The Read-Aloud Collection Introduction
Dear Parents and Educators,
Bring Me A Book™ Hong Kong is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting reading aloud to children. In the course of our work with parents, teachers and librarians, we are often asked to recommend books to get families and classrooms started. What you now hold in your hands is a home-grown guide, for your reference the next time you visit a library or bookstore.
We have compiled a collection of the best books for reading aloud, from birth to teenage years. Reading together is an activity to be enjoyed as soon as children are born, and certainly should not end when they become independent readers. Reading aloud to children develops their language and literacy skills. It also paves the way for a lifelong love of reading as well as a lifelong love of learning. Most importantly, it helps to strengthen the parent-child bond; and a stable, loving relationship with your child is the best determinant for his or her future success and happiness in school and in life.
In “The First 100 Books”, we have selected quality read-aloud books for babies and toddlers that can be enjoyed over and over. If your child has a particular area of interest, or you have life lessons you wish to impart, then look no further than our thematic guide, “Picture Books to Share”. For older children, we suggest “Chapter Books to Share”, and provide the ISBN for illustrated or read-aloud versions of these classic and contemporary stories.
A heartfelt thanks to our other committee members for their valuable time and invaluable insight into this guide: BMABHK founder Su Chen, prominent children’s book historian Leonard Marcus, renowned librarian Jeffrey Comer, literacy specialist Diane Frankenstein, children’s book author Christina Matula-Häkli, BMABHK board governor Gweneth Rehnborg and BMABHK executive director Pia Wong. And a big thanks to our eleventh-hour savior Michelle Bang for her proofreading help.
May your read-aloud journey be filled with adventure, laughter and discovery!
Annie Ho Chairperson Bring Me A Book Hong Kong March 2015 Table of Contents
First 100 Books: AGES 0-3
Picture Books to Share: AGES 4-8
Relationships: For Budding Artists ...... 34 Twists on the Familiar ...... 51 An Excuse for a Cuddle ...... 18 I Want to Dance ...... 35 Imagination / Drama ...... 52 Sweet Dreams ...... 19 For Maestros ...... 36 Just Plain Funny ...... 53 I Love My Family ...... 20 For Those Who Miss the Karaoke . . . 37 Brothers and Sisters ...... 22 Bookworm: Friends Forever ...... 23 Life Lessons: Wordless ...... 54 Animals Are My Friends ...... 24 Making a Difference ...... 38 Books and Words ...... 56 Our Home Our World ...... 39 Libraries ...... 58 Interests: Caring for Our World ...... 40 Writing Letters ...... 59 A Day in the Life of ...... 25 Starting School / Moving House . . . . 42 Poetry ...... 60 Tales of Adventure ...... 26 I Think I Can ...... 43 Biography / Non-fiction ...... 62 Princess Adventures ...... 28 I Am Different ...... 44 For Parents ...... 63 Pirates ...... 29 The Birds and the Bees / Dinosaurs ...... 30 Dollars and Sense ...... 46 Wheels and Wings ...... 31 When Things Are Bad ...... 47 Young Gourmet ...... 33 Fairy Tales / Folk Tales ...... 49
Chapter Books to Share
Ages 8-11, Timeless ...... 64 Ages 8-11, Contemporary ...... 66 Ages 11+, Timeless ...... 69 Ages 11+, Contemporary ...... 71 Short Story Collections ...... 73 First 100 Books
Airport Anno’s Counting The Baby’s Byron Barton Book Catalogue Ill: Byron Barton Mitsumasa Anno Allen Ahlberg ISBN: 978-0812455694 Ill: Mitsumasa Anno Ill: Janet Ahlberg From the excitement of ISBN: 978-0690012873 ISBN: 978-0141343365 arrival to the wonder A counting book Filled with easily of taking off, this bold and colorful book depicting the growth in recognizable objects, introduces young readers to the fun of the a village and surrounding countryside follow the daily lives of five different airport . over time . Gentle watercolor pictures families . By the award-winning Ahlberg encourage children to explore the husband and wife team . mathematical relationships that surround us .
Big Red Barn Black on White Blue Hat Green Hat Margaret Wise Brown Tana Hoban Sandra Boynton Ill: Felicia Bond Ill: Tana Hoban Ill: Sandra Boynton ISBN: 978-0694006243 ISBN: 978-0688119188 ISBN: 978-0671493202 Rhythmic text brought to Familiar shapes using Three earnest animals life by lively illustrations; bold, contrasting black and one misguided from the author of on white graphics, which turkey learn colors, Goodnight Moon . is ideal for infants’ under-developed clothes, and patterns . Featuring the best- Experience the cycle of a day on a farm, eyesight . selling author’s most famous animal where a family of animals peacefully plays characters . and sleeps .
Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones Byron Barton Ill: Byron Barton ISBN: 978-0690048254 With vibrant colors Parents are a child’s first and and simple rhythmic text, learn how paleontologists search for dinosaur bones most important teacher and put them back together in a museum .
04 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG AGES 0-3
Brown Bear, Brown Caps for Sale The Carrot Seed Bear, What Do You Esphyr Slobodkina Ruth Krauss See? Ill: Esphyr Slobodkina Ill: Crockett Johnson Bill Martin Jr ISBN: 978-0201091472 ISBN: 978-0060233501 Ill: Eric Carle This easy-to-read story When a little boy plants ISBN: 978-0805017441 about a peddler and a a carrot seed, everyone Eric Carle’s flat, boldly band of mischievous tells him it won’t grow . colored collages monkeys is filled with A tale of how a child’s combined with Bill Martin’s singsong text warmth and humor . conviction to stay strong coax readers to discover which animal and believe in himself in the face of doubt comes next . A classic for almost 50 years . is duly rewarded .
The Cat at Night The Cat in the Hat Chicka Chicka Dahlov Ipcar Dr. Seuss Boom Boom Ill: Dahlov Ipcar Ill: Dr. Seuss Bill Martin Jr and John ISBN: 978-1934031230 ISBN: 978-0394800011 Archambault See the world through a A timeless classic Ill: Lois Ehlert cat’s eye as he journeys that changed the way ISBN: 978-0671679491 at night through fields, children learned to read . “A told B, and B told farms, forests and even A visiting cat transforms C, I’ll meet you at the the city . Beautifully and a dull rainy day into a top of the coconut tree .” In bright and vividly illustrated . madcap adventure . lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree .
Close Your Eyes Color Surprises Color Zoo Kate Banks Chuck Murphy Lois Ehlert Ill: Georg Hallensleben Ill: Chuck Murphy Ill: Lois Ehlert ISBN: 978-0374313821 ISBN: 978-0689815041 ISBN: 978-0397322596 In this New York Times In this lift-the-flap book, A Caldecott Honor book Book Review ‘Best watch the colors explode introduces geometrical Illustrated Book’ winner, to reveal lively animal shapes and layers them a little tiger lays on his back in the tall shaped surprises . with cut-outs to reveal grass and is worried about what sleep animal faces . might bring .
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Daddy Cuddles Daddy Kisses Dear Zoo Anne Gutman and Anne Gutman and Rod Campbell Georg Hallensleben Georg Hallensleben Ill: Rod Campbell ISBN: 978-0811846745 ISBN: 978-0811839143 ISBN: 978-1416947370 The 25th anniversary edition of this classic lift- the-flap book is about a These best-selling board books show all the ways animal parents care for their little ones . youngster looking for a perfect pet . Sweet, comforting text paired with beautiful illustrations make these stories ideal read- alouds .
Dinosaur! Dinosaur Bones Dinosaur Roar! Peter Sis Bob Barner Paul and Henrietta Ill: Peter Sis Ill: Bob Barner Stickland ISBN: 978-0060759674 ISBN: 978-0811831581 Ill: Paul and Henrietta A wordless story about With a lively rhyming text Stickland a boy in the bath, his toy and vibrant paper collage ISBN: 978-1857142945 dinosaur, and the world illustrations, the author Published in conjunction with the Natural of imagination . dusts off the dinosaur bones found in History Museum, children learn about museums and reminds us that they once opposites with fun-filled rhymes and belonged to living, breathing creatures . bright illustrations .
Down by the Five Little Ducks Follow the Line Station Ill: Penny Ives Laura Ljungkvist Jennifer Riggs Vetter ISBN: 978-0859531412 Ill: Laura Ljungkvist Ill: Frank Remkiewicz A traditional sing along ISBN: 978-0670060498 ISBN: 978-1582462431 rhyme with innovative die Follow the line on a Little fans of trucks and cutting help to develop journey from the city to trains and boats and counting skills . the country, from the planes will love to sing this action-packed, sky to the ocean, from expanded version of the classic rhyme, morning till night . Each scene contains paired with happy and vibrant illustrations . questions designed to get children looking, counting, and thinking .
06 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG AGES 0-3
Good Night, Goodnight Moon Gossie and Gertie Gorilla Margaret Wise Brown Olivier Dunrea Peggy Rathmann Ill: Clement Hurd Ill: Olivier Dunrea Ill: Peggy Rathmann ISBN: 978-0060775858 ISBN: 978-0618176762 ISBN: 978-0399230035 In this classic of The lovely illustrated In this simple, yet visually children’s literature, the story of two duckling detailed book, a mischievous gorilla quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, best friends, their follows the zookeeper on his rounds and lulling illustrations combine to make a interactions, and how lets all of the other animals out of their perfect book for the end of the day . they learn to share . cages .
Growing Vegetable Happy Hippo, Angry Harold and the Soup Duck: A book of Purple Crayon Lois Ehlert Moods Crockett Johnson Ill: Lois Ehlert Sandra Boynton Ill: Crockett Johnson ISBN: 978-0152050559 Ill: Sandra Boynton ISBN: 978-0060229351 Together, a father and ISBN: 978-1442417311 One evening Harold child share the joys of Sandra Boynton’s decided to go for a walk planting, watering, watching seeds grow, clever animals exemplify a wide range in the moonlight, bringing and eventually making soup with their of emotions in this hilarious story about along his purple crayon . vegetables – a lesson on growing and different feelings . A story about the power of imagination nurturing living things . told in this timeless classic .
“Head, Shoulders, Honk Honk! Baa Hooray for Fish! Knees and Toes...” Baa! Lucy Cousins Ill: Annie Kubler Petr Horacek Ill: Lucy Cousins ISBN: 978-0859537285 Ill: Petr Horacek ISBN: 978-0763627416 This award-winning ISBN: 978-0763667801 From the creator of series has been What do the animals Maisy, a bright, vivid specifically designed say? Explore the book that shows for babies . A great introduction to books question in a colorful board book for the differences and through well-known nursery rhymes and babies, with mixed-media illustrations similarities of fish in the interactive text . and die-cut pages that are easy for small bright, blue sea . hands to turn .
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How Do You Feel? How many Bugs in a Huff and Puff Anthony Browne Box? Claudia Rueda Ill: Anthony Browne David A. Carter Ill: Claudia Rueda ISBN: 978-1406347913 Ill: David A. Carter ISBN: 978-1419701702 From a Hans Christian ISBN: 978-1416908043 This interactive retelling Andersen Award winning Inside each bright of the Three Little Pigs author, a child’s first box are innovative and elaborate paper story allows the reader to book about feelings . bugs that bring lots of laughs and fun to play the part of the big This book will reassure and help them counting from one to ten . bad wolf . understand how they feel, using simple words and pictures .
Hug I Can I Hear Jez Alborough Helen Oxenbury Helen Oxenbury Ill: Jez Alborough Ill: Helen Oxenbury Ill: Helen Oxenbury ISBN: 978-0763615765 ISBN: 978-1564025470 ISBN: 978-1564025487 A delightful mini odyssey of a baby chimpanzee on the hunt for his mom and a cuddle . I See I Touch Helen Oxenbury Helen Oxenbury Ill: Helen Oxenbury Ill: Helen Oxenbury ISBN: 978-1564025494 ISBN: 978-1564025500
Full of character and humor, these charming books form a winsome introduction to the senses, creativity and movement .
As a reading specialist, I can always tell which child has been read to because they come to school with a wealth of vocabulary, with a sense of books and a desire to read
Julie Fowlkes
08 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG AGES 0-3
I Like Books I’m a Big Brother I’m a Big Sister Anthony Browne Joanna Cole Joanna Cole Ill: Anthony Browne Ill: Rosalinda Kightley Ill: Rosalinda Kightley ISBN: 978-1406321784 ISBN: 978-0061900655 ISBN: 978-0061900624 An imaginative chimp samples books of various sizes and shapes in this book that encourages The author / artist creators of How I Was Adopted present this child’s-eye view of family the overlap of imaginative play, real life, deftly describing the joy of welcoming a new sibling into the family . activities, and reading .
Inside Outside It Looked Like Spilt Jamberry Upside Down Milk Bruce Degen Stan and Jan Charles G. Shaw Ill: Bruce Degen Berenstain Ill: Charles G. Shaw ISBN: 978-0060214166 ISBN: 978-0394811420 ISBN: 978-0060255664 A fun read-aloud and a Join the Berenstain Children are kept good poetry introduction . Bears as they get ready guessing what the object Follow a boy and his for a move . The simple is until the surprise bear friend through a art and rhyming text ending – and will be fantastic world of berries . make this a perfect choice for teaching encouraged to improvise similar games of spatial concepts . their own .
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Dr. Mark Williams
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Kiss Good Night A Kiss Like This Little Blue and Amy Hest Mary Murphy Little Yellow Ill: Anita Jeram ill: Mary Murphy Leo Lionni ISBN: 978-0763620943 ISBN: 978-0763661823 Ill: Leo Lionni A charming story with This is an adorable ISBN: 978-0375872907 vivid illustrations about compilation of animal A wonderfully satisfying the comforts of having a parents and babies story told with colorful bedtime routine . kissing, among them pieces of torn paper and very few words . giraffes, mice, fish, even bees . The This classic tale of friendship also offers a descriptions of the kisses will have kids playful introduction to color concepts . giggling with delight and the lift-the-flap layout and bright colors will appeal to young hands and eyes .
The Little Engine Little Gorilla Little Owl Lost That Could Ruth Bornstein Chris Haughton Watty Piper Ill: Ruth Bornstein Ill: Chris Haughton Ill: Loren Long ISBN: 978-0547238746 ISBN: 978-0763650223 ISBN: 978-0399244674 In this heartwarming tale, Little Owl has fallen from The classic tale of the young readers will be his nest, gets lost, and determined little engine comforted by the constancy of love for searches for his mother . that, despite its size, Little Gorilla, no matter what his size . Vibrant, retro artwork brings a fresh take triumphantly pulls a train full of toys to on this story . the waiting children on the other side of a mountain .
Lost and Found Oliver Jeffers Ill: Oliver Jeffers I have never met a child who ISBN: 978-0399245039 A gentle story of does not love being read to friendship coupled by modern watercolor images . A boy finds a penguin and rows Dr. Deborah Stipek him back home to the South Pole, while developing a deep bond with him along the way .
10 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG AGES 0-3
Mama Mama / Papa Max’s Bedtime Mix it Up! Papa Rosemary Wells Herve Tullet Jean Marzollo Ill: Rosemary Wells Ill: Herve Tullet Ill: Laura Regan ISBN: 978-0670887101 ISBN: 978-1452137353 ISBN: 978-0060519155 A sweet bedtime story From the author of Press Animal babies sing a of sharing between Max Here, a brilliantly fun and song of love to their and his ever-patient older interactive book that parents in this unique flip board book . sister, Ruby . teaches children about the properties of Read the gentle Mama Mama, then turn color . the book over to share the reassuring words of Papa Papa .
