Angelina and Henry

Author	Mercer Mayer
ISBN	1577686888

This may have been the most intriguing book of my childhood and I would love to get my hands on a copy now that I'm all growed-up. I suspect that I only saw half of the things in each picture; we'd pore over every page for minutes on end, encouraging each other to find what we saw and we did this with alarming regularity....

Author	Cicely Mary Barker
ISBN	0723248273

This is the same format as the other flower fairy book I have read. Each page is a different poem about a different flower. The drawings are fantastic, so lovely and colorful. It shows the fairy and the flower. I love the poppy flower here. Her dress is astounding. A fashion house should use this concept....

Author	Mary Calhoun
ISBN	0688065198

This is a book I haven't read in over 30 years so it was nice to read it all over again. The story itself is adorable and in a way it is like the Little Engine that Could in that Henry is determined to keep going no matter how tired he is and no matter how close the coyote gets to him.

But what I can truly appreciate...

Author	Marjorie Flack
ISBN	0374403848

In this third installment of his continuing adventures, Angus the Scottish terrier - whose story began in Angus and the Ducks , and continued in Angus and the Cat - finds his way onto the open road, and chasing another dog (a collie), is lead far from home. When night begins to fall, Angus discovers...

Author	Don Freeman
ISBN	0140502882

Why mice?

Why has so much children's literature been about mice? Why Mickey and Jerry and Fievel and their animated brethren? How in the world did such vermin ridden filth become cute?

It's not like they are endangered and we need to generate our usual, oops-too-late-false-sense-of-urgency....

Author	Cale Atkinson
ISBN	1101919094

A delightful, funny story of friendship, ghost chores, a spooky house and a professional haunter.

Meet Sir Simon, Super Scarer. He's a professional ghost who has been transferred to his first house. And just in time! He was getting tired of haunting bus stops and forests and potatoes. And to...

Author	James Solheim
ISBN	0399251553

July 8

Imagine! A day ago I'd never even heard of the world, and suddenly here I am in it. There's so much to write about--macaroni, Fun World, and a big sister who has it all figured out.

Which is why boys adore her.

I need to get her attention back on me--and quick. But how? Should...

Author	Peter McCarty
ISBN	0805079432

Can airplanes fly to the moon? This one can! Above the clouds an airplane flies into the sky. On the ground a small boy looks up. A young boy sees a plane overhead and imagines himself in it, traveling all the way to the moon. What does he see on his way?  With characteristically spare prose, Caldecott...

Author	Jill Barklem
ISBN	0689830599

It was such a hot summer. The sky was deep blue and the sun never faltered.All along Brambly Hedge, the mice did their best to keep cool. Poppy Eyebright sought refuge in the mossy shadows of the mill wheel; Dusty Dogwood took to walking by the banks of the cooling stream. Dusty and Poppy spent more and more...

Author	Rosemary Wells
ISBN	0786838345

McDuff and his parents, Lucy and Fred, live an ideal life. McDuff is a pampered and well loved dog who enjoys taking walks in the woods, listening to comics read out loud, and listening to his favorite music program on the radio. Then one fateful day, McDuff's comfy life comes to a screeching halt when Fred...

Author	Jan Brett
ISBN	0395510066

Well... This time I actually thought Brett did a good job with illustrating cute little Annie. And, of course, the animals are great. I just thought the story was really boring and just really unbelievable. The mother cat leaves her warm home to go outside (in the snow! In a hollow tree!) to have her kittens?...

Author

Steven Kellogg

My favorite of Steven Kellogg’s picture books.

The good: Very simple story. Lovely wordless two-page spreads showing Arnold and his imagination. Excellent line drawings. I don’t even like Kellogg’s illustrations usually but these made me smile.

There’s no black or red:...

Author	Bill Peet
ISBN	0395522072

Our story takes place on the plains of Africa. An Ostrich was born late and his family had fled lions and he was all alone. A heard of Zebra runs by and a young Zebra stops to help out our newborn. Zella adopts the Ostrich and calls him Zack and teaches him how to survive. Zack grows and soon towers over the herd....

Author	Phyllis Root
ISBN	0763613835

A small bear looks for—and finds—courage and a way home.


While Mama hangs the wash out
and Papa rakes the leaves,
Oliver chases a big yellow leaf . . .

Oliver is so intent on following a blowing autumn leaf that he doesn’t even notice that he’s lost his way. All alone...

Author	Steve Wilson
ISBN	1848861117

Best friends, Horace and Hattie have so much fun together. Tea parties, daisy chains, swings, and more. But there’s one thing these two hedgehogs can’t share--a hug. They are just too spiky for hugs. These BFFs have tried it all from hollow logs to rolling in snow. Can Hattie and Horace finally...

Author	Anne Renaud
ISBN	1771386193

When Filbert P. Horsefeathers walks into George Crum's restaurant, he tells the waitress, 'I have a hankering for a heaping helping of potatoes.' Fine cook that he is, George prepares a serving of his most scrumptious, succulent and sublime potato wedges, only to have Filbert send them back. 'Too thick,'...