Ask Mr. Bear

Author	Wende Devlin
ISBN	0819304980

Today was Thanksgiving, Grandmother's favorite day of the year. The cooking was done and her famous cranberry bread was cooling on the wooden board. Every year Grandmother invited a guest for dinner and allowed Maggie to do the same. "Ask someone poor or lonely," she always said.

She wasn't...

Author	Ruth Sawyer
ISBN	0140502750

This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.

It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...

Author	Lauren A. Mills
ISBN	0316574074

3.5 Lovely illustrations and a pleasant story that is perhaps a bit too predictable and "full of heart" for its own good about a poor girl whose family cannot afford to buy her a coat--thus, she cannot go to school in the winter--and the kind women who eventually make her a quilted coat of scraps. She can...

Author	Carol Talley
ISBN	1559420286

3.5 STARS. Sweet story about a tomcat who takes care of two stranded kittens--begrudgingly at first, then with great affection and interest. As the Note to Parents in the back of the book mentions, it is sometimes difficult to find stories where a male figure is in the nurturing role, so I do appreciate...

Author	Mark Shasha
ISBN	1930900163

On his way to help grandmother and relatives at a seaside hot dog stand, seven-year-old Mark stops on the beach to pick up a small jellylike substance that he places in a bag of seawater. A moonlight ride with Gram on a fishing boat takes them out on the ocean where thousands of moonjellies shimmer, and the...

Author	Masako Matsuno
ISBN	1930900201

A child's delight in a new pair of shoes is the same all over the world, whether the shoes are patent-leather sandals, straw alpargatas, deerskin moccasins or wooden clogs. For Mako, a little Japanese girl, the new shoeswere clogs painted with red lacquer that shone beautifully. This is the story of...

Author	Helen Oxenbury
ISBN	0763649708

What could be better than sharing a birthday cake with the friends who helped to bake it?

It's one lucky toddler's birthday, and of course there must be a cake. So the child asks some animal friends to gather ingredients, one by one: the chicken an egg, the bear some flour, the cat the butter and...

Author	Elsa Beskow
ISBN	0863150926

I decided to read Elsa Beskow's delightful Pelle's New Suit in French, as Paul et son habit neuf because our public library system happens to have only the French version (and I am actively trying not to purchase so many picture books, mostly due to an ever-increasing lack of shelf space), and I absolutely...

Author	Arnold Lobel
ISBN	0060239328

Small Pig is about a pig who is small. He loves nothing more than to sink down in good, soft mud. But when the farmer's wife cleans up his mud puddle, the pig must go out into the world to find a place that is messy enough for him. Will he find his mud? What will the farmer and his wife do when they find that he's gone?

Small...

Author	Pat Hutchins
ISBN	0689713711

Owl can’t get to sleep in Pat Hutchins’s beloved Good-Night, Owl!

How is Owl supposed to sleep the day away with the bees buzzing, the woodpecker pecking, the doves cooing, and the squirrels crunching? But when night falls and everything is finally quiet, suddenly there’s a new sound—and...

Author	Felicia Bond
ISBN	0064435857

Written and illustrated by Felicia Bond, the illustrator of the bestselling If You Give... series, Tumble Bumble is a fun-filled tale of a tiny bug who goes for a walk and meets all kinds of creatures!

When a tiny bug decides to go for a walk, anything can happen! He might meet a cat, a crocodile,...

Author

Jan Andrews

Eva Padlyat lived in an Inuit village on Ungava Vat in northern Canada. In winter, when people wanted mussels to eat, they searched along the bottom of the seabed. Eva had often walked on the bottom, helping her mother, but today – for the very first time – she was to go down below the thick sea ice herself....

Author	Rebecca Caudill
ISBN	0805075240

" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...

Author	Patricia Lee Gauch
ISBN	0698116763

This was my all time, number one, absolute favorite book when I was a child. It's one of those things that has survived my many moves, and not on accident.


The illustrations are simple but absolutely beautiful and perfectly fitting with the theme of imagination. They're almost deceptively...

Author	Faith McNulty
ISBN	0064432181

‘[An] irresistible account of a child’s imaginary 8,000-mile journey through the earth to discover what’s inside. Facts about the composition of the earth are conveyed painlessly and memorably.’ —SLJ. ‘An exciting adventure. . . . Illustrations [by Caldecott Medal winner Marc Simont]...

Author	Robert Kraus
ISBN	1416903119

A lonely little mouse has to be resourceful to bring his family back together.

In a series of delightfully imaginary achievements, “nobody’s mouse” transforms himself into the beloved hero of his mother, father, sister, and brand-new baby brother.

In their very first collaboration,...

Author	Emmy Payne
ISBN	0395137179

Once, a long time ago, my father gave me a copy of this book. It’s a story about a mother kangaroo who doesn’t have a pouch to carry her joey with. So, starts her adventure searching about for a way.

If a story stayed with you, even decades have gone by, maybe there's a very good reason or a...

Author

Marie Hall Ets

It’s a gentle story with a sweet song to sing.

This is like a poem told. It reminds me so much of little kids. They want so bad to love and play with animals they see and they go wildly chasing after them. The animals always run away from them. This book, a little girl asks animal after animal to play...

Author	Candice Ransom
ISBN	0064433951

On her day in town with her mother, a little girl starts off with an empty big green pocketbook—just like her mother’s—and along the way collects pieces of her day to put inside, inventing stories for each treasure. ‘Studded with inventive imagery.… A playful and most suitable setting for...

Author	Joan G. Thomas
ISBN	0688409814

A little boy imagines what it would be like if Jesus came to spend the afternoon with him -- the little boy Jesus, of course, "about the age that I am and about the size of me."It is easy to see why this friendly little book, originally published in England, has already sold 19 editions. It offers the Golden...

Author

Nancy White Carlstrom

What does a little bear wear while he romps through a bright and sunny day? In the morning, his pants that dance, and the sun on his legs that run. At lunchtime, celery crunch and sprouts in a bunch, and juice from a pear and rice in his hair. And at night, his pjs with feet and face on the seat, and sleep in...

Author	Judy Dunn
ISBN	0394843770

The Little Rabbit is a story of irresponsible pet-keeping hidden behind heart-melting photos as adorable as any internet meme.Do not let the cuteness sucker you in! For one thing, pet rabbits should NOT be allowed to wander in meadows (however idyllic) without leash or pen, especially if the pet-keeper...

Author	Mirra Ginsburg
ISBN	0613068505

-- Sparkling, expansive fun, sure to be a runaway story hour success". -- Kirkus Reviews, pointered reviewVividly colored humorous pen-and-ink illustrations greatly enhance the simple tale of an ant who takes shelter under a small mushroom during a downpour.... This lively -- and instructive --...

Author	Joan L. Nodset
ISBN	0064431746

The farmer had a hat, an old brown hat.
Oh, how her liked that old brown hat!

But then the wind came, and blew the hat away. And as fast as the farmer ran, the wind raced even faster. So the farmer went looking. Neither squirrel, nor Mouse, nor Duck, nor any of the other animals has seen the hat--though...

Author	Jane Simmons
ISBN	0316797901

Daisy's mother warns her to stay close, but there are so many distractions in the pond! After all, there are fireflies to chase and lily pads to jump on. A sudden, scary noise teaches Daisy to heed her mother's words. The author's colorful illustrations will capture children's attention as they enjoy...