Mommy Hugs Mommy Loves Anne Gutman and Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben Georg Hallensleben ISBN: 978-0811839167 ISBN: 978-0811846165
These best-selling board books show all the ways animal parents care for their little ones . Sweet, comforting text paired with beautiful illustrations make these stories ideal read- alouds .
“More More More” The Most Amazing said the Baby Hide and Seek Vera B. Williams Alphabet Book Ill: Vera B. Williams Robert Crowther ISBN: 978-0688156343 Ill: Robert Crowther Join three pairs of ISBN: 978-0763650308 toddlers in a multi-ethnic This fun-filled interactive alphabet book environment showing the introduces letters and corresponding universality of love and affection from a animals . parent or grand-parent towards a child .
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Mr. Brown Can My Car My Friends Moo! Can You? Byron Barton Taro Gomi Dr. Seuss Ill: Byron Barton Ill: Taro Gomi Ill: Dr. Seuss ISBN: 978-0060560454 ISBN: 978-0811847865 ISBN: 978-0394806228 Bright, graphic artwork Translated from the best- A classic Dr . Seuss invites readers to count, selling Japanese picture book that encourages name colors and shapes, book, a little girl learns imaginative play while and follow Sam as he drives from his about the Earth from her introducing the joys of home in the country to his job in the city . friends, most of whom reading . are animals .
My Heart is Like a My Very First No, David! Zoo Mother Goose David Shannon Michael Hall Iona Opie Ill: David Shannon Ill: Michael Hall Ill: Rosemary Wells ISBN: 978-0590930024 ISBN: 978-0061915109 ISBN: 978-1564026200 Caldecott Honor winner An introduction to An award-winning that underlines the love feelings via zoo animals collection of treasured parents have for their using simple rhymes and rhymes compiled by children, even when they bold, graphic artwork . folklorist Iona Opie . misbehave .
Olivia Ian Falconer Ill: Ian Falconer ISBN: 978-0689829536 This book follows a day in the life of Olivia, an energetic and creative young pig, and shows children that a parent’s love is unconditional .
12 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG AGES 0-3
On Mother’s Lap One Red Dot Orange Pear Apple Ann Herbert Scott David A. Carter Bear Ill: Glo Coalson Ill: David A. Carter Emily Gravett ISBN: 978-0618051595 ISBN: 978-0689877698 Ill: Emily Gravett Michael’s favorite place From the author of How ISBN: 978-1442420038 to be is on Mother’s lap . Many Bugs in a Box?, An award-winning book It’s even cozier when he a visual hide and seek giving children a fun brings Boat, Dolly, and game with large 3-D way to learn about shapes, colors, and Puppy with him . But pop-ups . sequence, simply by re-arranging four what happens when Michael’s baby sister words . begins to cry?
Owl Babies Pajama Time Pete’s a Pizza Martin Waddell Sandra Boynton William Steig Ill: Patrick Benson Ill: Sandra Boynton Ill: William Steig ISBN: 978-1564021014 ISBN: 978-0761119753 ISBN: 978-0062051578 A comforting tale about From the best-selling From a multiple award three baby owls who author of Barnyard winning author, this book miss their mother when she goes out in Dance!, a rhythm packed details the imaginative search of food . book about getting ready play (pizza making) for bed . between a father and son on a rainy day .
Planting a Rainbow Lois Ehlert Ill: Lois Ehlert ISBN: 978-0152046330 This educational and enjoyable book, with bold collage illustrations, helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth .
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The Rainbow Fish Roaring Rockets Rosie’s Walk Marcus Pfister Tony Mitton Pat Hutchins Ill: Marcus Pfister Ill: Ant Parker Ill: Pat Hutchins ISBN: 978-1558580091 ISBN: 978-0613888578 ISBN: 978-0027458503 A simple story about a A witty book about A classic since 1968, beautiful fish who learns rockets with bright and with simple text and to make friends by bold illustrations; great elaborate illustrations detailing Rosie the sharing his most prized for all children interested hen and how she unwittingly thwarts the possessions . in outer space . fox’s attempts to catch her .
Saffy and Ollie Say Goodnight Say Please! (Little Paola Opal Helen Oxenbury Princess BOOKS) Ill: Paola Opal Ill: Helen Oxenbury Tony Ross ISBN: 978-1897476697 ISBN: 978-0689819872 Ill: Tony Ross A book about the joys A group of four babies of ISBN: 978-1933605166 of sharing, with simple assorted ethnic origins In her sixth hilarious rhythmic text and sweet play together with such adventure, the Little characters . enthusiasm that they often fall off the Princess forgets and then remembers pages . her manners, and learns that “please” and “thank you” are important words for everyone, not just royalty .
Share! “Slowly, Slowly, Tails Anthea Simmons Slowly,” Said the Matthew Van Fleet Ill: Georgie Birkett Sloth Ill: Matthew Van Fleet ISBN: 978-1849392952 Eric Carle ISBN: 978-0152167738 Two cheeky siblings Ill: Eric Carle Tails are irresistible to learn how to share in ISBN: 978-0399239540 toddlers, and in this this funny and endearing With a foreword by Jane sturdy touch-and-feel board book, they picture book . Goodall, this book about can finally tug to their heart’s content . a slow-moving sloth helps children to understand that some animals (and people) move at their own pace .
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Ten Black Dots Ten, Nine, Eight There was an Old Donald Crews Molly Bang Lady Who Ill: Donald Crews Ill: Molly Bang Swallowed a Fly ISBN: 978-0688060671 ISBN: 978-0688009069 Simms Taback Count all the way to A tender story of a father Ill: Simms Taback ten and delight in the and daughter’s rhyming ISBN: 978-0670869398 simple rhymes, everyday bedtime game . A Caldecott Honor medal objects, and stunning winning take on the classic nursery rhyme, graphics . with inventive die-cut artwork, witty quips, and humorous illustrations .
There’s Going To Be This Little Chick The Tiger Who Came a Baby John Lawrence to Tea John Burningham Ill: John Lawrence Judith Kerr Ill: Helen Oxenbury ISBN: 978-0606315999 Ill: Judith Kerr ISBN: 978-0763649074 Head out for some ISBN: 978-0763645632 Follow the swirl of farmyard fun in this finely A British classic since questions in the mind of crafted re-telling of the 1968, this is a story of a young child who is anticipating a new traditional nursery rhyme, illustrated with an unexpected guest at sibling with excitement, curiosity, and just beautiful engravings . tea time . a bit of trepidation .
Time for Bed Time to Sleep, Sheep Mem Fox the Sheep! (cat the Ill: Jane Dyer cat) ISBN: 978-0152881832 Mo Willems This loving book, with Ill: Mo Willems its rhythmic verse ISBN: 978-0061728471 and gentle watercolor From the author of the illustrations, will lull Elephant and Piggie toddlers to sleep . series, join Cat the Cat and friends as they get ready for bed .
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The Very Hungry Way Down Deep in We’re Going on a Caterpillar the Deep Blue Sea Bear Hunt Eric Carle Jan Peck Michael Rosen Ill: Eric Carle Ill: Valeria Petrone Ill: Helen Oxenbury ISBN: 978-0399208539 ISBN: 978-0689851100 ISBN: 978-0689504761 The best-selling classic book about a A story on the wonders A story about a father caterpillar’s journey from egg, to cocoon, of imaginative play to and his four children looking for a bear to eventual butterfly . be found in your own across sweeping landscapes, told with bathtub . tremendous pace and humor .
What’s on my Head? What’s Your Sound, The Wheels on the Margaret Miller Hound the Hound? Bus ISBN: 978-0689819124 Mo Willems Paul O. Zelinsky Captivating photographs Ill: Mo Willems Ill: Paul O. Zelinsky showing multi-ethnic ISBN: 978-0061728440 ISBN: 978-0525446446 babies with a variety From the author of the A best-selling retelling of a classic with of expressions and Elephant and Piggie clever characters, sly subplots, luscious emotions . series, join Cat the colors, and the great fun of its moving Cat and friends as they learn about the parts . different sounds that animals make .
Where is Baby’s Belly Button? You’re never too old, too wacky, Karen Katz Ill: Karen Katz too wild, to pick up a book and ISBN: 978-0689835605 Adorable babies play read to a child peekaboo in this delightful interactive book . Dr. Seuss
16 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG AGES 0-3
Where is Maisy? Where is the Green Where’s Spot? Lucy Cousins Sheep? Eric Hill Ill: Lucy Cousins Mem Fox Ill: Eric Hill ISBN: 978-0763646738 Ill: Judy Horacek ISBN: 978-0399207587 By award-winning ISBN: 978-0152049072 In Spot’s first adventure, author-illustrator Lucy Children can help children can join in Cousins, Maisy’s favorite find the green sheep the search for the hunt-and-find adventure is now re-issued while learning a lesson on colors and mischievous puppy by lifting the flaps on with a happy lift-the-flap board book . comparisons . every page to see where he is hiding .
Whistle for Willie Who Sank the Boat? Yum Yum Dim Sum Ezra Jack Keats Pamela Allen Amy Wilson Sanger Ill: Ezra Jack Keats Ill: Pamela Allen Ill: Amy Wilson Sanger ISBN: 978-0670880461 ISBN: 978-0812447729 ISBN: 978-1582461083 From the Caldecott A simple story filled with A book in the World Medal winning author of suspense and a lesson Snacks series, this book The Snowy Day . This is on what makes things introduces a scrumptious the story of Peter, who longs to whistle sink or float . parade of Chinese delights, from oolong for his dog, with illustrations that vividly tea and dumplings to sticky rice and pork portray a multi-cultural, urban setting . buns .
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all
Jacqueline Kennedy
17 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG Picture Books to Share
AN EXCUSE FOR A CUDDLE
The Giving Tree Guess How Much I I Will Hold You ’Til Shel Silverstein Love You You Sleep Ill: Shel Silverstein Sam McBratney Linda Zuckerman ISBN: 978-1846143830 Ill: Anita Jeram Ill: Jon J. Muth Shel Silverstein has ISBN: 978-0763641757 ISBN: 978-0439434201 created a moving parable A soothing bed-time The power and meaning for readers of all ages story about a young of love is found in that offers an affecting rabbit searching for ways the simple, heartfelt interpretation of the gift of giving and a to tell his father that he promises that parents make to their serene acceptance of another’s capacity loves him . children . That’s the premise of this to love in return . sentimental and visually impressive book .
Koala Lou Love You Forever A New Year’s Reunion Mem Fox Robert Munsch Yu Li Qiong Ill: Pamela Lofts Ill: Sheila McGraw Ill: Zhu Chen Liang ISBN: 978-0152005023 ISBN: 978-0920668368 ISBN: 978-0763658816 When Koala Lou’s A sentimental and tear- The family’s poignant mother becomes so busy inducing tale about a backstory makes this taking care of younger parent’s unconditional Chinese New Year story siblings that she forgets love for a child, this story has sold more remarkably beautiful . A to tell her firstborn how much she loves than 15 million copies and touched the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s her, Koala Lou believes winning the Bush hearts of new parents worldwide . Book of 2011, its Chinese version won Olympics will win her mother’s love and the Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture attention . Book Award .
No Matter What Debi Gliori Ill: Debi Gliori ISBN: 978-0152020613 A book is a gift you can open again Gliori explores a child’s anxiety about the limits and again of a parent’s love, especially whether it can survive a bout of pint- Garrison Keillor size bad behavior .
18 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG AGES 4-8
SWEET DREAMS
How to Catch a I Need My Monster Is it bedtime, Star Amanda Noll Wibbly Pig? Oliver Jeffers Ill: Howard McWilliam Mick Inkpen Ill: Oliver Jeffers ISBN: 978-0979974625 Ill: Mick Inkpen ISBN: 978-0399242861 A fun night-time read for ISBN: 978-1444903959 A story about a boy who older children, especially The perfect bedtime loves stars so much those who enjoy a bit of companion for young that he wants one for himself . Just when shiver as they are tucked children . A charming story with the familiar the boy is ready to give up on trying to in to bed . Wibbly Pig, currently an animated film on catch a star, he learns that sometimes television, who does things every toddler things aren’t where, or what, we expect can relate to . them to be .
The Napping House Sleep like a Tiger Tell Me the Day Audrey Wood Mary Logue Backwards Ill: Don Wood Ill: Pamela Zagarenski Albert Lamb ISBN: 978-0152014179 ISBN: 978-0547641027 Ill: David McPhail Pull on your sleeping In this magical bedtime ISBN: 978-0763650551 cap and snuggle in for a story, the lyrical narrative In this delightful bedtime timeless cumulative tale echoes a cadence that is reminiscent story, a young bear tells that’s truly like no other . of Runaway Bunny . A 2013 Caldecott his mama all about his exciting day – in The CD begins with a reading of the story Honor Book . reverse – inspiring little listeners to do the and follows with six original songs . same .
When Sheep Cannot The World Sleep Champion of Satoshi Kitamura Staying Awake Ill: Satoshi Kitamura Sean Taylor ISBN: 978-1435294875 Ill: Jimmy Liao When Wooly the sheep ISBN: 978-0763649579 suffers from insomnia, he When Stella’s toy animals goes for a walk and gets refuse to go to sleep, she comes up with into just about everything . Each illustration a clever plan using her keen imagination . features objects for children to count .
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I LOVE MY FAMILY
Baby Brains Blackout The Day I Swapped Simon James John Rocco My Dad for Two Ill: Simon James Ill: John Rocco Goldfish ISBN: 978-0763636821 ISBN: 978-1423121909 Neil Gaiman Mr . and Mrs . Brains Rocco’s sublime account Ill: Dave McKean dream of birthing the of a city blackout reveals ISBN: 978-0060587017 smartest baby in the a bittersweet truth: it What if you wanted whole world, and sometimes takes a crisis your best friend’s two goldfish so much unexpected adventures to bring a family together . A Caldecott that you’d swap anything for them, even abound when it comes true . An award- Honor Book . your father? This hilarious adventure is winning bestseller that is silly and acclaimed author Neil Gaiman’s first book delightful . for young readers .
Gaston Grandpa Green The Hello, Goodbye Kelly DiPucchio Lane Smith Window Ill: Christian Robinson Ill: Lane Smith Norton Juster ISBN: 978-1442451025 ISBN: 978-1596436077 Ill: Chris Raschka A bulldog and a poodle A Caldecott Honor Book ISBN: 978-0786809141 learn that family is about that explores aging, This is a love song love, not appearances in memory, and the bonds of family history devoted to that special this adorable doggy tale . and love; touching and whimsical, it’s a relationship between stunning picture book that parents and grandparents and grandchild . Told in the grandparents will be sharing with children child’s voice, her story is both a voyage for years to come . of discovery and a celebration of the everyday wonders of childhood .
Horton Hatches How to Raise Mom the Egg and Dad Dr. Seuss Josh Lerman Ill: Dr. Seuss Ill: Greg Clarke ISBN: 978-0394800776 ISBN: 978-0525478706 Told with Dr . Seuss’s A girl offers her younger signature rhymes and brother some advice trademark illustrations, for dealing with their this is a tale that will be parents . The humorous enjoyed over and over . And don’t miss scenarios will also appeal to parents, another delightful tale about this beloved who will recognize their own child-raising and faithful pachyderm: Horton Hears a challenges . Who!
