Micawber

Author	Leo Dillon
ISBN	0590478877

In this exquisite book -- the fortieth picture book the couple has worked on together -- Leo and Diane Dillon's breathtaking paintings accompany verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Simple yet profound, the inspiring words and pictures make this the perfect gift choice for birthdays, weddings,...

Author

Kathryn Lasky

This is a wonderful picture book. It is a bit long, so I'd recommend for ages 5 and up. But it succeeds in a tough genre for children's books - period non-fiction.

It's a story of a 10-year-old, Marven, who is sent away from his family during the flu epidemic of 1918. He leaves Duluth and goes to a logging...

Author	Jon Scieszka
ISBN	0670059862

It all started when I told my friend Art I would meet him on the corner of Fifth and Fifty-Third.
I didn't see him. So I asked a lady walking up the avenue, "Have you seen Art?"
"MoMA?" asked the lady.
"Uh . . . no, he's just a friend."
"Just down Fifty-Third Street here. In a beautiful new building....

Author	Tanya Lee Stone
ISBN	0670062685

As a boy, Alexander (Sandy) Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between...

Author	Antonio Hernandez Madrigal
ISBN	0698118855

The yellow dress Erandi wants for her birthday will look beautiful with her long, thick braids. But Mama's fishing net is full of holes, and there isn't enough money to buy both a new net and a birthday dress. The only solution lies with the hair buyers from the city. But Mama's hair isn't nearly as beautiful...

Author	Brinton Turkle
ISBN	0140503935

An interesting story about a seagull that befriends or follows around a little boy, Obadiah. Everyone notices and teases him and the boy doesn’t like it, but when the bird is not there, Obadiah misses him.

I didn’t think the artwork was especially Caldecott worthy. The story is simple and...

Author	Peggy Parish
ISBN	0064440370

I loved the pronunciation guide. That is this book's strength. The problem with it is that it's dated- we've learned rather a lot about dinosaurs and their extinction since 1974. It was fun to read with a five year old dino maven-

I read "Dinosaurs lived everywhere for a long time. Then they died....

Author	Joanna Cole
ISBN	0394886682

This book follows the story of a lively kangaroo named Norma Jean who enjoys jumping any time she can. However, Norma Jean's consistent jumping gets her in trouble at school and with her friends, because she doesn't know when are appropriate times to jump (sitting in class, playing on the seesaw, etc)....

Author

Sandra Boynton

Moving Out, Moving Up, Moving On
For new graduates, or for anyone facing imminent change, here is profound insight, bold inspiration, and truly ensloxifying advice. Also an occasional hippo. No wombats.
What's more, Yay,You! will not overstress the weary mind. It's nice and short, with...

Author	Lynd Ward
ISBN	0395643775

A wordless children's graphic novel and/or picture book about a farm boy who sees a silver flying horse. Is it real? Well, he tells his Dad, who punishes him for lying. But we know differently. We have actually seen the horse, who carries the boy all across the country, giving him the opportunity to help...

Author	R.A. Robinson
ISBN	0985399538

After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...

Author	M.T. Anderson
ISBN	0763615862

From the celebrated picture-book team of M. T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes comes a wistful, wondrous ode to the natural pleasures of peace and solitude.


The boy lives alone at the End of the World, hunting treasure with old maps, finding fossils, whistling tunes, playing ball by the drop....

Author	Jerdine Nolen
ISBN	0152053921

Mortimer Henryson loves Plantzilla, the plant he's been taking care of all year in his third-grade classroom. He loves him so much, he takes him home for summer vacation. What could go wrong with a . . . plant? But life in the Henryson household soon takes a strange turn. A pot roast disappears, then steaks...

Author	Sarah Stewart
ISBN	0374324638

From the beloved husband-and-wife team of The Gardener, a Caldecott Honor Book

Annabelle Bernadette Clementine Dodd
Was a good little girl, though decidedly odd.
Belle lived every day as if she were grown --
She thought she could do everything all on her own.

Lucky for...

Author

E. Nesbit

An enduring story of the magic to be found in books.
Young Lionel is very surprised to be made King, but he's delighted to discover the world full of books in the Palace library. When Lionel opens one called THE BOOK OF BEASTS, he's in for an even greater surprise--out of the pages fly a butterfly and...

Author	Michael O. Tunnell
ISBN	0688128785

Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a...

Author	Eileen Spinelli
ISBN	1416912355

One wintry day, a postman delivers a mysterious package with a big pink bow to a lonely man named Mr. Hatch. "Somebody loves you" the note says.

"Somebody loves me!" Mr. Hatch sings as he dusts his living room. "Somebody loves me!" Mr. Hatch whistles as he does his errands in town. "But who, " Mr....

Author	Simon James
ISBN	0763625078

Simon James's story about the smartest baby in the world will have little ones howling with laughter and may have big ones smiling wryly with self-recognition.
It's never too early to start bringing up the smartest baby in the whole world. So thinks the expectant Mrs. Brains, who reads to the baby...

Author	Bill Peet
ISBN	0395313813

I am loving Bill Peet’s stories and I will look for more of them. He is so playful and he has that Disney flavor. He was an artist at the Disney studios for most of the big movies there and worked on them. He has a good ear for dialogue and his artwork is so playful and fun.

We see Zildy, a witch, as a character...

Author	Mary Pope Osborne
ISBN	0689825501

This feminist twist on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk really resonanted with me. I think this would so excellent to be included in a classroom for girls, and boys, to experience the idea that yes, girls can be heroines, even against great odds.
In this version, written by Mary Pope...

Author

Rob Scotton

It's the night before Christmas, and Splat wonders if he's been a good enough cat this year to deserve a really big present. Just to make sure, he offers some last-minute help to his mom and, in typical Splat fashion, he messes up completely! That night Splat stays awake hoping to see Santa Claus. But when...

Author	Jon Agee
ISBN	0803730942

We all know the joke. We've all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we've found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too—and they have some wacky and downright hilarious ideas about why that chicken really...

Author	Dan Yaccarino
ISBN	0805075321

Alfred and Rex talked for hours. Alfred said he liked sleeping in the sun, dog food, and scratching. Rex did too. Rex said he hated baths and going to the vet. Alfred did too.

A little pug dog learns he's lovable just the way he is.

Alfred the pug dog thinks he's unlovable. Other dogs make...

Author	Leslie Helakoski
ISBN	0525475753

When four big chickens see a wolf sneaking near their coop, they run into the woods to hide. But for a bunch of big chickens, running away from danger isn t as easy as it looks. As they continue on their way, they wonder: What if they get stuck in a ditch? What if they hit an iceberg in the lake? What if they step...

Author	Anthony Browne
ISBN	0744582407

Willy’s Pictures by Anthony Browne is a book about Willy who loves to paint pictures and gives readers the opportunity to explore his pictures and discover where imagination can lead us.
This is a vertically oriented picturebook. The book jacket looks like a sketchbook which is important to...