The Boss Baby

Author	Ed Emberley
ISBN	0316236535

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This classic interactive book that has been helping children chase away nighttime fears for 25 years is perfect for Halloween--and all-year round!
Caldecott Award-winner Ed Emberley has created an ingenious way for children to overcome bedtime frights. As...

Author	Jenny Offill
ISBN	0375870237

The ingenious author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore and a brilliant illustrator and production designer of the Coraline movie have created a hilarious, touching picture book perfect for young animal lovers. Like the Caldecott Medal-winning Officer Buckle and Gloria, Sparky stars a pet...

Author	Carter Goodrich
ISBN	1534400907

Celebrated artist and lead character designer of Brave, Ratatouille, and Despicable Me, Carter Goodrich, shows that sometimes, even the prickliest people—or the crankiest cacti—need a little love.

Hank is the prickliest cactus in the entire world. He sits in a pot in a window that faces...

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	Deborah Underwood
ISBN	0547215673

All quiet is not created equal. In this irresistibly charming picture book, many different quiet moments are captured, from the anticipation-heavy “Top of the roller coaster quiet” to the shocked-into-silence “First look at your new hairstyle quiet.” The impossibly sweet bears, rabbits,...

Author	Liz Garton Scanlon
ISBN	1416985808

The artwork in this poem is beautiful. I love how the sky and the sea seem to roil and roll. This is more a poem than a story. It is little scenes of a family and things they do together and each thing they are doing seems to be all the world. It appears this family is on vacation together, possibly. It looks...

Author	Peter Brown
ISBN	0316015482

Lucy, young bear, finds a very adorable creature (a little boy) in the woods one day and promptly brings it home to be her pet. Her mother warns that "children make terrible pets." But, Lucy is convinced that she and her boy will be very happy together. And they are--for awhile. But, when the boy goes...

Author	Candace Fleming
ISBN	0375866485

3.5 out of 5
A simple story with excellent pageturners, fun, rhythmic language, a sweet and very satisfying ending, and expressive Quentin Blake-like illustrations:


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Author

Kevin Henkes

Several creatures are having a bad day. Will they be able to turn their day around?

I don't always write a review of a short and simple book like this (the one-off kind we pick up by the dozen at the library, look through once or twice with The Boy and then return), but it left an impression on me. The...

Author	Mac Barnett
ISBN	0763696080

Book Reviewed by Stacey on www.whisperingstories.com

Circle is the third book in the children’s shapes trilogy by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. The first two books in the series were Triangle and Square.

One day friends Triangle and Square visited Circle. The three decided to play...

Author	Chris Barton
ISBN	0316007625

In this comparative piece that pits a shark against a train, the narrator poses numerous scenarios in which both will come head to head. Sometimes the shark seems to have the upper hand, while there are others that the coal-devouring train cannot be topped. There are others where it seems to be a draw....

Author

Jon Klassen

Hold on to your hats for the conclusion of the celebrated hat trilogy by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen, who gives his deadpan finale a surprising new twist.

Two turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat. . . . Evoking hilarity...

Author	Mem Fox
ISBN	0152045988

"Harriet You'll Drive Me Wild!" is a adorable book about a young girl name Harriet. This book is a contemporary realistic fiction aimed at preschool or school aged children. Throughout the book Harriet is being a handful for her mother. She breaks things and makes messes everywhere all day long.She...

Author	Mo Willems
ISBN	0061929573

Trixie and her family are off on a fantastic trip to visit her grandparents—all the way in Holland! But does Knuffle Bunny have different travel plans?

An emotional tour de force, Knuffle Bunny Free concludes one of the most beloved picture-book series in recent memory, with pitchperfect...

Author	Ame Dyckman
ISBN	0316226149

Not every child views the imposition of a new sibling as an interloper, but a fair number of them do. They’re just tooling along, enjoying the natural bliss that comes with being the one and only star in their parents’ firmament when BLAMMO! A squalling person of inadequate size is there, hogging...

Author	Corey Rosen Schwartz
ISBN	0399176330

This is the story you never heard about the twin you didn't know existed that discovered the best things in life were meant to be shared...or halved...or in thirds...or fourths. You get the drift....

Math takes a front seat in this fraction loving fairy tale, but the story is still superb! Cinderella...

Author	Anna Dewdney
ISBN	0670013269

These are kind of the quintessential children’s books that make people think they can write children’s books. This is a board book, and each page usually has one image and 3-5 words (i.e. "Llama llama touch").

The subject matter is not complicated. Things like your morning routine, your...

Author	Karen Katz
ISBN	1481442090

Vroom vroom! Here come the construction trucks in this new lift-the-flap book from Karen Katz featuring the cutest trucks you’ve ever seen.

Rumble! Rumble!
Here come the big trucks!

Look for bulldozers, dump trucks, and more in this adventurous lift-the-flap book from Karen...