Mrs. Biddlebox

Author	Won-Ldy Paye
ISBN	0805070478

Mrs. Chicken has to think fast to outwit hungry Crocodile, who wants to eat her for dinner.

One morning Mrs. Chicken took her bath in a puddle.
“Cluck, cluck,” she said proudly. “What a pretty chicken I am!”

Mrs. Chicken can’t see her wings in the puddle, so she walks down...

Author	Emily Gravett
ISBN	1416939997

Yay! Finally an Emily Gravett book that I really like. (Thanks to my friends who encouraged me to read this one!) This one is so cute! The story is made up of four words (orange, pear, apple, bear) arranged in different ways to convey different meanings--the illustrations help a lot with conveying the...

Author	Mary Ann Hoberman
ISBN	0152024409

Five stars thanks to Marla Frazee's illustrations. I loved her work in All the World and am now a devoted fan. Her illustrations of family life just make me feel so happy! I am at once flooded with sweet memories of my own childhood and full of dreams for when I have kids of my own. She creates families and home-life...

Author	Audrey Wood
ISBN	0152253203

I thought this book was so much fun--and with a good message, too! I really, really enjoyed it. I think it's such a fanciful portrayal of how children pick up bad words and somehow manage to utter them in the most awkward of times--without really even premeditating it, they just slip out. I thought it was...

Author	Tim Egan
ISBN	0618631542

“Try to do as little as possible.” This was Dodsworth’s motto. One morning, on his daily trip to the junkyard, he discovers a pink refrigerator.

There’s not much to say about a pink refrigerator, except this one had a note on it. The note said, “Paint pictures.” And so Dodsworth...

Author	John Rocco
ISBN	1423100115

Young Eli Trebuckle is the "fixer of all things fixable." He fixes the vacuum cleaner, the fan, and even the radio, hoping to catch some news of his father who is away at war. But there's one thing that Eli simply can't fix-his bad dreams. It's the same one over and over again: a mountain of junk, a prize...

Author	Marie-Louise Gay
ISBN	0888999062

In this book in the Stella and Sam series, Marie-Louise Gay has gone back in time to answer the questions often asked by the children who read and love the books.


Where does Stella get her wild ideas? How big is Stella's imagination? What did Stella look like when she was small? How did Stella...

Author	George Ella Lyon
ISBN	1416927387

"Though poetic, Lyon's words are spare, never florid, for an elegantly powerful effect with silence built in, allowing readers space to use their own imaginations. Gammell's art begins with exuberant shades, but when the story enters the past, the pictures are as gray as Dorothy's Kansas until the...

Author	Emily Jenkins
ISBN	1423100751

Jenkins, E. (2008). The little bit scary people. Boiger, A. New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Children.

Genre: Children’s Picture Storybook (Multicultural)

A young girl comes across some “scary” people throughout her day. A cranky bus driver, a teen kicking a trash can, and...

Author	George Shannon
ISBN	0152060731

Snow is coming, coming soon, so Rabbit needs to find food fast. Just in time, a turnip turns up, and a second one, too. Who in the woods wouldn't want to tuck away an extra turnip for the long winter? Not Rabbit. He chooses a different path--and starts a wave of generosity that spreads among all his forest...

Author	Marla Frazee
ISBN	1442401672

From the moment he arrives, the new baby is The Boss. He holds lots of meetings, makes demands, has his own car and private jet, etc.--and, oh my gosh, the fun is in the accompanying illustrations that show him, for example, throwing a tantrum in his crib while Mom and Dad watch in terror (the "meeting")...

Author	Michaël Escoffier
ISBN	1592701310

We have a real winner here. This book is great.

From the page four, where the kid you're reading this with will look at you incredulously as the word "poo" appears, to its shocking surprise twist ending, you can't ask for better children's literature than this.

Leon is a chameleon. He...

Author	Benjamin Chaud
ISBN	1452114242

New York Times Notable Children's Book

"Sweet" has new meaning in this richly illustrated, immersive picture book about two bears on a big-city adventure. Papa Bear is searching for Little Bear, who has escaped the den. Little Bear is following a bee, because where there are bees, there is...

Author	Eve B. Feldman
ISBN	0399246517

Follow Billy and Milly through thirteen adventures in these funny and simple short stories. Through very basic storytelling, these brief narratives are told in only three or four words apiece. For example, ?Stoops (Billy and Milly sit on their front stoops as the ice cream truck drives by.), Hoops...

Author	Jeremy Tankard
ISBN	0545065704

Bird and Raccoon are playing ball, when Bird gets bonked on the head. "Boo hoo hoo!" he cries. What will make Bird feel better? A kiss? A cookie? A Band-Aid? Bird's friends Raccoon, Rabbit, Beaver, Sheep, and Fox are full of sweet and funny ideas.

Perfectly pitched and hilariously imagined,...

Author

Margie Palatini

Booklist (May 1, 2001 (Vol. 97, No. 17))
Gr. 4-8. Unless they spend a lot of time watching "Nick at Night,"kids (or even young parents) will be hard-pressed to recognize this parody of the TV show Dragnet. Happily, that doesn't matter, because this clever, funny book stands on its own. "This is the...

Author	Sarah L. Thomson
ISBN	0689852185

Imagine a night when you can ride your bike right up the stairs to your bed. Imagine a night when your toy train rumbles on its tracks out of your room and roars back in, full sized, ready for you to hop on for a nighttime adventure. Imagine a night when a farmer plays a lullaby on his fiddle, and his field of sunflowers...

Author	Karma Wilson
ISBN	0689838441

A funny story told in verse.
"Today is Grandma's birthday,
and Granddad has an itchin'
to bake a whopper chocolate cake
and traumatize the kitchen."

And bake and traumatize he does! Soon the ingredients ("two cups of sugar ain't enough. I'll put in twenty-three") outgrow...

Author	Alice Walker
ISBN	0060570806

There is a road
At the bottom
Of my Foot
Walking me.

In a beautifully poetic and gently provocative text, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker invites readers young and old to see the world -- and our place in it -- through new eyes.

Glowing colors and radiant images...

Author	David Slonim
ISBN	0811844307

What do you do with someone who won't get off the furniture? It's not someone who decides to couch surf or needs a place to stay overnight (Airbnb style). He's not a cat either. He just decides not to budge and he's moved into the house because "you" want that piece of furniture very badly. Nobody knows exactly...

Author	Peter H. Reynolds
ISBN	0763626236

"Just the message overscheduled families need in today's frantic world . . . delivered with humor and terrific artwork." -- John de Graaf, national coordinator, Take Back Your Time

Leo's list of things to do keeps growing, until one day he wishes, "If only there were two of me." Just as the...

Author	Denise Brennan-Nelson
ISBN	1585363421

Miss Hawthorn's room is neat and tidy, not a pencil or paintbrush is out of place. And that's how she likes it. And she likes trees that are colored green and apples that are painted red. Miss Hawthorn does not like things to be different or out of the ordinary. Into Miss Hawthorn's classroom comes young...