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I LOVE MY FAMILY
Leo’s Dream Make Way for Nana Upstairs and Antonie Schneider Ducklings Nana Downstairs Ill: Helga Bansch Robert McCloskey Tomie dePaola ISBN: 978-0747581840 Ill: Robert McCloskey Ill: Tomie dePaola When Leo’s parents are ISBN: 978-0670451494 ISBN: 978-0399231087 too busy to spend time Awarded the Caldecott Originally published with him, this imaginative Medal in 1941, this in 1973, this boy dreams about how brilliantly illustrated, autobiographical picture much better it would amusingly observed tale book was one of the first be if his family were all of mallard ducks on the move has won to introduce very young children to the animals instead . the hearts of generations of readers . concept of death . This tender story about loving family relationships is now reprinted in full-color .
Family: where life begins and love never ends
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BROTHERS AND SISTERS
The Big Alfie and Big Brother, Little Big Sister, Little Annie Rose Brother Sister Storybook Penny Dale LeUyen Pham Shirley Hughes Ill: Penny Dale Ill: LeUyen Pham ISBN: 978-0099750307 ISBN: 978-0744569537 ISBN: 978-0786851829 This gorgeous storybook When Little Brother cries, Pham writes from is full of snapshots of the Big Brother knows why . A tale of brotherly the younger child’s family life of two hugely love that doesn’t always run a smooth perspective about the appealing pre-schoolers, course . pros (when the nighttime from breakfast to bedtime and from route to the bathroom proves too terrifying birthdays to walks in the park . to brave alone) and cons (hand-me- downs, getting bossed around) of having a big sister .
Chimp and Zee Chloe, Instead Flora’s Very Windy Catherine and Micah Player Day Laurence Anholt Ill: Micah Player Jeanne Birdsall ISBN: 978-1845078485 ISBN: 978-0811878654 Ill: Matt Phelan When Chimp and Zee, a Molly always dreamed ISBN: 978-0618986767 pair of rascally monkeys, of having a sister who is Flora is presented with accompany “Mumkey” just like her . But she got the opportunity of a into Jungletown to shop Chloe instead, and Chloe is nothing like lifetime: the chance to for bananas, they find Molly . A warm story about love between give her her pesky little brother, Crispin, themselves on a bigger siblings with different personalities . away . The choice turns out not as easy as adventure than they ever the expected . intended .
Oliver and the You’re All My Noisy Baby Favourites Mara Bergman Sam McBratney Ill: Nick Maland Ill: Anita Jeram ISBN: 978-0340997468 ISBN: 978-0763624422 Oliver’s baby sister won’t This story explores stop crying . Oliver gets in his plane and what happens when, one day, three little travels to distant lands to get away from bears wonder: What if my parents like my the noise . This imaginative story will be brother or sister better than me? appreciated in families welcoming a new addition to the household .
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FRIENDS FOREVER
Amos and Boris City Dog, Country Corduroy William Steig Frog Don Freeman Ill: William Steig Mo Willems Ill: Don Freeman ISBN: 978-0374302276 Ill: Jon J. Muth ISBN: 978-0812427110 Caldecott medalist ISBN: 978-1423103004 A winning, completely William Steig brings two Working together for the childlike picture book heroes – Amos the mouse and Boris the first time, these award- in which a stuffed bear whale – to life in this tender yet comical winning authors have produced a fresh waiting hopefully in a toy department finds story of friendship . and timeless book that brings the joy of a home with a little girl . Follow-up with A unexpected friendship and the beauty of Pocket for Corduroy . the seasons into focus .
Farmer Duck My Friend Bear A Sick Day for Amos Martin Waddell Jez Alborough McGee Ill: Helen Oxenbury Ill: Jez Alborough Philip C. Stead ISBN: 978-0763651121 ISBN: 978-0613747226 Ill: Erin E. Stead A poor duck is Following Where’s My ISBN: 978-1596434028 overworked by a lazy Teddy? and It’s the Caldecott Medal winner farmer until the duck’s Bear!, this is the third about a zookeeper who farm friends mete out book in a series about becomes a reliable friend of the animals . their own brand of barnyard justice . This Eddie and his teddy bear When Amos McGee is too sick to make it uplifting modern fable is created in a very Freddie . to the zoo, his animal friends decide it’s special collaboration between two beloved time they returned the favor . award-winners .
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Eleanor Roosevelt
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ANIMALS ARE MY FRIENDS
Animals Should Friends – True George and Martha Definitely Not Stories of James Marshall Wear Clothing Extraordinary Ill: James Marshall Judi Barrett Animal Friendships ISBN: 978-0395166192 Ill: Ron Barrett Catherine Thimmesh Two lovable hippos teach ISBN: 978-0833513373 ISBN: 978-0547390109 the meaning of friendship Pictures of animals What makes a camel in five separate vignettes: wearing clothes show why this would be friends with a Vietnamese pig? Or a Split Pea Soup, The Flying Machine, The a ridiculous custom for them to adopt: wild polar bear pals with a sled dog? In Tub, The Mirror, The Tooth . “ . . because a snake would lose it, a billy this young preschool book, Catherine goat would eat it for lunch, and it would Thimmesh makes us wonder at the truth always be wet on a walrus!” and mystery of unlikely animal friendships .
Hairy Maclary Hey! Get off Our Me…Jane from Donaldson’s Train Patrick McDonnell Dairy John Burningham Ill: Patrick McDonnell Lynley Dodd Ill: John Burningham ISBN: 978-0316045469 Ill: Lynley Dodd ISBN: 978-0517882047 The story of the young ISBN: 978-0613501309 This witty, pointed story Jane Goodall and her Hairy Maclary is New Zealand’s favorite about how a boy and his stuffed-toy dog special childhood toy chimpanzee named dog . This first title from a series of stories rescue various endangered animals during Jubilee . Anecdotes taken directly from introduces the diminutive black dog and a nighttime trip aboard a toy train, won a Goodall’s autobiography makes this very a host of canine pals in a cumulative text number of book awards . Only Burningham true story accessible for the very young . full of rhythm and rhyme . could make an ecological fable so much fun .
The Mitten Six Dinner Sid The Story about Jan Brett Inga Moore Ping Ill: Jan Brett Ill: Inga Moore Marjorie Flack ISBN: 978-0399231094 ISBN: 978-0671731991 Ill: Kurt Wiese A folk tale from the Inga Moore knows her ISBN: 978-0448482330 Ukrainian tradition about cats . This award-winning This sweet tale of a what ensues when Nicki loses the pure tale, about a conniving little duck alone on white mittens that his grandmother has kitty who finds bed and the Yangtze River is accompanied by knit for him . board with six different wonderfully rich and colorful illustrations . families, combines witty wordplay and First published in 1933, this classic gentle humor . children’s book is still as delightful and relevant as ever .
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF...
April and Esme, Diary of a Wombat Let’s Do Nothing! Tooth Fairies Jackie French Tony Fucile Bob Graham Ill: Bruce Whatley Ill: Tony Fucile Ill: Bob Graham ISBN: 978-0618381364 ISBN: 978-0763634407 ISBN: 978-0763646837 A tongue-in-cheek An original story about Two young tooth fairies account of a particularly two boys who, after make their first lost- articulate wombat and his busy week of having “played every tooth collection in eating, sleeping, digging holes . This book sport and board game Bob Graham’s warm, is an Australian classic . invented, baked and eaten batches of whimsical tale . cookies, and painted a zillion pictures”, attempt to do nothing, to hilarious consequence .
Minerva Louise Moomin and the Richard Scarry’s Janet Morgan Stoeke Birthday Button Busy, Busy Town Ill: Janet Morgan (moomins series) Richard Scarry Stoeke Tove Jansson Ill: Richard Scarry ISBN: 978-0525443742 Ill: Tove Jansson ISBN: 978-0307168030 The inspired silliness of ISBN: 978-0374350505 What do people do all this feather-brained fowl The Moomins are day? Richard Scarry is introduced in this first Finland’s most popular uses comical characters book of a series . children’s characters . Readers will and colorful details to introduce readers to be amused to see that even in placid the inner workings of Busytown; perfect Moominvalley, lovable Moomintroll’s for inquisitive youngsters . birthday can be an emotional roller- coaster .
The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats Ill: Ezra Jack Keats ISBN: 978-0670654000 Winner of the 1963 Every day may not be good, Caldecott Medal, this universally appealing story pays homage but there is something to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed good in every day in snow .
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TALES OF ADVENTURE
Children of the Come Away From Curious George Forest the Water, Shirley H.A. Rey and Margaret Elsa Beskow John Burningham Rey Ill: Elsa Beskow Ill: John Burningham ISBN: 978-0395159934 ISBN: 978-0863150494 ISBN: 978-0099899402 This treasured classic is A classic tale about a From one of the best- where it all began for the miniature family who live loved illustrators of our time, this is an curious, lovable monkey in the forest, it introduces readers to the enchanting look at what goes on in a young that was taken from the natural world and the concept of changing girl’s imagination during an ordinary trip to jungle by the man in the yellow hat to live seasons . the beach with her parents . The story is in in a new home . the pictures rather than in the text .
The Dark Eloise The Gruffalo Lemony Snicket Kay Thompson Julia Donaldson Ill: Jon Klassen Ill: Hilary Knight Ill: Axel Scheffler ISBN: 978-0316187480 ISBN: 978-0671223502 ISBN: 978-0333710920 This is the story of how Eloise is a little girl who Young readers will Laszlo stops being lives at The Plaza Hotel love the humor in this afraid of the dark . With in New York . This best- preposterous story of emotional insight and selling story is the first a quick-thinking mouse poetic economy, two of a series about the who talks himself out of award-winning talents team up to conquer adventures of the confident little girl and his difficult predicaments . The repetitious a universal childhood fear . the hotel’s staff and guests . rhyming text is delightful .
If I Were a Lion Louise, The Madeline Sarah Weeks Adventures of a Ludwig Bemelmans Ill: Heather M. Solomon Chicken Ill: Ludwig Bemelmans ISBN: 978-0689848360 Kate Dicamillo ISBN: 978-0670445806 A book for every child Ill: Harry Bliss This Caldecott Honor who’s ever been sent ISBN: 978-0060755546 Book, about a visit to to the time-out chair – A picture book in four the hospital, was first unjustly . . or otherwise! The chapters in which a thrill- published more than little girl whose imagination runs rampant seeking chicken repeatedly leaves her sixty years ago . The when confined is reminiscent of Maurice henhouse for adventures . Written by Kate drawings have presented an authentic Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are . DiCamillo, acclaimed author and U .S . Paris and the rhymes make it a story that National Ambassador for Young People’s children will enjoy repeating . Literature .
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TALES OF ADVENTURE
The Secret The Story of Babar The Tale of Peter Shortcut Jean De Brunhoff Rabbit Mark Teague Ill: Jean De Brunhoff Beatrix Potter Ill: Mark Teague ISBN: 978-0394805757 Ill: Beatrix Potter ISBN: 978-0756942366 Translated from its ISBN: 978-0723263920 Wendell and Floyd are original French, the First published more always late for school, adventures of the world’s than a century ago, this and give the most unbelievable excuses . most popular elephant classic tale is the first of Given one last warning by their teacher and his friends in this a series that include tales to be on time, they get up early the next collection of classic Babar tales have about Peter Rabbit’s day and take a secret shortcut that leads delighted readers for generations . family and friends . them on a wild adventure .
The Three Robbers Tiddler The Velveteen Tomi Ungerer Julia Donaldson Rabbit Ill: Tomi Ungerer Ill: Axel Scheffler Margery Williams ISBN: 978-0714848778 ISBN: 978-0439943772 Ill: William Nicholson One bitter, black A salute to stories ISBN: 978-0385077255 night, three ferocious and how they travel, First published almost highwaymen meet their the wonderful team of Donaldson and a century ago, this is match in a spunky Scheffler deliver another hit with rhythmic the poignant and heart- orphan named Tiffany . text and expressive characters in warming story of a toy, An international bestseller about how appealing colors . sawdust-filled rabbit who wishes with all good triumphs over evil in a delightfully his heart to become real . unexpected way .
When a Dragon Where the Wild Winnie the Witch Moves In Things Are Valerie Thomas Jodi Moore Maurice Sendak Ill: Korky Paul Ill: Howard McWilliam Ill: Maurice Sendak ISBN: 978-0192793065 ISBN: 978-0979974670 ISBN: 978-0370007724 An imaginative story This masterful and The iconic Caldecott about what happens fun tale of imagination Medal winner is 50 years when Winnie the and emotion captures the childhood old, and still continues to be one of the Witch gives her black experience of wanting a little extra best loved books of all time the world over . cat a technicolor attention – to have our inner dragon rear transformation . his head and demand to be noticed .
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PRINCESS ADVENTURES
Arthur’s Tractor I Want a Friend The Paper Bag Pippa Goodhart Tony Ross Princess Ill: Colin Paine Ill: Tony Ross Robert Munsch ISBN: 978-0747564782 ISBN: 978-0007214914 Ill: Michael Martchenko Colorful cartoons tell the The first day at school ISBN: 978-1550379150 background story of the for Tony Ross’ best The famous tale of a princess’s dilemma, while loved character, the Little dragon, a princess the text relates Arthur’s Princess, and she has a hard time making named Elizabeth, and the bum of a prince tractor troubles, until the very end when friends . Written with the child’s insight and she rescues . This special edition includes the two come together . This clever tale anarchic humour that characterises this more than 30 pages of never-before will appeal to children who love a tale with brilliant series . published behind-the-scenes features . a twist .
The Princess and The Princess The Princess Who the Pea Knight Had No Kingdom Hans Christian Cornelia Funke Ursula Jones Andersen Ill: Kerstin Meyer Ill: Sarah Gibb Ill: Maja Dusikova ISBN: 978-0439536301 ISBN: 978-0807566305 ISBN: 978-0863158575 This is a winning tale Once there was a princess This classic fairy tale is about a spirited young who had no kingdom . All wonderfully brought to princess who disguises she had was a pony and life with soft, colourful herself as a knight in cart, and a red umbrella to keep her dry illustrations by popular illustrator Maja order to enter a jousting from the rain . A wise and witty modern-day Dusikova . tournament . fairy tale brought magically to life through Sarah Gibb’s exquisite art .
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish
S.I. Hayakawa
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PIRATES
Grumpy Little King How I Became a The Pirate Michel Streich Pirate Cruncher Ill: Michel Streich Melinda Long Jonny Duddle ISBN: 978-1742375724 Ill: David Shannon Ill: Jonny Duddle A delightful fable ISBN: 978-0152018481 ISBN: 978-0763648763 addresses the Jeremy Jacob is a young A hilarious picture book foolishness of war with boy who joins a pirate debut has a scurvy crew setting off for a light touch . A perfect captain and his crew in an island of gold, where an unexpected read-aloud for early this witty look at the finer development awaits under the final flap . discussions of bullying points of pirate life . and human rights .
