Robot Zot!

Author	Cece Meng
ISBN	0618824154

From the moment Penny, Polly, and Molly hatch from their eggs, the whole farm knows they are truly tough chicks. They wrestle worms, rope roosters, and are often found under the hood of the tractor. All the other animals and even the farmer himself tell Mama Hen to make her chicks good. "They are good!"...

Author	James Howe
ISBN	0763644374

From the sure-footed duo of James Howe and Randy Cecil comes a hugely endearing new character in a humorous, heart-warming tale about holding on to your dreams.
Brontorina has a dream. She wants to dance. But Brontorina is rather large too large to fit in Madame Lucille s dance studio. Brontorina...

Author	Mac Barnett
ISBN	0786849584

Fed up with his continued refusal to clean his room and finish his baked peas, Billy Twitter's parents make good on their threat to buy him a blue whale. And so begins a hilariously surreal adventure, as Billy struggles to care for his new 100-foot pet, towing him around town on a skateboard, and disrupting...

Author	John Perry
ISBN	1582462682

WARNING! THIS IS NOT A BEDTIME STORY

Legend has it there exists a book that eats people.

This is that book!

Many readers have been unable to escape its perilous pages.
But this isn't that book.

Yes it is!

This is simply a story about that book.
Really....

Author	Mo Willems
ISBN	1423114361

Many readers of all ages already know and love Mo Willems from his series of books about Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and a few other animal characters. For St. Patrick’s Day we look at Willem’s book Big Frog Can't Fit In. It’s an oversized pop-up book featuring a bigger than life frog that has the problem...

Author

Meg Rosoff

Meet Jumpy Jack, a very nervous snail who's afraid of monsters, and Googily, who is a--well, who is a very good friend, indeed. Wherever they go, Googily kindly checks high and low just to make sure there are no scary monsters about. But as every child knows, monsters come in many shapes and sizes. Some...

Author	Martin Waddell
ISBN	0803734468

Here's a book that begs to be read aloud. From the very first "GRRRRRR!" and "ROAR!" of the Super Hungry Dinosaur, kids will be rooting for Hal to save his parents and his dog, Billy, from the huge beast. And Hal saves them in the most unusual way (hint: It involves spaghetti) in this delightful twist on the...

Author	Ursula Dubosarsky
ISBN	0374374287

In this uproarious update of a favorite story, an unexplained noise leads to pandemonium among the animals. The fox, the elephant, even the big brown bear prove no match for the Terrible Plop. Only the littlest bunny learns not to panic when the sky—or something else up there—is falling.

Bright,...

Author	Carolyn Parkhurst
ISBN	0312548486

As I work in the main branch of New York Public Library, sometimes I get to see the occasional celebrity. Not long ago, Mario Batali was in my children’s room with a carefully assembled group of adorable munchkins for a storytime photo op (he read Green Eggs and Ham and Bee-Bim Bop, in case you’re interested)....

Author	Kenn Nesbitt
ISBN	1402238355

"Once upon a time there was a story. It was a lovely story with absolutely NO BEARS in it-not a SINGLE BEAR anywhere."

"Then one day...MORE BEARS!"

KENN NESBITT is possibly the funniest and most sought-after children's poet writing today. When he's not writing, podcasting, updating...

Author	Kevin O'Malley
ISBN	0802721648

For any kid who wondered what happened to the Dude and his fair maiden once they lived happily ever after, the wait is over. When their teacher requests a new story, a boy and a girl once again have different ideas of how it should evolve. Can they agree on the fate of the beautiful queen, the awesome king,...

Author	Mini Grey
ISBN	0375955836

THAT SQUARE-JAWED CAN-DO action toy, Traction Man, is back in another hilarious adventure. The little boy, Traction Man, and his brave pet, Scrubbing Brush, are inseparable—until the boy’s father throws the “unhygenic” Scrubbing Brush in the trash and replaces it with a “real” toy,...

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	J.C. Phillipps
ISBN	0670010928

The happiest day of Wink's life was when he was accepted to the Summer Moon School for Young Ninjas. He is sure that he will be a great ninja. Silence is the fi rst lesson and everyone is very very silent . . . except for Wink. Stealth is the second lesson and everyone is very very stealthy . . . except for Wink....

Author	Carol Diggory Shields
ISBN	0525478655

Early one morning when the sun came out, Six woolly wombats went walkabout. This whimsical counting poem follows six brave little wombats on walkabout in the Australian outback. But the wilderness is bound to bring more excitement than an innocent counting game. Soon enough, the curious wombats learn...

Author

Kelly DiPucchio

Clink was a state-of-the-art robot with the dazzling ability to make toast and play music at the same time. But that was many years ago.

Now kids want snazzier robots who do things like play baseball and bake cookies. So day after day, Clink sits on a shelf and sadly watches as his friends leave...

Author	Linda Newbery
ISBN	1416971122

I'm in love with Posy. This is such a fun, sweet, delightful little book about a fun, sweet, delightful kitten! The illustrations are definitely a bit unusual in style, but I just adore them. And the text is very sparse, just two words per page, rhyming, but it completely captures all the variations in...

Author	Bob Shea
ISBN	0316013579

The simple wording and sparse illustrations combine to create a book that echo's the unexpected pleasure that comes from something as basic as NEW SOCKS!
By the end of the book I was recalling the thrill of all kinds of insignificant things I had reveled in when I first got them,
as a kid: new pajamas...

Author	Margaret McNamara
ISBN	0375866892

GREEP BOINK MEEP! The three little aliens are happily settling into their new homes when the Big Bad Robot flies in to crack and smack and whack their houses down! A chase across the solar system follows in this out-of-this-world version of the classic Three Little Pigs tale. Margaret McNamara (How Many...

Author	Margie Palatini
ISBN	0689802463

I don't want to say "I didn't like it," because it was entertaining. In addition, I don't even want to say "It was okay," because I choked on the first line of the first page, which states, ". . . grapes hanging from a vine growing high on a tree." I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure grapevines do not grow up...

Author	Barbara Knutson
ISBN	1575056577

One day, high in the Andes Mountains, Cuy the Guinea Pig is searching for wild spinach to eat when Tio Antonio the Fox comes in search of Cuy to eat! Tio Antonio thinks he's found dinner, but crafty Cuy has other plans. Quick-witted Cuy fools Tio Antonio not once, but three times. Combining striking wood...

Author	Matthew McElligott
ISBN	0802797687

When Ant receives a special invitation to dine with Lion, she is ready to be on her best behavior. During dessert, the other guests do not mind their manners, each one taking half of the remaining cake as it is passed around. By the time it reaches Ant, barely a crumb is left for her to share with the King! She...

Author	Chih-Yuan Chen
ISBN	1929132670

Originally published in Chih-Yuan Chen's native Taiwan, and inspired by the life-story of one of the author/artist's American friends, who was ethnically Korean, but adopted by a non-Korean family, Guji Guji follows the adventures of a young "crocoduck," as he finds his rightful place in the world,...