Leaf

Author	Jerry Pinkney
ISBN	0316013560

In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's...

Author	Chris Van Allsburg
ISBN	0395423317

The Stranger describes a tale of Farmer Bailey and the strange man who enters into his life unexpectedly after a car crash. The Bailey family (consisting of Farmer Bailey, his wife, and their daughter) welcomes this man into their home and hopes to nurse him back to health. The stranger has very odd characteristics...

Author	Matt de la Pena
ISBN	0399257748

Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...

Author	Brian Lies
ISBN	0062671278

Evan and his dog do everything together, from eating ice cream to caring for their award-winning garden, which grows big and beautiful. One day the unthinkable happens: Evan’s dog dies. Heartbroken, Evan destroys the garden and everything in it. The ground becomes overgrown with prickles and thorns,...

Author	Sandra Dieckmann
ISBN	1911171313

When a polar bear arrives unexpectedly in the woods, the animals fear and avoid him, suspecting him to be dangerous—and his habit of collecting leaves only adds to their distrust. Then one day, they watch as he attempts to fly over the water with wings made of colorful leaves, just trying to go home.

Maybe...

Author	Jeannie Baker
ISBN	0763648485

An innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village.

Somewhere in Sydney, Australia, a boy and his family wake up, eat breakfast, and head out for a busy day of shopping. Meanwhile, in a small village...

Author	Giovanna Zoboli
ISBN	1452167001

Mr. Crocodile loves his job. Every morning he gets up with an alarm. He brushes his teeth. He chooses the right tie to match his outfit, eats a quick slice of toast, and heads off to work on a crowded train. But what exactly is his job? The answer may surprise you! Readers will want to pore over this witty, wordless...

Author	Sally Sutton
ISBN	1922077305

Join in the exciting adventure of building a new library, with Construction by Sally Sutton.

From digging the ground, to painting the walls, you are with the team for every step of the big build.

Each page is about a different aspect of the build, and is written in a rhyme, with added sounds...

Author

Kevin Lewis

Children's scifi-horror story set in an alternate universe where dogs are sharply divided into two massively unequal classes. The ruling class has presumably taken advantage of a hole into our dimension in order to import technology. The tech pervades the lives of these dogs, even though very few...

Author	Kirsten Hall
ISBN	1592702147

A gold leaf appears in the forest. As soon as the animals notice it, each wants it more than anything else in the world. But in their struggle for it, the leaf is destroyed. Heartbroken, the animals wonder: Will we ever again see such a leaf?

After getting an MA in early childhood education, Kirsten...