Roger the Jolly Six Men Tough Boris Pirate David McKee Mem Fox Brett Helquist Ill: David McKee Ill: Kathryn Brown Ill: Brett Helquist ISBN: 978-0735840508 ISBN: 978-0613105354 ISBN: 978-0064438513 Unlike the illustrating Boris von der Borch is a Roger is too jolly to be style of his popular Elmer mean, greedy old pirate a pirate, so he is sent the patchwork elephant, David McKee – tough as nails, through away whenever there uses black-and-white cartoon illustrations and through, like all is any real pirating to to tell the tale of six men with the power pirates . Or is he? But when a young boy be done, until one day . . A rousing and to choose between war and peace . sneaks onto Boris’s ship, he discovers humorous tale told with great rhythm . that the pirates aren’t quite what he expected .
Victricia Malicia, Book-Loving Buccaneer Carrie Clickard There is more treasure in Ill: Mark Meyers ISBN: 978-1936261123 books than in all the pirates’ Victricia’s adventures on her family’s pirate loot on Treasure Island ship is a tale of self- determination, sticking to your dreams, and the joy of reading . Walt Disney
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DINOSAURS
Amazing Dinosaur Digging up How Do Dinosaurs Discovery Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Shaheen Bilgrami Aliki Jane Yolen Ill: Mike Phillips, Ill: Aliki Ill: Mark Teague Phil Garner, ISBN: 978-0881031010 ISBN: 978-0590316811 Treve Tamblin Find out how these This first story of a series ISBN: 978-0806985916 enormous dinosaurs get inside museums entertains while also By activating acetate panels with pull- for all of us to see! teaching good bedtime tabs to transform skeletons to full-color behavior . It combines creatures, this six-page book is packed children’s fascination with dinosaurs and with information learned from Tom’s Mark Teague’s irresistible, humorous scrapbook as well as his visit to the illustrations to provide a sure hit with both Dinosaur Museum with his dad . child and parent .
It’s very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs – dinosaurs are nature’s Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It’s not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat CARS. It’s that they are real
Robert T. Bakker
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WHEELS AND WINGS
The Adventures of Cool Cars Duck in the Truck Taxi Dog Tony Mitton Jez Alborough Debra and Sal Baracca Ill: Ant Parker Ill: Jez Alborough Ill: Mark Buehner ISBN: 978-0753458020 ISBN: 978-0007302628 ISBN: 978-0756919108 From luxury limousines The first book in the A taxi driver adopts a to speedy sports cars, bestselling series, this stray dog in New York City and takes it on this book features a deliciously percussive drives and adventures . wide variety of automobiles – all driven rhyming story of a feathered truck driver by kooky animal characters . A picture who becomes mired in muck and the dictionary identifying car parts builds three Good Samaritans (a frog, a sheep vocabulary and makes learning about cars and a goat) who try to help him . even more fun .
Everything I Know The Garage Locomotive About Cars Christophe Merlin Brian Floca Tom Lichtenheld Ill: Christophe Merlin Ill: Brian Floca Ill: Tom Lichtenheld ISBN: 978-1406333299 ISBN: 978-1416994152 ISBN: 978-0689843822 Mr Bear’s car has broken This Caldecott Medal This pseudo-nonfiction down, but luckily he’s a Winner, Sibert Honor book presents a mechanic! Help him to Book, and New York wealth of made-up fix it by lifting the flaps to Times bestseller is a stuff . It’s chock-full of check each part of the rich and detailed sensory exploration of fun fake facts about automobiles, such car . America’s early railroads . as “Red cars are the fastest kind” and horses invented cars (hence the term horsepower) .
Moonshot Brian Floca Ill: Brian Floca ISBN: 978-1416950462 books change lives. This stirring account retraces Apollo 11’s books give us wings historic mission in brief but precise detail, and also brilliantly captures the mighty scope american library association and drama of the achievement . Best suited for primary school-aged readers .
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WHEELS AND WINGS
Richard Scarry’s Road Builders Runaway Train (The Cars and Trucks B.G. Hennessy Little Red Train and Things That Go Ill: Simms Taback series) Richard Scarry ISBN: 978-0140542769 Benedict Blathwayt Ill: Richard Scarry This is the perfect book Ill: Benedict Blathwayt ISBN: 978-0307157850 for any child who can’t ISBN: 978-0099385714 Generations of children get enough of trucks or The first charming tale in The Little Red all over the world have construction . Train series which will appeal to all little grown up spending boys and girls obsessed with engines, hours pouring over this detailed journey of trains and things that go . the pig family heading to the beach for a picnic .
Steam, Smoke, and Steel: Back in Time with Trains There is no such thing as a Patrick O’Brien Ill: Patrick O’Brien child who hates to read; there ISBN: 978-0881069723 All aboard! This train travels through are only children who have not history making stops in time to learn about the progress of travel by rail . found the right book
Frank Serafini
Truckery Rhymes Jon Scieszka Ill: David Shannon, Loren Long, David Gordon ISBN: 978-1416941354 This collection of lively truck-themed Mother Goose rhymes is filled with humor, featuring characters from Jon Scieszka’s Trucktown series .
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YOUNG GOURMET
Bake Sale Betty Bunny Loves Bread and Jam for Sara Varon Chocolate Cake FrancEs Ill: Sara Varon Michael B. Kaplan Russell Hoban ISBN: 978-1596437401 Ill: Stephane Jorisch Ill: Lillian Hoban At once deeply ISBN: 978-0803734074 ISBN: 978-0808568537 metaphorical and The debut picture book Part of a series of hilariously literal, this of the Betty Bunny books about Frances is a story for anyone series . It’s a story about patience – the badger . In this story, who’s ever looked for seen through the eyes of Betty Bunny, a Frances decides she an easy answer to precocious but lovable preschooler . likes to eat only bread and jam at every life’s intractable difficulties . It’s also a meal . To her surprise, her parents grant cookbook, with seven delicious recipes . her wish .
Chocolate Mousse Cloudy with a The Giant Jam for Greedy Goose Chance of Sandwich Julia Donaldson Meatballs John Vernon Lord and Ill: Nick Sharratt Judi Barrett Janet Burroway ISBN: 978-1405021906 Ill: Ron Barrett Ill: John Vernon Lord Children’s favorite ISBN: 978-0689306471 ISBN: 978-0808590736 foods and animals are The tiny town of The people of Itching Down combat an combined in delicious rhyming phrases, Chewandswallow was very much like any invasion of wasps by trapping them in a making this story of funniest dinner party other tiny town except for its weather large strawberry jam sandwich, in this silly ever perfect to read aloud . which came three times a day, at tale with lyrical, rhyming text . breakfast, lunch and dinner .
The Little Mouse, Mouse Mess The Tortilla The Red Ripe Linnea Riley Factory Strawberry, and Ill: Linnea Riley Gary Paulsen The Big Hungry ISBN: 978-0590100489 Ill: Ruth Wright Paulsen Bear With rhythmic text and ISBN: 978-0613089302 Audrey Wood and Don exuberant collages, Using simple yet Wood this is a simple story of a mouse who evocative language, this story pays tribute Ill: Don Wood wakes for a midnight snack and winds to the Mexican farmers and workers who ISBN: 978-0859531825 up creating a chaotic mess in the family participate in a cycle of life and labor that A well-loved tale in which the Little Mouse kitchen . progresses from seed planting, to tortilla, will do all he can to save his strawberry and back to the farmer . from being eaten by the Big, Hungry Bear .
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FOR BUDDING ARTISTS
Camille and the Dog Loves Drawing The Dot Sunflowers Louise Yates Peter H. Reynolds Laurence Anholt Ill: Louise Yates Ill: Peter H. Reynolds Ill: Laurence Anholt ISBN: 978-0375870675 ISBN: 978-0763619619 ISBN: 978-0812064094 Yates’ bibliophile star “Just make a mark and Based on a true of Dog Loves Books is see where it takes you .” encounter, this tells the back, this time in an ode This sage advice, offered story of a small boy who to drawing when Dog by her intuitive art teacher, sets our befriends Vincent van receives a blank book young heroine Vashti on a journey of self- Gogh . This book is part of the Anholt’s from his Aunt Dora . expression, artistic experimentation, and Artists Books for Children . success .
Katie Meets the Red is Best The Shape Game Impressionists Kathy Stinson Anthony Browne James Mayhew Ill: Robin Baird Lewis Ill: Anthony Browne Ill: James Mayhew ISBN: 978-1554510528 ISBN: 978-0552546966 ISBN: 978-0439935081 A classic tale of one A fantastical look into Katie’s trip to the toddler’s obstinate color a family’s visit to an art museum to see Impressionist art leads preference has been museum . The piece de to a magical journey through the actual charming readers for 25 resistance is mother’s paintings . Katie embarks on other art years . game, played on the adventures in other books in the series . train ride home, in which one brother draws a shape and the other turns it into something .
When Pigasso Met Mootisse Nina Laden Ill: Nina Laden ISBN: 978-0811811217 The road to knowledge Verbal and visual puns fill this homage to Pablo begins with the turn of Picasso and Henri Matisse, who are lightly satirized but whose techniques are also mimicked, with Picasso’s hard, black the page outlines and Matisse’s brilliant side-by- side shades .
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I WANT TO DANCE
Belinda the Dogs Don’t Do Giraffes Can’t Ballerina Ballet Dance Amy Young Anna Kemp Giles Andreae Ill: Amy Young Ill: Sara Ogilvie Ill: Guy Parker-Rees ISBN: 978-0142402726 ISBN: 978-1416998396 ISBN: 978-0439287197 Belinda takes center Meet Biff, an adorable In the vein of Rudolph stage in this charming little puppy who will stop the Red-Nosed Reindeer, story in which the size at nothing to become a ballet dancer . The this rhyming, silly tale of her feet is rivaled only hilarious story of a small dog with a big shows insecure young readers that by the size of her heart . An amusing story personality and even bigger dreams! everyone can be wonderful, even those that will strike a chord with children who that march to the beat of a different love to move but who are not perfectly cricket . proportioned .
Josephine Wants to Dance Jackie French Ill: Bruce Whatley Let us read and let us dance – ISBN: 978-0810994317 Through the story of two amusements that will never Josephine the kangaroo, award-winning Australian author encourages all readers do any harm to the world to never give up and to always dance to their own music . Voltaire
Oliver Button Is a Sissy Tomie dePaola Ill: Tomie dePaola ISBN: 978-0152578527 A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap dance than participate in sports .
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FOR MAESTROS
The Jazz Fly The Maestro Plays Never Play Music Matthew Gollub Bill Martin Jr Right Next to the Ill: Karen Hanke Ill: Vladimir Radunsky Zoo ISBN: 978-1889910178 ISBN: 978-0805017465 John Lithgow A singular story Radunsky’s stylized, Ill: Leeza Hernandez celebrating language hand-colored, cut- ISBN: 978-1442467439 and the improvisational spirit of jazz . The paper art triumphantly A concert gets out of hand when the rhyming text includes scat refrains that illustrates Martin’s playful paean to animals at the neighboring zoo storm just beg to be read aloud . adverbs, and encourages children to see the stage and play the instruments how masterfully they can play with words . themselves in this hilarious picture book based on one of John Lithgow’s best- loved tunes .
Once Upon an Peter and the Wolf The Remarkable Ordinary School Sergei Prokofiev Farkle McBride Day Ill: Peter Malone John Lithgow Colin McNaughton ISBN: 978-0375824302 Ill: C.F. Payne Ill: Satoshi Kitamura Introduce children to ISBN: 978-0689833403 ISBN: 978-0374356347 classical music with In his first book, John When a new teacher Prokofiev’s musical fairy tale of the boy Lithgow introduces a arrives at school, an (played by all the strings of the orchestra) fickle yet lovable child ordinary day is turned who, with the help of a bird (played by prodigy who brings the topsy-turvy, and a boy is inspired in a way the flute), outsmarted the big, bad wolf sounds and rhythms of an orchestra to that will change him forever . The rollicking (played by the French horns) . visual life . The fold-out illustration showing words and pictures pay tribute to great the entire orchestra is for the music lover teachers and students everywhere . in all of us .
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin Lloyd Moss Music is the universal language Ill: Marjorie Priceman ISBN: 978-0671882396 Written in elegant and of mankind rhythmic verse and illustrated with playful and flowing artwork, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow this unique counting book is the perfect introduction to musical groups .
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FOR THOSE WHO MISS THE KARAOKE
He’s Got the Whole Knick-Knack Man Gave Names to World in His Hands Paddywhack All the Animals Kadir Nelson Paul O. Zelinsky Bob Dylan Ill: Kadir Nelson Ill: Paul O. Zelinsky Ill: Jim Arnosky ISBN: 978-0803728509 ISBN: 978-0525469087 ISBN: 978-1402768583 One of America’s best- Adapting the traditional Illustrator Jim Arnosky known songs, masterfully counting song, Zelinsky crafts a stunning picture created by award-winning artist gets maximum mileage book adaptation of Kadir Nelson into a dazzling, intimate out of the minimal nonsense text in this Bob Dylan’s song that’s a treat for both interpretation, one that rejoices in the award-winning book with brilliant moving- children and adults, with breathtaking connectedness of people and nature . parts . images of more than 170 animals plus a CD of Dylan’s original recording .
My Favourite On Top of Spaghetti Puff the Magic Things Paul Brett Johnson Dragon Richard Rodgers and (Lyrics by Tom Glazer) Peter Yarrow and Oscar Hammerstein II Ill: Paul Brett Johnson Lenny Lipton Ill: Renee Graef ISBN: 978-0439749442 Ill: Eric Puybaret ISBN: 978-0060287108 A humorous spin on ISBN: 978-1402747823 Based on the delightful American folk song “On Top of Old In richly-hued paintings song from The Sound of Smokey”, this well-known children’s song of the deepest sea blues and greens, Puff Music, this book presents magical images and folly-filled illustrations are a winning and his friend Jackie Paper frolic in the of cream-colored ponies, girls in white combination . land of Honalee . dresses with blue satin sashes, and silver white winters .
I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don’t think my bathtub can hold that many people
Jarod Kintz
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Angelo Beatrice’s Goat Because Amelia David Macaulay Page McBrier Smiled Ill: David Macaulay Ill: Lori Lohstoeter David Ezra Stein ISBN: 978-1842708422 ISBN: 978-0689824609 Ill: David Ezra Stein A poignant tale of a Thanks to Heifer ISBN: 978-0763641696 very curious friendship Project International – a Putting a unique spin between an old Italian charitable organization on “what goes around craftsman who restores that donates livestock to poor comes around,” this facades of Roman communities around the world – other charming story reminds us that adding buildings, and the pigeon he reluctantly families like Beatrice’s will also have a even a small dose of kindness into the nurses back to health while his own chance to change their lives . world is sure to spur more kindness, declines . which could eventually make its way back to you!
Extra Yarn Hooray for Hat! A House in the Mac Barnett Brian Won Woods Ill: Jon Klassen Ill: Brian Won Inga Moore ISBN: 978-0061953385 ISBN: 978-0544159037 Ill: Inga Moore A monochrome town Elephant wakes up ISBN: 978-1406324327 gets a change of color grumpy, but his spirits It’s nice to have your and attitude with the help of a box of yarn are instantly lifted when friends move in, but . . and a girl named Annabelle in this award- he receives a fabulous A sweet, droll tale of winning bestseller . multilayered hat . With its repeated cooperation and camaraderie, told in the chorus and upbeat rhythm, this fun signature style of Inga Moore’s pastoral story celebrates friendship, sharing, and artwork . fabulous hats .
