Lavender's Blue

Author	Peter Sís
ISBN	0374399697

A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world!

Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the...

Author	Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
ISBN	0152045732

On the Manhattan bank of the Hudson River, a small lighthouse--made of steel and painted bright red--proudly protects boats with his faithful beam. One day a great expanse of gray steel, which also shines a bright light into the fog and darkness, is built over it. The little red lighthouse feels insignificant...

Author	Phyllis Krasilovsky
ISBN	0749704977

This by far hasn't been the first time I've read The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, but I recently realised I hadn't added it to Goodreads and so it demanded a reread.

What a lovely children's book! The story of Henrietta and her adventure has always been a personal favourite, and now I get to share it...

Author	David McKee
ISBN	0688091717

"McKee's gentle humor and love of irony are in full force in this celebration of individuality and laughter." — Publishers Weekly

Elmer the elephant is bright-colored patchwork all over. No wonder the other elephants laugh at him!

If he were ordinary elephant color, the others...

Author	Mick Inkpen
ISBN	0340565640

As The Guardian so rightly points out ‘The charmingly comical Inkpen, as always, hits the spot’. The first from the collection of Kipper books, it describes Kipper’s struggle to get comfortable in his doggy basket. He tries a number of amusing options such as a gardening pot, only to find it incredibly...

Author

Barbara Rogasky

I bought this for a friend who, in the midst of the We Need Diverse Books fundraising campaign in Nov/Dec 2014, complained about the lack of brown children in the picture books she was collecting for her adopted Ethioipan son. I also bought a copy for myself because Trina Schart Hyman is my favorite illustrator...

Author	Dick Bruna
ISBN	1592260004

This is an extremely strange book. Maybe my Dutch is even worse than I imagine, but the story appears to be roughly the following. I translate into a more familiar idiom:

The Gospel According to Dick Bruna

1. And it came to pass in those days that there were two rabbits, and they did live...

Author	Edward Ardizzone
ISBN	1845074564

Little Tim wants to be a sailor, but his parents tell him he's too young, even though his retired boatman friend has taught him all about ships. He decides to convince them by stowing away on a steamer. When he is discovered, he is put to work scrubbing the decks, which is a lot harder than he expected.

Here's...

Author	Pat Hutchins
ISBN	1416908358

I actually first heard about this book when I was watching it on “Weston Woods” which is a children’s programming company that turns classic children’s books into ten minute long cartoon shorts. “Rosie’s Walk” is a children’s book by Pat Hutchins and it is about the wacky...

Author	Wilbert Awdry
ISBN	0434803774

This very first book about the now famous engines was originally published in 1945. Written by Awdry in 1943 to entertain his son, Christopher, who was suffering from measles at the time, this was the first book in what was to become The Railway Series.

Here are the original four stories about...

Author	Elfrida Vipont
ISBN	0140500480

The Elephant and the Bad Baby is the classic story from Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs.

The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride and they go 'rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta down the road.' They help themselves to ice creams, pies, buns, crisps, biscuits, lollipops and apples, and the shopkeepers...

Author	John Burningham
ISBN	0805013156

Mr. Gumpy's Outing is a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. In England, illustrator John Burningham, with Mr. Gumpy's Outing, became the first artist ever to win England's Kate Greenaway Medal twice.

Mr. Gumpy lives by a river....

Author	Helen Nicoll
ISBN	0140501177

Meg and Mog is the first in the long-standing series about a witch (Meg) and her cat (Mog). Meg is a cute well-meaning witch who lives with Mog and her owl. In Meg and Mog, we are introduced to a witch wardrobe and a witch's breakfast. Later Meg flies off to meet her witch friends for some spell-making at a Halloween...

Author	Janet Ahlberg
ISBN	0140503854

This paperback edition of the bestselling picture book The Baby's Catalogue by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!, is filled with easily recognizable objects - perfect for your baby or toddler!

Mums and Dads, breakfasts and bedtimes,...

Author	Helen Oxenbury
ISBN	0689819862

Synopsis : A simple board book featuring lumbering, cutie-pie babies at play.
Review : This board book was initially a bit of a challenge for me to really jump into until I began to appreciate it's subtle charms. Having a limited number of pages (4 total) it took a minute for it to "click" in my brain....

Author	Lucy Cousins
ISBN	0763642541

Going to preschool is a lot more fun with a friend like Maisy to show you the ropes!

Preschool for Maisy means a day filled with friends and things to do, from the time she hangs her coat on a special peg to the time she says good-bye. There's painting and snack time, stories and nap time (and a bathroom...

Author	Eileen Browne
ISBN	0763608637

Handa carries seven delicious fruits to her friend Akeyo as a surprise But thanks to some hungry animals she meets along the way it's Handa who's in for a surprise! --cover

Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children...

Author	Edward Lear
ISBN	0744567947

The Quangle Wangle Quee sat on top of the Crumpetty Tree, but you could not see his face because of his hundred and two feet wide Beaver Hat.

The Quangle Wangle gets visited by an array of imaginary beasts such as a pobble who has not toes and loves to dance on the hat of the Quangle Wangle Quee.

This...

Author	Graham Oakley
ISBN	0333493370

Buying this book is a mix of whimsy and preparedness. I say that I have two other of the authors books that I adored as a child so it was inevitable that I tried his most famous books. Some may say I'm getting clucky and feathering the future eka-Brendon's nest. They may have a point...

I adored both...

Author	Quentin Blake
ISBN	0805059334

One day, Clown is thrown into the trash, but he doesn't stay there long.

He tries to find someone to take care of his friends, but no one listens.

Then Clown finds someone he can take care of, and together, they make a home for everyone.

Follow the fortunes of Clown-- who starts...

Author	Niki Daly
ISBN	0374437203

Perfectly South African, and perfectly universal. Lively, funny, with a big crisis and a happy resolution, and an author's note that, unfortunately, is half-covered by my library's binding (still, I get the gist, and it is a good one to share with older children).

I honestly tried to talk myself...

Author	Kate Greenaway
ISBN	0873282167

Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were even translated into German and French.

One...

Author	Gunilla Bergström
ISBN	9129661544

One of the two best goodnight stories for small kids that I know. (The other one is Astrid Lindgren's Jag vill inte gå och lägga mig!). Alfons runs his pushover dad ragged with a stream of excuses about why he can't possibly go to sleep yet.

This is another book that my four-year-old nephew Samuel...