The Mountains of Tibet

Author	Mac Barnett
ISBN	0062393448

A dazzling picture book biography of Margaret Wise Brown, the legendary author of Goodnight Moon, Runaway Bunny, and other children’s classics, that is as fearless and groundbreaking as the icon herself was—from award-winning, bestselling author Mac Barnett and rising star illustrator Sarah...

Author	Yuyi Morales
ISBN	1596436034

A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2015 Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award

Frida Kahlo, one of the world's most famous and unusual artists is revered around the world. Her life was filled with laughter, love, and tragedy, all of which influenced what she painted on her canvases.

Distinguished...

Author	Aaron Becker
ISBN	0763665967

A girl grieves the loss of her dog in an achingly beautiful wordless epic from the Caldecott Honor–winning creator of Journey.

This year’s summer vacation will be very different for a young girl and her family without Sascha, the beloved family dog, along for the ride. But a wistful walk...

Author	Jessica Lanan
ISBN	1534415742

Although Jessica Lanan's picture book The Fisherman & the Whale depicts a both at first painful and then heartwarming wordless story of how one fisherman (and mostly at his young son's insistence) detangles a whale caught in and held fast by rogue fishing gear (and albeit that I have certainly found...

Author	Marianne Berkes
ISBN	1584690623

I put Over in the Ocean in my favorites tab because it is a great way to integrate poetry, rhyme, and song into the classroom. The illustrations are very colorful, intricate, and lively, which I think would really get the students engaged. It is a great way to teach counting and numbers as well because each...

Author

Jon J. Muth

It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner!

When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater...

Author	Oliver Jeffers
ISBN	0008357919

There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his.

“You are mine,” Fausto said to the flower, the sheep and the mountain, and they bowed before him. But they were not enough for Fausto, so he conquered a boat and set out to sea…

Working for the...

Author

Oliver Jeffers

SO Sweet! A father’s story explaining his world when his child is 2 months old.

I love this book. It does the macrocosm all the way to the day to day, not quite microcosm. It is powerful to show how small this little planet is in all that space and then when you see all the diversity and wonders on...