Stone Soup Wilfrid Gordon Jon J. Muth McDonald Ill: Jon J. Muth Partridge ISBN: 978-0439339094 Mem Fox Today a reader, Award-winning artist Ill: Julie Vivas Jon J . Muth retells the ISBN: 978-0613511971 tomorrow a old folk tale of a selfish A winning story from community who is tricked into creating a Australia of a small leader delicious soup from stones . Set in China boy who lives near a nursing home in Muth’s hauntingly beautiful watercolors . and befriends its residents . He tries to discover the meaning of “memory” so he Margaret Fuller can restore that of an elderly friend .
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OUR HOME OUR WORLD
The Berenstain Island: A Story of A Life Like Mine How Bears’ Big Book of the GalÁpagos Children Live Science and Nature Jason Chin Around the World Stan and Jan Ill: Jason Chin DK Publishing and Berenstain ISBN: 978-1596437166 UNICEF Ill: Stan and Jan Thoroughly researched ISBN: 978-0756618032 Berenstain and filled with intricate Profiling children from ISBN: 978-0486498348 and beautiful paintings, all over the globe Discover fun facts this extraordinary book is leading their lives with fun-loving Berenstain Bears and an epic saga of the life of an island – born in different and fascinating ways, the their friend Professor Actual Factual . of fire, rising to greatness, its decline, challenges of nations both developed and This treasury of knowledge includes an and finally the emergence of life on new developing are revealed in the stories and almanac of the seasons and information islands . photographs in this special volume . about animals, plants, insects, and fish .
Me on the Map People Joan Sweeney Peter Spier Ill: Annette Cable Ill: Peter Spier ISBN: 978-0613099585 ISBN: 978-0385131810 A playful introduction to A wonderful introduction maps and geography, to a global view, with a girl explains maps, minutely detailed beginning with her bedroom and illustrations of people expanding to a map of the world . Part of on all four continents . the Me series by Joan Sweeney . Caldecott medalist Peter Spier reminds us that each of us is unique deserving of the respect and tolerance of others .
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire
W.B. Yeats Margaret Fuller
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CARING FOR OUR WORLD
And Then It’s THE CURIOUS Farewell to Shady Spring GARDEN Glade Julie Fogliano Peter Brown Bill Peet Ill: Erin E. Stead Ill: Peter Brown Ill: Bill Peet ISBN: 978-1596436244 ISBN: 978-0316015479 ISBN: 978-0812401561 This award-winning story While out exploring This is a gentle tale is illustrated by Caldecott one day, a little boy about a woodland Medal winner Erin E . named Liam discovers community who must Stead, and pays homage a struggling garden and find a new home because of encroaching to the hopefulness and anticipation that decides to take care of it . As time passes, urban development upon their land . accompanies planting the first seeds of the garden spreads throughout the dark, spring in the dark soil of winter – waiting, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green checking, waiting . world .
The Great Kapok Tree Lynne Cherry Ill: Lynne Cherry ISBN: 978-0152005207 A beautifully illustrated fable of interdependence in the rain forest, the author and artist Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book .
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world
John Muir
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CARING FOR OUR WORLD
In the Meadow Just a Dream The Lorax Yukiko Kato Chris Van Allsburg Dr. Seuss Ill: Komako Sakai Ill: Chris Van Allsburg Ill: Dr. Seuss ISBN: 978-1592701087 ISBN: 978-0395533086 ISBN: 978-0394823379 The first book in the Walter is a litterbug who “Unless someone like Being in the World does not appreciate you cares a whole awful series, a special the beauty of nature, lot, nothing is going to collection of gentle and or understand his role get better . It’s not .” Long peaceful nature books in keeping the planet before saving the earth from Japan . healthy . . until a fantastic journey shows became a global concern, Dr . Seuss’s him the tragic fate that could befall Earth Lorax warned against the danger posed if humans like him are not more careful . to the earth’s natural beauty .
Miss Rumphius Sandy’s Incredible Seasons Barbara Cooney Shrinking Anne Crausaz Ill: Barbara Cooney Footprint Ill: Anne Crausaz ISBN: 978-0670479580 Femida Handy and ISBN: 978-1610670067 This story of Great Aunt Carole Carpenter Translated from French, Alice Rumphius, who Ill: Adrianna Steele- the sparse text and crisp longed to travel the world, live in a house Card details on each page by the sea, and do something to make ISBN: 978-1897187692 explore each season by the world more beautiful, has a timeless By exploring the impact of a pile of referencing all five of our quality that resonates with each new garbage on a pristine seashore, this senses . generation . picture book engages readers in thinking about all the choices they make every day and their impact on the environment .
The Water Hole Where the Forest The Wolves Are Graeme Base Meets the Sea Back Ill: Graeme Base Jeannie Baker Jean Craighead George ISBN: 978-0810945685 Ill: Jeannie Baker Ill: Wendell Minor With his usual elaborate ISBN: 978-0688063634 ISBN: 978-0525479475 detail, Graeme Base A boy travels with his “The wolves are presents a one-of-a-kind father to a tropical rain back!” So begins this poignant and counting book . This is a forest . Walking among thought-provoking tale tracing the safari on paper – with an environmental the trees and vines, he interconnectedness of nature and the far- and mathematical education thrown in for imagines the forest as it might have been reaching effects that occur when the wolf good measure . in the past . population disrupts the ecosystem .
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STARTING SCHOOL / Moving house
Bad Bye, Good Bye I Hate School Ira Says Goodbye Deborah Underwood Jeanne Willis Bernard Waber Ill: Jonathan Bean Ill: Tony Ross Ill: Bernard Waber ISBN: 978-0547928524 ISBN: 978-1842704639 ISBN: 978-0395483152 The child-centric A laugh-out-loud The immensely likable transition from dreary account of the horrors young boy from Ira morning to cheerful evening will comfort of going to school, told Sleeps Over returns, young readers facing big changes of their from the point of view in a story that explores own, in this book that perfectly captures of a girl with a huge a common childhood the complex emotions of moving day . imagination . dilemma: the parting of best friends when one moves away .
Kindergarten The Kissing Hand Knuffle Bunny Too: Diary Audrey Penn A Case of Mistaken Antoinette Portis Ill: Ruth E. Harper and Identity Ill: Antoinette Portis Nancy M. Leak Mo Willems ISBN: 978-0061456916 ISBN: 9781933718002 Ill: Mo Willems Starting kindergarten can This heartwarming book ISBN: 978-1423102991 be a little scary . But Annalina shows us has become a children’s Master storyteller and illustrator Mo there are lots of new and exciting things to classic that has touched Willems presents the second book in look forward to — meeting your teacher, the lives of millions of his trilogy starring Trixie, her parents, playing on the monkey bars, feeding the children and their parents, especially at and her best stuffed-animal friend . pet tortoise, and making new friends . times of separation, whether starting Hilarious, expressive and colorful cartoon school, entering daycare, or going into illustrations set against black and white the hospital . photos will truly engage young readers .
Lilly’s Purple Moving House My Name is Yoon Plastic Purse Mark Siegel Helen Recorvits Kevin Henkes Ill: Mark Siegel Ill: Gabi Swiatkowska Ill: Kevin Henkes ISBN: 978-1596436350 ISBN: 978-0374351144 ISBN: 978-0688128975 A delightful and A spare and inspiring The irrepressible mouse compelling fantasy for story about a little girl heroine of Chester’s Way young readers, illustrated finding her place in a and Julius, the Baby in a unique style that new country . of the World returns combines elements for another true-to-life and very funny of traditional picture book, comic, and episode, this time with useful, timeless animation art . advice for apologizing to a friend and resolving a conflict .
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I THINK I CAN
Blueberry Girl Bravery Soup Courage Neil Gaiman Maryann Cocca-Leffler Bernard Waber Ill: Charles Vess Ill: Maryann Cocca- Ill: Bernard Waber ISBN: 978-0060838089 Leffler ISBN: 978-0618238552 A deeply personal wish ISBN: 978-0807508718 Bernard Waber explores for a new daughter is Carlin the raccoon the many varied kinds of turned into a book that is afraid of everything – even his own courage and celebrates celebrates the glory of growing up: a shadow . With the help of his friends the moments, big and small, that bring perfect gift for girls embarking on all the and Big Bear, the bravest animal in the out the hero in each of us . journeys of life, for their parents, and for forest, Carlin finds bravery in the most everyone who loves them . unexpected place .
Henrietta and the Katy and the Big Golden Eggs Snow Hanna Johansen Virginia Lee Burton Ill: Kathi Bhend Ill: Virginia Lee Burton ISBN: 978-1567922103 ISBN: 978-0395181553 Translated from German, This old-fashioned tale this is a delightful fable about Katy the little about a little chicken snowplow and her determination in the who dreams big, despite face of a small-town blizzard has all the the crowded and unhappy conditions on charm and moral grit of The Little Engine the factory farm’s chicken house . That Could .
Olympig The Snail and the Victoria Jamieson Whale Ill: Victoria Jamieson Julia Donaldson ISBN: 978-0803735361 Ill: Axel Scheffler Cool comic book styling ISBN: 978-0803729223 combines with classic From the creators of picture book heart in Room on the Broom and The Gruffalo this encouraging and comes this touching tale of adventure and hilarious story for every kid who’s ever friendship, presented in their signature been told “you can’t win ‘em all .” vibrant illustrations and rhymes .
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I AM DIFFERENT
Adventures at Chrysanthemum A Color of His Own Walnut Grove Kevin Henkes Leo Lionni Dana Lehman Ill: Kevin Henkes Ill: Leo Lionni Ill: Judy Lehman ISBN: 978-0688096991 ISBN: 978-0375810916 ISBN: 978-0979268601 This best-selling award- Leo Lionni, children’s Subtitled A Lesson about winning picture book is a book creator Teasing, this book introduces a cast of funny and honest school extraordinaire and winner of multiple animal characters to help demonstrate the story about teasing, self- Caldecott awards, introduces color importance of always treating others the esteem, and acceptance . concepts in this exquisite and touching way you would like to be treated . story of self-acceptance and friendship .
East Dragon, West The Empty Pot Guji Guji Dragon Demi Chih-Yuan Chen Robyn Eversole Ill: Demi Ill: Chih-Yuan Chen Ill: Scott Campbell ISBN: 978-0613004978 ISBN: 978-1929132676 ISBN: 978-0689858284 Demi’s exquisite art and This beautifully written This story of friendship beautifully simple text story about a crocodile across cultures is told through two show important lessons raised in a family of dragons that live on opposite sides of on the worth of individual ducks has much to the world and believe each other to be strength and honesty . say about appreciating a threat until an incident allows them to families and differences . discover that perhaps they are not so This charming spin on the ugly duckling different after all . theme is a must-have for any collection .
Leo the Late Bloomer Robert Kraus Ill: Jose Aruego ISBN: 978-0812453836 We read to know we are Delightful illustrations add a comic edge to not alone a sweetly reassuring tale about a tiger cub who eventually catches up to his more C.S. Lewis accomplished animal friends .
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I AM DIFFERENT
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild Russell the Sheep Something Else Peter Brown Rob Scotton Kathryn Cave Ill: Peter Brown Ill: Rob Scotton Ill: Chris Riddell ISBN: 978-0316200639 ISBN: 978-0060598488 ISBN: 978-0141338675 The adventures that Russell is one wide- A little creature is await prim and proper awake sheep who tries ostracized despite his Mr . Tiger when he everything to fall asleep . attempts to fit in, but decides to go wild . Award-winning Peter Young children will relate to Russell’s his experiences enable Brown uses some wordless spreads with predicament in this simple, satisfying story him to be accepting of subtle visual clues that gently build on the illustrated with wit . The first of a series others’ differences . An eloquently told character’s transformation . about Russell the Sheep . story about the meaning of tolerance .
The Story of Ferdinand To acquire the habit of reading Munro Leaf Ill: Robert Lawson is to construct for yourself ISBN: 978-0670013234 Translated into more than sixty languages, this a refuge from almost all the classic tale of a peaceable bull has been a favorite of readers across the world for miseries of life almost eighty years . W. Somerset Maugham
What I Like About Me! Allia Zobel-Nolan Ill: Miki Sakamoto ISBN: 978-0794419455 This fun-loving book proves to kids that, in a world where fitting in is the norm, being different is what makes us special .
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THE BIRDS AND THE BEES / DOLLARS AND SENSE
The Baby Tree Who Has What?: All Sophie Blackall About Girls’ Bodies Ill: Sophie Blackall and Boys’ Bodies ISBN: 978-0399257186 (Let’s Talk about Cleverly revealing the You and Me) basics of reproduction in Robie H. Harris an age-appropriate way, Ill: Nadine Bernard award-winning Sophie Westcott Blackall has created a ISBN: 978-0763629311 beautiful picture book full of playful details Humorous illustrations, conversations to amuse and engage readers . between the siblings, and a clear text all reassure young kids that whether they have a girl’s body or a boy’s, their bodies are perfectly normal, healthy, and wonderful .
Bunny Money A Chair for My If You Made a Rosemary Wells Mother Million Ill: Rosemary Wells Vera B. Williams David M. Schwartz ISBN: 978-0670886883 Ill: Vera B. Williams Ill: Steven Kellogg Take one resolute Ruby, ISBN: 978-0688009144 ISBN: 978-0780743311 add one sly Max, blend This Caldecott Honor In this funny follow-up to in a shopping trip to Book is narrated by a young girl, and How Much Is a Million?, buy Grandmother’s birthday present, and about how she, her mother, and her money is presented in a money mix-up is sure to happen . A grandmother save up all of their spare an accessible way that companion to Bunny Cakes, and a part of coins in a big glass jar toward the day corresponds to how the Max and Ruby series . when they will buy a much-needed easy children think . chair .
The more your read, the more you know; and the more you know, the smarter you grow
Jim Trelease
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WHEN THINGS ARE BAD
Alexander and the Fortunately The Huge Bag of Terrible, Horrible, Remy Charlip Worries No Good, Very Bad Ill: Remy Charlip Virginia Ironside Day ISBN: 978-1417611324 Ill: Frank Rodgers Judith Viorst Readers will cheer as ISBN: 978-0340903179 Ill: Ray Cruz Ned’s good fortune A compelling picture ISBN: 978-0689300721 follows bad through a book using lively, comic- People of all ages have terrible, horrible hilarious series of cliff- style pictures to show days, and Alexander offers us the cranky hanging escapades the general nature of the commiseration we crave as well as a that lead to a fortunate worries . The message of the book is clear reminder that things may not be all that ending . — find someone who will listen and talk bad . The first of the Alexander series . about your worries .
It Could Always Be It’s a Bad Day Mean Soup Worse Mary Ellen Friday Betsy Everitt Margot Zemach Ill: Glin Dibley Ill: Betsy Everitt Ill: Margot Zemach ISBN: 978-0873589048 ISBN: 978-0780742291 ISBN: 978-0812406023 Everyone can have a bad It has been a bad day for A Caldecott Honor Book, day once in a while . The Horace . A very bad day . this Yiddish folktale about appreciating reassuring conclusion He’s come home feeling what you have because “it could always for young readers that mean . But his mother be worse”, is retold with humor and lively tomorrow is another day knows just what to do! Young children illustrations . gives hope that all bad days eventually and adults alike will be heartened by this end . innovative method of relieving stress .
Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons Eric Litwin Ill: James Dean ISBN: 978-0062110589 Count down with Pete in this rocking new story from the creators of the bestselling Pete the Cat books .
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WHEN THINGS ARE BAD
Petit, the Monster Pumpkin Soup Rotten Island Isol Helen Cooper William Steig Ill: Isol Ill: Helen Cooper Ill: William Steig ISBN: 978-0888999474 ISBN: 978-1417737789 ISBN: 978-1906367053 This masterpiece about a This enchanting story Rotten Island is a small boy’s puzzled look explores the ups paradise for nasty at the ambiguities and and downs of close- creatures . Not since confusions confronting the behavior of knit camaraderie, and Maurice Sendak’s Where people, is created by an Argentinian and capture the dynamics of friendship . the Wild Things Are has Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Children will be able to recognize that true there been such a glorious nightmare of a Isol . friendship can weather most any storm . book .
Stuck with Blooz Supposing... When Sophie Gets Caron Levis Alastair Reid Angry – Really, Ill: Jon Caron Ill: Bob Gill Really Angry... ISBN: 978-0547745602 ISBN: 978-1590173695 Molly Bang With a read-aloud “Supposing I had a twin Ill: Molly Bang rhythm and whimsical brother but we never told ISBN: 978-0590189798 illustrations, this picture anyone and only went In this Caldecott-honor book helps children talk about emotions to school half the time book, kids will see – and is perfect for young fans of friendly each…” Word magician what Sophie does when she gets angry . monsters . Reid and Gill’s whimsical artwork create This story gives a realistic account of a monument to the liberating power of embattled siblings and prescribes self- unfettered thought . imposed solitude .
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope
Kofi Annan
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FAIRY TALES / FOLK TALES
Ali Baba and the The Bear Skinner: A The Bremen Town Forty Thieves (Flip Tale of the Musicians Up Fairy Tales) Brothers Grimm Brothers Grimm Claudia Venturini Laura Amy Schlitz Ill: Lisbeth Zwerger Ill: Claudia Venturini Ill: Max Grafe ISBN: 978-9881512611 ISBN: 978-1846432514 ISBN: 978-0763627300 This is the classic tale of Traditional tales are a An unforgettable retelling four beleaguered animals well-established part of all cultures . This of a classic Grimm tale, who decide to run off to be musicians in version is a wonderful retelling using this is a story about the struggle between the town of Bremen, reinterpreted through gentle language, captivating illustrations the two sides of our selves, and the beautiful illustrations by Hans Christian and fun lift-up flaps . heroic strength it takes to claim a victory . Andersen Medal winner Lisbeth Zwerger .
The Golden Sandal: Lon Po Po: A Red- Many Moons A Middle Eastern Riding Hood Story James Thurber Cinderella Story from China Ill: Louis Slobodkin Rebecca Hickox Ed Young ISBN: 978-0152518738 Ill: Will Hillenbrand Ill: Ed Young This charming Caldecott ISBN: 978-0823413317 ISBN: 978-0780763029 Medal-winning fable of A delightful retelling of This Caldecott Medal a sickly princess who Iraqi folktale The Little Red Fish and the winner retells a Chinese knows she will be well Clog of Gold has mean stepmother, young folktale similar to Red- if only she can have the moon in the sky . oppressed girl and all the makings of a Riding Hood, accompanied by vibrant Told with wit and laugh-aloud humor . good Cinderella story . watercolor illustrations .
Mufaro’s Beautiful Rapunzel The Sea King’s Daughters: An Paul O. Zelinsky Daughter: A Russian African Tale Ill: Paul O. Zelinsky Legend John Steptoe ISBN: 978-0613608329 Aaron Shepard Ill: John Steptoe A retelling of the German Ill: Gennady Spirin ISBN: 978-0688040451 folktale in which a ISBN: 978-0938497493 A Caldecott Honor beautiful girl with long One of the most popular picture book, this picture golden hair is kept legends of Russia, this book is perfect for introducing children imprisoned in a lonely story is found in medieval to the Cinderella fairytale as well as the tower by a sorceress . epic ballads, as well as in a popular opera history, culture, and geography of the by Rimsky-Korsakov . African nation of Zimbabwe .
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FAIRY TALES / FOLK TALES
The Talking Eggs Tasty Baby Belly The Tinderbox Robert D. San Souci Buttons Hans Christian Ill: Jerry Pinkney Judy Sierra Andersen, Stephen ISBN: 978-0803706194 Ill: Meilo So Mitchell A colorful Creole folktale ISBN: 978-0440417385 Ill: Bagram Ibatoulline that captures the unique Based on Japanese ISBN: 978-0763620783 flavor of the American folklore, this is a A classic tale of dark South, this Caldecott Honor Book is the wonderful short tale to adventure, spun with story of Blanche, who is kind to an old read aloud, and children wit and clarity in Stephen Mitchell’s witch and is duly rewarded . will gleefully join in the Onis’ chant and wonderfully fresh retelling . This is not a cheer at the triumph of small over large . tale for the faint of heart, but it’s a rich rendering of the durable, intriguing classic .
The Treasure Yeh-Shen: A Yummy: Eight Uri Shulevitz Cinderella Story favourite fairy Ill: Uri Shulevitz from China tales ISBN: 978-1435208193 Ai-Ling Louie Lucy Cousins About a poor man’s long Ill: Ed Young Ill: Lucy Cousins journey to find treasure, ISBN: 978-0812474206 ISBN: 978-0763644741 with a surprising and Misty, jewel-like A bold and funny heart-warming ending . illustrations evoke the collection of fairy tales, This Caldecott Honor Book masterfully mythic past in this vividly illustrated by the author of the captures the spirit of the original folk tale Chinese Cinderella story . Maisy series, retains all the emotion and while keeping it simple enough for the humor of the original fairy tales . young readers .
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales
Albert Einstein
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TWISTS ON THE FAMILIAR
The Goldilocks The Little Red Hen Sleeping Ugly Variations (Makes a Pizza) Jane Yolen Allan Ahlberg Philemon Sturges Ill: Diane Stanley Ill: Jessica Ahlberg Ill: Amy Walrod ISBN: 978-0808585442 ISBN: 978-0763662684 ISBN: 978-0756913007 A twist on the Sleeping Lift the flaps and pull The story of the Beauty fairy tale, this the tabs to join Goldilocks in a hilarious industrious Little Red story about lovely- series of adventures, as award-winning Hen is not a new one, but when this but-spoiled Princess storyteller Allan Ahlberg and his daughter, particular hen spies a can of tomato Miserella and sweet- Jessica, put their own stamp on the sauce in her cupboard and decides to but-ugly Plain Jane timeless tale . make a pizza, the familiar tale takes on a teaches children to see beyond outward fresh new twist . appearance .
The Three Pigs Who’s Afraid of the David Wiesner Big Bad Book? Ill: David Wiesner Lauren Child ISBN: 978-0618007011 Ill: Lauren Child This Caldecott Medal- ISBN: 978-1408307724 winning picture book When Herb falls asleep begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with his head on top of a but the wolf’s huffing and puffing blows dusty book of fairy tales, the pigs right out of the story . . and into he finds himself stuck inside the volume the realm of pure imagination . with no quick way out .
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him
Maya Angelou
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IMAGINATION / DRAMA
Brundibar The Milly-Molly- Naked Mole Rat Tony Kushner Mandy Storybook Gets Dressed Ill: Maurice Sendak Joyce Lankester Mo Willems ISBN: 978-0786809042 Brisley Ill: Mo Willems Based on a Czech opera Ill: Joyce Lankester ISBN: 978-1423114376 performed numerous Brisley Funnyman and three-time Caldecott times by the children of the Nazi ISBN: 978-1447273066 Honoree Mo Willems exposes the naked concentration camp Terezin, this nutty This collection of truth about being yourself and wearing it little story is retold by Tony Award-winning 21 stories, about well . playwright Tony Kushner and illustrated by this resourceful and Maurice Sendak . thoughtful little girl, has charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925 .
The Sign on Rosie’s door Maurice Sendak Ill: Maurice Sendak You may have tangible wealth ISBN: 978-0060287955 This is a story of real children, playing as only untold; Caskets of jewels and children know how – in the magical world of coffers of gold. Richer than I you dress-up and make- believe . can never be – I had a Mother who read to me
Strickland Gillilan When I Was Small Sara O’Leary Ill: Julie Morstad ISBN: 978-1897476383 Children will take great delight in this charming little book from a small series . The simple, 1950s-style illustrations add to the quirky story that a mother tells her child about when she was, literally, “small .”
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JUST PLAIN FUNNY
Art and Max The Book With No Can I Play Too? (An David Wiesner Pictures Elephant and Ill: David Wiesner BJ Novak Piggie Book) ISBN: 978-1849392662 ISBN: 978-0803741713 Mo Willems With eye-popping Cleverly irreverent and Ill: Mo Willems illustrations, readers are irresistibly silly, this ISBN: 978-1423119913 taken on a stunning journey through the innovative and wildly Like previous Elephant art world . This hilarious and inspiring tale funny read-aloud is one and Piggie books, this of two “artists” combines minimal text that kids will beg to hear laugh-aloud story is with remarkable images . again and again . (And parents will be perfect for emerging happy to oblige .) readers . There’s no better way to learn to read than this winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award .
Chicken Big The Dunderheads Keith Graves Paul Fleischman Ill: Keith Graves Ill: David Roberts ISBN: 978-0811872379 ISBN: 978-0606238045 With wacky, laugh-out- A tyrannical teacher loud humor and silliness gets her just due in a to spare, this huge twist delightfully subversive, on the classic Chicken outrageously funny tale Little story lends a whole described as “Oceans new perspective to what Eleven for school kids” . So many story it means to be chicken . and writing elements to explore in this plot-driven tale .
Mister Magnolia This Is Not My Hat Quentin Blake Jon Klassen Ill: Quentin Blake Ill: Jon Klassen ISBN: 978-1862308077 ISBN: 978-0763655990 Chosen as one of the A Caldecott Medal top 10 Kate Greenaway winner, this is another deadpan-funny tale Medal winners of all from the creator of the award-winning I time, this is a classic, Want My Hat Back . exuberant, rhyming picture book from the much-loved Quentin Blake .
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WORDLESS
A Ball for Daisy A Boy, a Dog, and a Deep in the Forest Chris Raschka Frog Brinton Turkle ISBN: 978-0375858611 Mercer Mayer ISBN: 978-0833507501 This Caldecott Medal ISBN: 978-0803728806 A clever twist on winner portrays the Through its pictures, it the Goldilocks tale . depth of emotion when tells the story of a boy This time, a baby a little dog loses her and a dog and the frog bear invades a cabin while its human favorite ball, without they try unsuccessfully inhabitants are away . using any text . to catch . The first in a series of six wordless books .
Flotsam The Grey Lady and Journey David Wiesner the Strawberry Aaron Becker ISBN: 978-0618194575 Snatcher ISBN: 978-0763660536 Breathtaking Caldecott- Molly Bang A lonely girl draws a winning story about a ISBN: 978-0027081404 magic door on her young beachcomber A wordless allegory bedroom wall and who finds an old camera and excitedly and visual feast full through it escapes into develops the film he finds inside . This of surprise and wonder, this lively tale another world . This recent Caldecott book’s vivid watercolor paintings have a skillfully blends fantasy, suspense, and Honor book is about self-determination crisp realism that anchors the elements of humor . and unexpected friendship . fantasy .
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WORDLESS
The Lion and the Noah’s Ark The Red Book Mouse Peter Spier Barbara Lehman Jerry Pinkney ISBN: 978-1417617661 ISBN: 978-0618428588 ISBN: 978-0316013567 This Caldecott winner This Caldecott Honor This Caldecott Medal tells the biblical rainy- book is about a book . A winner is a wordless day tale with practically magical red book without adaptation of one of Aesop’s most no text and his signature delicate, detail- any words . When you beloved fables, in which an unlikely pair packed illustrations . turn the pages you’ll experience a new learn that no act of kindness is ever kind of adventure through the power of wasted . story .
The Snowman Raymond Briggs ISBN: 978-0241141038 A modern-day children’s classic about a boy who builds a snowman in the garden and wakes up in the night to find that it has come to life . What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?
Wave Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures Suzy Lee in Wonderland” ISBN: 978-0811859240 Stunning in their simplicity, Lee’s illustrations, in just two shades of watercolor, create a vibrant story of a little girl’s day at the beach . Shadow is another one of Lee’s evocative wordless books .
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BOOKS AND WORDS
The Best Book in Big Words for Click, Clack, Moo: the World Little People Cows That Type Rilla Alexander Jamie Lee Curtis Doreen Cronin Ill: Rilla Alexander Ill: Laura Cornell Ill: Betsy Lewin ISBN: 978-1909263307 ISBN: 978-0061127595 ISBN: 978-1416903482 Creative visuals use This New York Times When Farmer Brown’s saturated colors and graphic shapes to bestseller helps little people communicate cows find an old cleverly show a reader making her way in a big person’s world, with grown-up typewriter and begin through the story, walking with her nose words like cooperate, respect, patience typing, plucky barnyard in her book, following wherever it leads . and considerate . denizens unite to improve their working conditions in this hilarious picture book .
Dear Deer Good Night Good How Rocket Gene Barretta Knight Learned to Read Ill: Gene Barretta Shelley Moore Thomas Tad Hills ISBN: 978-0805081046 Ill: Jennifer Plecas Ill: Tad Hills Children will be tickled ISBN: 978-0525463269 ISBN: 978-0375858994 by the homophones A magical bedtime tale The first book in a and the brightly colored, about three lonely little bestselling book series appealing illustrations, as “Aunt Ant” dragons . Whether used starring an irresistible moves to the zoo and describes what as a beginning reader dog named Rocket and his teacher, a she sees, including a “moose” who loved or as a read-aloud at bedtime, this sweet little yellow bird . Follow along as Rocket “mousse” and “ate” “eight” bowls . story will charm readers and listeners masters the alphabet, sounds out words, alike . and finally . . learns to read all on his own!
I Hate Picture I Scream! Ice Cream!: My Pet Book Books A book of wordles Bob Staake Timothy Young Amy Krouse Rosenthal Ill: Bob Staake Ill: Timothy Young Ill: Serge Bloch ISBN: 978-0385373128 ISBN: 978-0764343872 ISBN: 978-1452100043 Bob Staake’s exuberant Max hates his picture The rest of us may tale of a little boy and books and he’s throwing know them as homophones, but author the pet of his dreams . them all away . An Rosenthal calls them wordles . Either way, Books make the perfect outrageous book that they are “groups of words that sound pets, the boy decides, both pokes fun at and celebrates many of exactly the same but mean different and chooses a bright red one . Soon kids the classics of children’s literature . things .” everywhere will wish for a pet book of their very own .
