Regards to the Man in the Moon

Author	Bernard Waber
ISBN	0395174511

Filled my heart with joy. Poor little Lyle the crocodile is jealous of his human "brother" Joshua's birthday party. He is a good little crocodile, and tries desperately hard not to feel so envious, but he almost chokes on his own bitterness, watching Joshua opening his presents and blowing out the candles...

Author	Natasha Wing
ISBN	0448437473

The Night Before First Grade is a children's picture book written by Natasha Wing and illustrated by Deborah Zemke. It is a little girl named Penny, who is excited for first grade and to be reunited with her best friend Jenny, but to horror of horrors – they are not in the same classroom. As today is the...

Author	Sherry Garland
ISBN	0152014837

A girl takes a lotus seed to remember her country Vietnam, and flees to the U.S with her family. That lotus seed is a reminder of her homeland and is also there to calm her when she has troubles. That lotus seed is her symbol of hope. When she's a lot older and has many grandchildren, one of her grandsons takes...

Author

Leo Lionni

This is a story of a mouse named Matthew who lives in a dusty old attic with his parents. They don't have much but they want a better life for Matthew. He doesn't know what he wants to do when he grows up but he knows he wants "to see the world." One day when Matthew's class visits an art museum, his whole life is...

Author	Dean Koontz
ISBN	0399251979

It's great having a best friend to do everything with-but not so great when they go away. Trixie the golden retriever longs for her buddy Jinx the dachshund when Jinx goes on vacation. Lonely Trixie tries to find new friends, but discovers that spiders have no sense of humor and mice just can't appreciate...

Author	Il Sung Na
ISBN	0375961062

One day, he found the thingamabob.

He had no idea what it was or where it came from. . . .

So begins the story of a curious elephant and a mysterious red object. But what is it?! When none of his friends can tell him, the little elephant decides to experiment. He thinks: Maybe I can fly with...

Author	Anthony Browne
ISBN	0374349088

A small bear goes for a stroll in the park with his parents, leaving their bowls of porridge cooling on the kitchen table. Meanwhile, a girl with golden hair is hopelessly lost in a big, frightening city when she comes across a house with the door left invitingly open. Inside are three bowls of porridge...

Author	Marybeth Lorbiecki
ISBN	0140565345

It's the early 1960s, and Anna has never seen a person with dark skin before. At first she is afraid of her new second grade teacher, but she quickly discovers how wonderful Sister Anne is. Then one of Anna's classmates directs a racist remark toward Sister Anne. The teacher's wise way of turning the incident...

Author

Tonya Bolden

A Coretta Scott King Honor Award author offers a fresh look at this pioneering American innovator

Shampoo from peanuts? Wallpaper from clay? Ink from sweet potatoes? Discover Carver's imagination and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind biography.

With imagination and intellect,...

Author

Lester L. Laminack

"When I was nine or ten years old I couldn't wait for Saturdays."
In this poetic memory, a young boy rides his bicycle every Saturday up and down country roads past farms, a graveyard, and a filling station, until he reaches his beloved Mammaw's house. She is waiting for him. While she picks tomatoes,...

Author	Sharon Werner
ISBN	1934706787

Hooray! I found a Chanukah present for my favorite graphic artist. Just yesterday a student (K) asked me whether the book she was checking out was in cursive. She wanted to say "I CAN READ CURSIVE" but I would have loved to have this book to show her how in books authors use a variety of typeface. My favorite...

Author	Kristyn Crow
ISBN	0060839511

Splish splash

rumba-rumba

bim bam boom!

It's bedtime at the swamp—except somebody's not ready. Somebody's still splashing in the water and the mud.

Is there a monster on the loose?

Kristyn Crow has taken every child's worst nightmare and transformed...

Author	Johanna Kerby
ISBN	0399254358

Pink was the runt of the pig litter. He was so small that the Kerby family didn?t think he would survive? so they brought him into the house where he met Tink, a new dachshund mom. When Tink saw Pink, she immediately adopted him into her family, and helped nurse him back to health. Pink thrived in his new family:...

Author	Jan Peck
ISBN	0803718233

A TALL tale about the power of teamworkWhen sweet Little Isabelle?s family plants a carrot seed one day, tall Papa Joe, wide Mama Bess, and strong Brother Abel all do their part. But when Little Isabelle wants to help too, Brother Abel just laughs. ?What can you do?? he asks. ?I?ll sing and dance to the carrot...

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	Britta Teckentrup
ISBN	1905417691

Poor Cat! All the other kitties in the neighborhood don’t ask him to come play. He just seems so …grumpy. But really, he wants to join in the fun; he just doesn’t know how. Then, one night, in a terrible rainstorm, everything changes: out of nowhere, Cat hears a plaintive "meow" and finds a drenched...

Author	Laurence Anholt
ISBN	0812064097

"Where Camille lived, the sunflowers grew so high they looked like real suns. . .One day a strange man arrived in Camille's town. He had a straw hat and a yellow beard." So begins this fascinating tale of Camille, a little boy who is the son of a small-town postman. Camille meets the man with the yellow beard,...

Author	Julie Brinckloe
ISBN	0689710550

If you love something, set it free...

There's something magical about summer nights and fireflies, and this book will bring back memories for so many readers. In this story, a boy collects fireflies in a jar, but when he sees their lights start to dim as they grow weaker, he makes the right choice...

Author

Steven Kellogg

My favorite of Steven Kellogg’s picture books.

The good: Very simple story. Lovely wordless two-page spreads showing Arnold and his imagination. Excellent line drawings. I don’t even like Kellogg’s illustrations usually but these made me smile.

There’s no black or red:...

Author	David Elliott
ISBN	0763631698

An ever-patient kitty knits away with one watchful eye on three impish kittens in a charming tale that's purr-fect for bedtime — or anytime.

"Clickety-click.
Tickety-tick.
Knitty Kitty sits and knits."

What could Knitty Kitty be knitting? Something to keep three mischievous...

Author	David Soman
ISBN	0803734182

When Sam turns into Bumblebee Boy to defeat pirates, fight dragons, and tame saber-tooth lions, he doesn't need his little brother, Owen, butting in and ruining his adventures. Bumblebee Boy flies alone! But what happens when Bumblebee Boy comes face-to-face with more scary aliens than even he can...

Author	Brenda Z. Guiberson
ISBN	0805099611

No doubt about it, this book contains a lot of amazing sea creatures! Guiberson did an excellent job of selecting animals with unique properties and abilities. I was thinking " wow! " at every one. My vote for the most amazing, I think, goes to the box jellyfish, because I'm still trying to wrap my head around...

Author	David Wiesner
ISBN	0395629748

This is a child's book... and many people either in Florida, or who have evacuated -- friends and family across the state and around the world who have loved ones directly affected by the recent Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Harvey just a week ago...
... many adults - children
and animals are reaching...

Author

Edward Hemingway

It takes a firm apple to stand up to bullies.

When Mac, an apple, meets Will, a worm, they become fast friends, teaching each other games and even finishing each other's sentences. But apples aren't supposed to like worms, and Mac gets called "rotten" and "bad apple." At first, Mac doesn't know...

Author	Brinton Turkle
ISBN	0140547452

By switching the roles of the bears and the people in Goldilocks, Turkle has created a more realistic tale. The bear can act like a bear instead of living like a human. And the family of three (including a young Goldilocks) finds someone has been making mischief in their little log cabin while they were...