Tadpole's Promise

Author	Martin Waddell
ISBN	0744592704

4 Cuteness ★'s


Awe, I love owls! So when I saw this book at the store I just had to buy it for my little niece just so I could read it to her lol :) This book is pretty simple with some repetition, it uses great rhyming patterns and it's poetic. It is easy to understand and has real-life situations...

Author	Michael Rosen
ISBN	0689853491

A Scathing Review of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, aka "The Children's Guide to Passive Suicide"

Before we go any further, a little context:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpzxz...

There are plenty of children's books about self destructive impulses. In The Cat in the...

Author

Janet Ahlberg

'Each Peach Pear Plum' - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg - is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to...

Author	Jon Klassen
ISBN	0763655988

A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.

The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others....

Author	Julia Donaldson
ISBN	0333710932

My boy brought this to me a couple days ago, asking if I'd read it to him.

I did, and it's quickly become a new favorite.

It's not terribly complex, or long, or ethically enriching. But then again, not all books need to be.

What this book does have is a marvelously tight and deceptively...

Author	Julia Donaldson
ISBN	1407106171

Stick Man lives with his lady love and three stick children in the family tree. One day he's out for a jog and gets snatched by a dog, taken by a girl, found by a swan, and the adventures continue. What Stick Man really wants is to make it back home, but will he?

This is such an adventurous story and perfect...

Author	Drew Daywalt
ISBN	0399255370

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!

Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown. Blue needs a break from coloring all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange...

Author	Jeannie Baker
ISBN	0688089186

After really enjoying 'Belonging' I expected to love 'Window' just as much. Perhaps it was reading the authors note about ecological damage after reading in her last book how she collected sponges for her collage that made this seem a like an example of practise what you preach, but where I found 'Belonging'...

Author	Oliver Jeffers
ISBN	0399245030

From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day The Crayons Quit comes a humorously warm tale of friendship. Now also an animated TV special!

What is a boy to do when a lost penguin shows up at his door? Find out where it comes from, of course, and return it. But the journey to the South Pole is long...

Author	Alexis Deacon
ISBN	0374306672

The story of an alienated alien

Beegu's spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to understand her; windblown leaves won't stay still...

Author	Mini Grey
ISBN	0375831916

Traction Man—wearing combat boots, battle pants, and his warfare shirt—comes in a box, but very quickly finds the way into the imagination of his lucky boy owner. This superhero searches for the Lost Wreck of the Sieve as the boy makes a game of doing the dishes, and later in the bathtub, he conquers...

Author	Anthony Browne
ISBN	0744597978

A sweet story, with a few different connotations of real life and fairy tale mixed in. Beautifully illustrated, the story is very sweet. Little boy is delivering a cake made by mum, to Grandma who is 'doing poorly'. He has a rebellious moment when he takes the short cut through the forest when mum says not...

Author	Frank Cottrell Boyce
ISBN	1406333859

I really liked the format of this book: how it was printed on "notebook paper" and included the different Polaroid pictures that Chingis took in his many different journeys. It had a nice sense of mysteriousness about it as the author fumbles her way through learning about Chingis and Yergui and tries...

Author	Ross Collins
ISBN	0857633937

A rhyming bear book, which some rhymes I have seen in other bear books. But the illustrations were cute. And the emotions of the mouse will be fun to read aloud. The best part is the end! Almost an entire star for that ending. Must read in storytime--could work in toddler and preschool.

11/1/16-11/3/16...

Author	Mini Grey
ISBN	0224083627

A dog, a cat, and a mouse happily share a beach house UNTIL a mysterious stranger shows up one day, and begins sowing all sorts of discord. I love the look of this one, and Grey's illustrations are always a delight.

(view spoiler)[At first I thought the stranger was trying to drive the pals away...

Author	Steve Webb
ISBN	0439578442

Rhyming has never been so much fun as in Steve Webb's bold, new picture book, which encourages children to read aloud, following the easy and catchy rhythm of the text.

"Skunka Tanka
Skunka Tanka
Tanka Tanka Skunk!
They've got the beat, and so do their friends."

"Meet...

Author	Emily Gravett
ISBN	1405052155

Read in a Doctor's waiting room, this is a very cute children's picture book about Sunny the Meerkat who gets tired of his extended over-exuberant close knit family in the desert and goes off to visit relatives all over the world looking for a better place to live. He sends back a postcard from each place...

Author	Simon Bartram
ISBN	0763618977

Bob has a very important job on the Moon. But who's that in the
background making faces at him? Kids will laugh along at this strikingly illustrated tongue-in-cheek tale.
6:00 a.m. Wake up. Have two eggs for breakfast.
8:00 a.m. Arrive at launchpad. Change into special man-on-the-moon...

Author	Rachel Bright
ISBN	1408331594

This is such a great read! An inspiring book which could most certainly inspire so many children to face their fears and 'find their roar'. A little mouse is tired of being looked down upon and not being seen as tough enough, so wants to learn how to ROAR to be as big and scary as the lion. He seeks the help of...

Author	Morag Hood
ISBN	1509808949

Lee is a pea. All of his friends are peas; except Colin. Colin isn't a pea.

And so begins the deliciously funny story of two very different friends: a small green pea and a tall orange carrot stick. Colin the carrot can't do everything the peas can, but he has some special carrot-y qualities that...