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BOOKS AND WORDS
Nora the Mind Open This Little Petunia Reader Book Roger Duvoisin Orit Gidali Jesse Klausmeier Ill: Roger Duvoisin Ill: Aya Gordon-Noy Ill: Suzy Lee ISBN: 978-0394808659 ISBN: 978-1592701209 ISBN: 978-0811867832 A silly goose Petunia Translated from the Here’s a tale about finds a book – and, Hebrew to help teach friends and books and deciding that if she children about the the great qualities of owns a book she must nuances of human social interaction, both . Cleverly designed be wise, dispenses this story shows that the key to social as books nestled within smaller – and hilariously mistaken advice to the other interactions is understanding that what then larger – books, this bright offering is animals in the farmyard . people say aloud is not always what they rich with vivid colors . really think .
Why the Banana Split Rick Walton Ill: Jimmy Holder ISBN: 978-0879058531 A person who won’t read has Kids will love the silly stories, funny no advantage over one who illustrations, and witty wordplay in these can’t read adventures in idioms .
Maya Angelou
Wonderful Words: Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Compiler: Lee Bennett Hopkins Ill: Karen Barbour ISBN: 978-0689835889 Join acclaimed poet Lee Bennett Hopkins in this glorious collection celebrating words in speech, reading, language, and drama and how they influence our lives .
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LIBRARIES
Library Lion Library Mouse The Lonely Book Michelle Knudsen Daniel Kirk Kate Bernheimer Ill: Kevin Hawkes Ill: Daniel Kirk Ill: Chris Sheban ISBN: 978-0763622626 ISBN: 978-0810993464 ISBN: 978-0375862267 This story’s appealing The joy of reading, In today’s age of premise about a lion who writing, and sharing is electronic media, this is is permitted to remain brought to life in this a wonderful reminder of at the library because warmhearted tale . The how important a printed he hasn’t broken any debut book from a book can be and how rules, explores messages about rules and series . reading a story and looking at pictures exceptions . can enchant anyone who has ever cherished a book .
Quiet! There’s a The Shelf Elf Tomas and the Canary in the Jackie Mims Hopkins Library Lady Library Ill: Rebecca Pat Mora Don Freeman Thornburgh Ill: Raul Colon Ill: Don Freeman ISBN: 978-1932146271 ISBN: 978-0679804017 ISBN: 978-0670062300 Skoob, the Shelf Elf, Based on the true story A lively story about a girl who goes to the teaches children how to take care of of author and educator library and imagines all sorts of animals library books and proper library etiquette . Tomás Rivera, a child joining her . Sumptuous vocabulary and The fantasy and fun of the Shelf Elf makes of migrant workers who wording read like poetry . every library a magical place to be . went on to become a university chancellor, this inspirational tale shows what libraries – and education – can make possible .
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered
E. B. White
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writing letters
The Day the Dear Mr. Blueberry Herman’s Letter Crayons Quit Simon James Tom Percival Drew Daywalt Ill: Simon James Ill: Tom Percival Ill: Oliver Jeffers ISBN: 978-0785791362 ISBN: 978-1619634237 ISBN: 978-0399255373 An exchange of letters Filled with interactive Duncan’s crayons are on between Emily and her lift-the-flaps and great strike . One morning he teacher, Mr . Blueberry, read-aloud potential, this heartwarming opens his desk looking for them and, in offers an inspiring study of the relationship friendship story about best friends, a bear their place, finds a pack of letters detailing between children and their teachers, as and a raccoon, who stay pen pals when their grievances, one crayon at a time . A well as an unusual look at the life cycle, one moves far away . clever story and best-selling book . behavior, and habitat of whales .
The Jolly Postman LaRue Across Love, Mouserella Janet and Allan America: Postcards David Ezra Stein Ahlberg from the Vacation Ill: David Ezra Stein Ill: Janet and Allan Mark Teague ISBN: 978-0399254109 Ahlberg Ill: Mark Teague A young mouse in the ISBN: 978-0316126441 ISBN: 978-0439915021 city writes a collection of An ingenious format from Kate Greenaway Part of a series of books letters to her Grandmouse in the country . medalists, The Jolly Postman goes from about veteran letter- Mouserella will gain the affection of home to home in a fairy-tale kingdom, writer Ike, a feisty but children, and possibly encourage them to delivering letter, and every other page is disgruntled dog . This story details Ike’s start a journal or write letters of their own . an actual envelope, with a letter tucked cross-country adventures, and each of the inside . postcards is a priceless piece of hilarious self-delusion .
Sincerely, Katie: Writing a Letter This time, Fusako was able to express with Katie Woo Fran Manushkin hersElf with fluency and candor. The Ill: Tammie Lyon ISBN: 978-1404881266 bold letters she had been writing In this energetic series, a young girl learns about week after week had granted her an many different kinds of writing . Her friends and family make unexpected new freedom appearances as she keeps a journal, writes poems, pens letters, and more . Yukio Mishima, “The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea”
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POETRY
The 20th Century Alligator Pie Children’s Poetry Dennis Lee Treasury Ill: Frank Newfeld Compiled by Jack ISBN: 978-0062313461 Prelutsky One of the first illustrated Ill: Meilo So books published about ISBN: 978-0679893141 Canadian children and Poetry: the Here in one gloriously featuring Canadian place illustrated volume are 211 wonderful names, this timeless best words in poems that represent the best that the poetry collection established Dennis Lee’s last century had to offer . reputation as “Canada’s Father Goose” . the best order
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Best of Michael The Bill Martin Jr Rosen Big Book of Poetry Michael Rosen Compiled by Bill Ill: Quentin Blake Martin Jr. and Michael ISBN: 978-1571430465 Sampson A collection of humorous Ill: Various poems about family ISBN: 978-1416939719 and a variety of daily Years in the making, experiences . this full-color treasury contains nearly two hundred poems, all of them handpicked by Bill Martin Jr . Traditional children’s poems are presented alongside contemporary pieces .
By Sun and A Family of Poems Candlelight Compiled by Caroline Compiled by Shirley Kennedy Hughes Ill: Jon J. Muth Ill: Shirley Hughes ISBN: 978-0786851119 ISBN: 978-0340989647 Caroline Kennedy has This stunning gift chosen a rich variety of collection that celebrates Kennedy family favorite the riches of a lifetime with poems and poems to include in writings to mark each of the major this priceless collection, and has written milestones – childhood, young adulthood, thoughtful personal introductions about falling in love, family life, growing older what the poems mean to her . and death .
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POETRY
The Golden Books Nutshell Library Old Possum’s Book Family Treasury of Maurice Sendak of Practical Cats Poetry Ill: Maurice Sendak T. S. Eliot Louis Untermeyer ISBN: 978-0060255008 Ill: Axel Scheffler Ill: Joan Walsh Anglund This 4-volume boxed ISBN: 978-0547248271 ISBN: 978-0307168511 set of mini-sized books Eliot’s playful cat poems An illustrated collection contains Alligators All have delighted readers of over 350 English and Around (an alphabet and cat lovers around American poems, about book), Chicken Soup the world since they animals, people, famous events, the with Rice (the months of were first published in 1939 . They were seasons, and Christmas, and including the year), One Was Johnny (a counting originally composed for his godchildren nonsense verse, inspirational lines, and book), and Pierre . and later inspired the Broadway musical wisdom in rhyme . Cats .
The Orchard Book Taking Turns: Zany Zoo of Nursery Rhymes Poetry to Share William Wise Compiled by Zena Bernice Wolman Ill: Lynn Munsinger Sutherland Ill: Catherine Stock ISBN: 978-0618956869 Ill: Faith Jaques ISBN: 978-0689316777 The rollicking, rhyming ISBN: 978-1852130565 Pairs of poems – one poems in this collection This bestselling collection simpler, one more mature feature a wild variety of classic nursery rhymes – provide opportunities of different animals as well as ABCs, lullabies, finger games, for parent and child to and highlight each creature’s distinct counting rhymes, cumulative tables and read aloud together on such themes as personality . nonsense verse . Illustrated in glorious rain, horses, the wind, loneliness, and color by Faith Jaques . books themselves .
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children
Carl Sagan
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BIOGRAPHY / NON-FICTION
The Boy Who Loved Hot Air: The On a Beam of Light: Math: The (Mostly) True Story A Story of Albert Improbable Life of of the First Hot-Air Einstein Paul ErdÖs Balloon Ride Jennifer Berne Deborah Heiligman Marjorie Priceman Ill: Vladimir Radunsky Ill: LeUyen Pham Ill: Marjorie Priceman ISBN: 978-0811872355 ISBN: 978-1596433076 ISBN: 978-0689826429 Travel with Einstein on With a simple, lyrical Inventive illustrations a journey full of curiosity, laughter, and text and richly layered depict the true story of scientific discovery . Parents and children illustrations, this is a beautiful introduction the duck, sheep, and alike will appreciate this moving story of to the world of math and a fascinating rooster that were “ballooning’s first brave the powerful difference imagination can look at the unique character traits that passengers” when the Montgolfiers tested make in any life . made “Uncle Paul” a great man . their hot-air balloon in 1783 .
The Pilot and the Sir Cumference and The Warlord’s Little Prince: The the First Round Puzzle Life of Antoine de Table (A Math Virginia Pilegard Saint-Exupéry Adventure) Ill: Nicolas Debon Peter Sis Cindy Neuschwander ISBN: 978-1565544956 Ill: Peter Sis Ill: Wayne Geehan This tale of the origin of ISBN: 978-1782690597 ISBN: 978-1570911606 the Chinese tangram (a The beautifully illustrated Geometry is explained parallelogram, a square, life story of aviator, with humor, making it fun and accessible and five triangles), in adventurer, pioneer, war hero, and for beginners . The first of other books in which a young peasant boy convinces his celebrated author of The Little Prince, this series featuring Sir Cumference, his poor but wise father to enter a contest to one of the world’s most beloved children’s wife, Lady Di of Ameter, and their son solve the warlord’s puzzle . books . Radius .
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became Reading is important, because the World’s Fastest Woman Kathleen Krull if you can read, you can learn Ill: David Diaz ISBN: 978-0613376877 anything about everything and The incredible true story of Wilma Rudolph, the prematurely born black child everything about anything who, despite suffering from polio, became the first woman to win three Olympic gold medals . Tomie dePaola
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FOR PARENTS
1001 Children’s Children’s Book-a- I Spy a Great Reader Books You Must Day Almanac Jackie French Read Before You Anita Silvey ISBN: 978-0732299521 Grow Up ISBN: 978-1596437081 Drawing on her own Julia Eccleshare Part fun- and experience with dyslexia, ISBN: 978-0789318763 information-filled Australian Children’s The latest work in the almanac, part good book Laureate Jackie French bestselling 1001 series guide, this reference has written this book offers an authoritative book by children’s to help parents identify guide to classic and contemporary literature expert and former editor of The the possible reading children’s literature, including important Horn Book is a new way to discover a difficulties their children books from around the world . great children’s book – every day of the may have . year!
The Read Aloud Reading Magic: Why Reading Together: Handbook Reading Aloud to Everything You Jim Trelease Our Children Will Need to Know to ISBN: 978-0143121602 Change Their Lives Raise a Child Who The classic million-copy Forever Loves to Read bestselling handbook on Mem Fox Diane W. Frankenstein reading aloud to children ISBN: 978-0151006243 ISBN: 978-0399535246 – revised and updated Best-selling children’s With more than this seventh edition author and internationally 100 great book (including the good and respected literacy expert recommendations for kids from bad news on digital Mem Fox reveals the incredible emotional kindergarten through grade six, as well as learning) . and intellectual impact reading aloud to related conversation starters, this dynamic children has on their ability to learn to guide offers a winning equation to turn read . children into lifelong readers .
What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child When I say to a parent, “read to and All the Best Times to Read Them a child”, I don’t want it to sound Pam Allyn ISBN: 978-1583333341 like medicine. I want it to sound Pam Allyn, director of the literacy organization LitLife, reminds parents like chocolate that through reading aloud they can teach the beauty of language and joys of rhythm and rhyme and introduce their offspring to Mem Fox the Big Wide World .
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AGES 8-11, Timeless
Abel’s Island The Adventures of Charlie and The William Steig Pippi Longstocking Chocolate Factory Ill: William Steig Astrid Lindgren Roald Dahl ISBN: 978-0374300104 Ill: Michael Chesworth Ill: Quentin Blake The original survival ISBN: 978-0670876129 ISBN: 978-0141332123 skills story of a rather Since Pippi Longstocking In this stunning 50th inept aristocratic mouse was first published in Anniversary Edition of that gets stranded on 1950, the escapades of Dahl’s most popular an island, but eventually the quirky and creative Pippi, the girl with story, the nasty are learns to take care of upside-down braids and no parents to tell punished and the good are deliciously himself and slowly realizes the beauty and her what to do, give children license to dream rewarded as they tour a dreamlike candy value in doing so . When he finally designs of a world without rules and boundaries . This factory . Justice prevails in this vivid and his escape, he is a much more capable newly illustrated collection of Pippi stories imaginative tale where the punishments and resilient mouse . reinvigorates the enduring classic . so perfectly fit the crimes committed .
Charlotte’s Web The Cricket in Five Children and It E. B. White Times Square Edith Nesbit Ill: Garth Williams George Selden ISBN: 978-0143124665 ISBN: 978-0060882617 Ill: Garth Williams Continuously in print for Charlotte’s Web has ISBN: 978-0738312200 more than 100 years, endured for more Careful illustrations, this cautionary tale will than fifty years as the lyrical prose and an appeal to the reader engaging plot fuse in this standard by which all much beloved tale of a who dreams of a way young adult fiction is still cricket, who, with his to make wishes come measured . Sensitively dealing with difficult hodge-podge assortment true . The five children subjects such as death, loyalty and true of friends use creativity and hard work are each granted a daily wish that will last friendship, this read-aloud addition of the to save the nearly bankrupt newsstand until sunset; a prospect that sounds great beloved classic is a right of passage . in Times Square . Whimsical, comedic on the surface, but ultimately has some with a sometimes-gritty look at city life, friendship, courage and determination unanticipated consequences . triumph in this Newbery Honor Book . Homer Price The Lion, the The Magic Faraway Robert McCloskey Witch, and the Tree ISBN: 978-0670377299 Wardrobe Enid Blyton Robert McCloskey’s C.S. Lewis Ill: Mark Beech classic Homer Price is a Ill: Pauline Baynes ISBN: 978-1405273503 collection of captivating ISBN: 978-0060845247 Delightful whimsy is the and humorous Rarely do images and perfect way to describe adventures of an narrative so seamlessly this fanciful tale of talking irrepressible American unite in near literary perfection as they do saucepans and spoons boy . The detailed in C .S . Lewis’s extraordinary 1950 classic that travel up a magical tree to find an illustrations bring the stories to life and in which four siblings must overcome their ever-changing world existing in the clouds so effectively capture small-town America own personal failings to work together above . For dreamers who live deliciously in the 1950s, eliciting equal measure of to save their own lives and that of those in their rich imagination, this lovely book gleeful nostalgia and childlike mischief . around them . will feel to you, just like coming home .
