool. However, in 2013, couldn't it have been made more inclusive?

The Chinese laborers, for example, are shown in illustrations twice, but never mentioned in the part...

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Juan Felipe Herrera

A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera -- brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo -- speaks to every dreaming heart.

Have you ever imagined what you might be when you grow up? When he was very young, Juan Felipe Herrera picked chamomile flowers in windy...

Author	Robert Paul Weston
ISBN	1595141995

Robert Paul Weston's "Zorgamazoo"
is poetry, page-turner and lots of fun too

This is a book that you must read aloud
whether by yourself or amongst a small crowd

You'll love all the characters and the plot is surreal
(Coming up with these rhymes is no easy deal)

I...

Author	Mem Fox
ISBN	0152060308

Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same. They may not speak the same language. Their lives may be quite different. But inside, they are all alike. Stirring words and bold paintings weave their way around our...

Author	Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
ISBN	1890627062

Emma is not too thrilled that she will soon be getting a little brother/sister; she has been an only child for almost six years and likes it that way. But when her father describes how much fun being a big sister will be, Emma slowly warms to the idea and thinks of all kinds of fun activities she might share...

Author	Jacob Grimm
ISBN	0060851600

Aided by the birds who have witnessed her weeping by her mother' grave, mistreated orphan Cinderella finds a way to go to the prince's ball in this retelling of the classic fairy-tale, in which the little cinder-girl wins her love. This is a translation of the Brothers' Grimm tale, Aschenputtel, rather...