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AGES 8-11, Timeless
Mr. Popper’s Mrs. Frisby and the A Necklace of Penguins Rats of Nimh Raindrops Richard and Florence Robert C. O’Brien Joan Aiken Atwater Ill: Robert C. O’Brien Ill: Jan Pienkowski Ill: Robert Lawson ISBN: 978-0689206511 ISBN: 978-0224083805 ISBN: 978-1435204935 In this unusual, but beloved Beginning and ending For the daydreamer, the Newbery prize winning with a birthday, this explorer at heart and story, sophisticated topics captivating collection of the incurably curious, like compassion, decision eight stories conjures Mr . Popper’s Penguins making, and xenophobia up a world filled with is a window into a delightfully zany world are artfully addressed in a simple tale of magic, where wishes can come true . In where ordinary life takes an extraordinary the depth of maternal love shown by an a world where imagination is often less twist when a family of penguins takes anthropomorphic mouse that must overcome valued than pragmatism, this book fully up residence at the Popper’s suburban her fears and accept assistance from her celebrates the fanciful reach of a brilliantly home . natural enemies in order to save her children . creative mind .
Nicholas The Secret Garden Stone Fox Rene Goscinny Frances Hodgson John Reynolds Ill: Jean-Jacques Burnett Gardiner Sempe Ill: Inga Moore Ill: Marcia Sewall ISBN: 978-0714845296 ISBN: 978-0763631611 ISBN: 978-0690039832 Written by the author of First published in 1911, The 25th anniversary Asterix, Rene Goscinny, The Secret Garden has edition of this beloved and with illustrations by entranced readers with story of compassion, New Yorker illustrator, the courage and strength of two unhappy competition and Jean-Jacques Sempe, and withering children who become ingenuity in the face of adversity is told the five Nicholas books tell of the determined to make their lives and the through the eyes of a young boy who endearing exploits of Nicholas, a young lives of others around them more joyful . shows his eternal love for his grandfather French school boy and his chums . and the length he is willing to go to save him .
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky William James
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AGES 8-11, Contemporary
Chitty Chitty Bang The Devil and his Frindle Bang Flies Again Boy Andrew Clements Frank Cottrell Boyce Anthony Horowitz Ill: Brian Selznick Ill: Joe Berger ISBN: 978-1417765393 ISBN: 978-0689806698 ISBN: 978-0763659578 An epic tale of The power to change This clever, mad-capped international intrigue, the world starts with an adventure picks up magic and secrets set in idea . When a clever boy where the classic left Elizabethan England, this suggests that a “pen” be off and takes us hurtling suspenseful story will called a “frindle” from here across the world in an appeal to all who love on out, his idea takes hold action-packed bad guy versus good historical fiction and royal mystery . first in his classroom, but eventually around guy race to see who ultimately will claim the world . Realistic and fanciful at the same ownership of the remarkable Chitty! time, Frindle explores the power of words and suggests that children with ideas can change in the world .
Gold Threaded Haroun and the Sea Hoot Dress of Stories Carl Hiassen Carolyn Marsden Salman Rushdie ISBN: 978-0375821813 ISBN: 978-0756965747 Ill: Salman Rushdie An idealist’s dream story, Third culture kids will ISBN: 978-0140157376 Hoot weaves a morality gravitate toward this Haroun sets out on an tale covering difficult enchanting story of a adventure to restore the subjects like poverty, the young Thai girl growing poisoned source of the environment, endangered up in the United States, sea of stories . On the animals and bullying as struggling to assimilate while at the same way, he encounters many two angry boys and a time discovering her own unique sense of foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its girl come together in an unlikely friendship self . storytelling powers . to accomplish something bigger than any one of them could have alone . Newbery honor .
Reading is the sole means by which we slip involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul
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AGES 8-11, Contemporary
How to Eat Fried The Iron Giant Journey to the Worms Ted Hughes River Sea Thomas Rockwell Ill: Laura Carlin Eva Ibbotson ISBN: 978-0812417357 ISBN: 978-0375871498 Ill: Kevin Hawkes An unpalatable culinary The late Ted Hughes ISBN: 978-0525467397 challenge turns into a wrote this modern fairy Multi-generational delightful gastronomic tale of looking beyond friendship, dislocation from adventure for one the exterior to see the one’s own culture and intrepid boy who refuses beauty within in 1968 . acceptance and wonder at to give up . Perseverance, This illustrated edition, featuring the that of another combined courage, determination, humor and complete text, special effects such as with beautifully lyrical prose and white-knuckle enough gross out factor to appeal to foldouts and die-cuts, and striking full- adventure are only the first few reasons to children . color artwork on every page, offers the read this exceptional novel by Eva Ibbotson perfect family read-aloud . set in turn-of-the-last-century Brazil .
The Lemming Molly Moon’s Number the Stars Condition Incredible Book of Lois Lowry Alan Arkin Hypnotism ISBN: 978-0395510605 Ill: Joan Sandin Georgia Byng Through the eyes of ISBN: 978-0062500489 ISBN: 978-0060514068 a ten-year-old girl, we A story of awakening, For the child who dreams of watch as the Danish where following the having magical powers, the Resistance smuggles crowd is the way of life first in a series of inventive almost the entire Jewish until one little lemming adventures finds orphan population of Denmark realizes he had the Molly Moon bullied and across the sea to power to make his own choices . This misunderstood, but things start to look up when Molly Sweden . In this 1990 Newbery winning simple, but provocative exploration of discovers her ability to hypnotize people and make story, we witness the heroism of an entire the concepts of free will and personal them do things . Readers will cheer for Molly and want nation and, with it, a wonderful example responsibility is surprisingly deep and to protect her from the big, bad world she seeks . of human decency in the face of war . thoughtful .
The Ordinary The Penderwicks Pinocchio Princess Jeanne Birdsall Michael Morpurgo M.M. Kaye ISBN: 978-1417772759 Ill: Emma Chichester Ill: M.M. Kaye Personality is the name Clark ISBN: 978-0613835442 of the game in this ISBN: 978-0007339693 At her christening, a exciting adventure tale of From this generation’s princess is given the a family of four spirited much beloved author, gift of “ordinariness” and very different sisters Michael Morpurgo and by a fairy, and the and their adoring father illustrated by acclaimed consequences of that who spend a delightfully Emma Chichester Clark, this reimagining eventually take her to a nearby palace energetic summer in an unexpectedly of the classic Pinocchio story is irreverent, where, as the fourteenth assistant kitchen enchanting location in the company of an funny and entirely surprising . A classic story maid, she meets just the prince for her . equally beguiling new friend . with a modern update shows children and adults alike that a good story is timeless .
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AGES 8-11, Contemporary
Poppy (Tales of Sadako and the The Tale of Dimwood Forest #1) Thousand Paper Despereaux Avi Cranes Kate DiCamillo Ill: Brian Floca Eleanor Coerr Ill: Thomas Basic Ering ISBN: 978-1439518991 ISBN: 978-0399237997 ISBN: 978-0763629281 Another in a rich field When a story of Nothing is all good or all of mice protagonists, such extraordinary bad in this inventive tale Poppy is an adventure hopefulness and peace about a tiny mouse with tale that addresses emerges from the bitter big ears and even bigger classic topics like circumstances of war, imagination . Tenacious, brave, whimsical, bravery, courage, friendship, keeping disease, and ultimately the death of a compassionate and a wide-eyed dreamer, promises, and doing the right thing . child, you know you’re in the hands of Desperaux will lead you and your child on a truly gifted storyteller . Based on a true an emotional quest from the castle to the story, this will touch your heart and is a dungeon and home again . great conversation starter with children .
Tales of a Fourth Where The Grade Nothing Mountain Meets Judy Blume the Moon ISBN: 978-0525469315 Grace Lin A pioneer in young adult Ill: Grace Lin fiction in the 1970s, Judy ISBN: 978-0316114271 Blume’s books give voice Written and Illustrated by to the deepest concerns Grace Lin, the richness of adolescence . Told of this contemporary from the point of view of folk tale draws on Lin’s own Chinese the exasperated older brother of a spirited heritage in its foundation, but overlays her sibling, the obvious rivalry and more distinctly American sensibility, intertwining subtle feelings of loss and jealousy are the two cultures in a timeless adventure interwoven in this sensitive and humorous tale that spans the globe in its universal book . message of gratitude and happiness . Newbery honor .
He who loves reading has everything within his reach William Godwin
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AGES 11+, Timeless
Anne of Green Bridge to From the Mixed up Gables Terabithia Files of Mrs. Basil E L.M. Montgomery Katherine Paterson Frankweiler ISBN: 978-0147514004 Ill: Donna Diamond E.L. Konigsburg Earnest, true to herself, ISBN: 978-0690013597 ISBN: 978-0689205866 spunky and beguiling, Hard subjects, like You’ve never seen better orphaned Anne of Green illness and death, can be logistical planning better Gables will work her made easier to discuss than that of Claudia who way into your heart, just when supported by a sets her mind on running like she did with the Cuthberts when she beautifully written story away with her younger arrived and realized that she wasn’t who of friendship, love and support between brother to the Metropolitan Museum of Art they expected . children who demonstrate wisdom beyond in New York City . Meticulously planned their young years . and hilariously executed, your future CEO will delight in the details of this classic story .
The Hobbit Homesick: My Own Island of the Blue J.R.R. Tolkien Story Dolphins Ill: Jemima Catlin Jean Fritz Scott O’Dell ISBN: 978-0544174221 Ill: Margot Tomes ISBN: 978-0606107242 Endlessly imaginative ISBN: 978-1435286214 Courage, determination and skillfully crafted, A fictionalized and resilience describe the 1937 classic has autobiography, Fritz the heroine of this endured as the gateway shares her own story survivalist tale of a girl to the Lord of the Rings of growing up “on who survives for eighteen phenomenon, and is still the standard by the wrong side of the months alone on a which all fantasy books are measured . world” as an American desert island, relying on her own ingenuity in China in the midst of and strength not only to live, but also to the political unrest of the live well . 1920s .
King Matt the First My Side of the Janusz Korczak Mountain ISBN: 978-0099488866 Jean Craighead George Written by one of ISBN: 978-0525463467 the most beloved In this brave tale of survival writers in Poland, this and self-determination, sophisticated story, takes a young boy relates his a look at governance adventures during the year through the eyes of a he spends living alone in child and suggests that the Catskill Mountains as he the answer for creating a better world struggles to survive, dependent on the natural may just be found in the imagination of world around him . His triumphs are empowering children . and informative for adolescent readers of this meticulously crafted tale of adventure .
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AGES 11+, Timeless
Phantom Redwall Roll of Thunder, Tollbooth Brian Jacques Hear My Cry Norton Juster ISBN: 978-0399247941 Mildred D Taylor Ill: Jules Feiffer The brutality and ISBN: 978-0803726475 ISBN: 978-0375869037 violence of battle Told through the eyes of Words dance across the coupled with the the daughter and set in page in this book that importance of alliance, Mississippi at the height is as witty and clever friendship and of the Depression, it is for adults as it is full of collaboration join forces the story of one family’s fantasy and adventure in this anthropomorphic struggle to maintain their for children, and a poignant reminder tale pitting animal species against one pride and independence in the face of for all to engage in life with curiosity and another in a battle for control of the racism and social injustice . whimsy . Redwall abbey .
The Wolves of A Wrinkle in Time Willoughby Chase Madeleine L’Engle Joan Aiken Ill: Madeleine L’Engle ISBN: 978-0857550316 ISBN: 978-0374386160 This historical fantasy, Science fiction, first published in 1962 adventure and fantasy and now reissued in its combine in this 1963 original format, takes Newbery winner that place in 1832 – in a expertly weaves space, period of English history time travel and physics in an epic story that never happened . Creative and of espionage, mystery and the forces of original . evil . If you enjoyed this, you must read Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me, which pays homage to this book .
I hate that sad moment when you return to ordinary life after reading an awesome book
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AGES 11+, Contemporary
Each Little Bird Esperanza Rising Four Tales that Sings Pan Munoz Ryan Philip Pullman Deborah Wiles ISBN: 978-0439120418 ISBN: 978-0385619196 ISBN: 978-1417754328 This is a “riches to Four Tales brings Never has a book about rags” awakening story together Clockwork, grief been so hopeful, set in Mexico and later The Firework-Maker’s funny, vivid, uplifting and California during the Daughter, I was a Rat!, imaginative . Set in the Great Depression . In and The Scarecrow American south, this losing her wealth and and His Servant . Four coming-of-age tale of protection, Esperanza stories and a new prologue and epilogue a young girl whose family runs a funeral finds her determination and purpose . from the uniquely talented Philip Pullman . parlor will touch your heart . Drawing on the rich tradition of fairytales, the collection will amuse, engage, and delight readers .
The Giver The Graveyard Hitler’s Daughter Lois Lowry Book Jackie French ISBN: 978-0547995663 Neil Gaiman ISBN: 978-0060086527 The Giver, the 1994 Ill: Dave McKean An ethical challenge is Newbery Medal winner, ISBN: 978-0060530921 presented in this simple has become one of the A #1 New York Times story about World War most influential novels of bestseller and winner II where a children’s our time . In a colorless, of many international storytelling game world of conformity and awards, this ingenious and sparks an intense self- contentment, a twelve captivating reimagining reflection and analysis, year old boy begins to understand the of Rudyard Kipling’s classic adventure The encouraging children to ask deep dark, complex secrets behind his fragile Jungle Book, Neil Gaiman shares a glorious questions about the nature of humanity . community . meditation on love, loss, survival, and sacrifice . . and what it means to truly be alive .
I, Coriander Sally Gardner ISBN: 978-1842552902 In this sophisticated and most unique fairytale set in Cromwell-era England, history and suspense propel the story, while musings on self- awareness and dignity enliven it . Coriander is a bright light in a dark world around her .
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Just Henry The King in the On my Honor Michelle Magorian Window Marion Dane Bauer ISBN: 978-1405276955 Adam Gopnik ISBN: 978-0547722405 Set in the 1950s, post ISBN: 978-0786818624 A heart-wrenching story war loss, poverty and Set in and under Paris, of peer pressure, lying human struggle are the fantastical parallel and the devastating explored through the reality that explodes consequences of both, eyes of Henry whose life from the mind of a bored that stays in the heart is forever changed by the American boy unhappily much longer than it cinema, both watching living in Paris is not takes to read the short films and behind the camera . only a wild adventure, but a wonderful paperback . commentary on the boundless potential of the imagination when put to work .
Silver Donkey The Snow Goose Walk Two Moons Sonya Hartnett Paul Gallico Sharon Creech Ill: Don Powers Ill: Angela Barrett ISBN: 978-0613819718 ISBN: 978-0763672119 ISBN: 978-0091893828 A story within a story Readers of this inspiring World War II, unrequited – one funny and one tale of kindness, loyalty, love, a hunchbacked bittersweet – intertwine and courage may ponder painter and a wounded to demonstrate the questions of heroism and snow goose seem an complexities of human the brutality of warfare unlikely combination until emotion, particularly as they contemplate the expertly united by Gallico in this brief, but between mothers and four rich, stories told in this “story in a lyrical, noble tale . their daughters . story” poetic book .
Wonder RJ Palacio ISBN: 978-0375869020 The most popular children’s book these days is a beautiful I have always imagined that story of a community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and paradise will be a kind of acceptance centered on the appearance of one unique boy . To library explore Julian the bully’s perspective, read The Julian Chapter . Jorge Luis Borges
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Short Story Collections
Just So Stories A Little, Aloud, for Stephen Fry Rudyard Kipling Children Presents Oscar Ill: Robert Ingpen Complied by Angela Wilde’s Stories for ISBN: 978-1848772281 Macmillan All Ages This sumptuous new ISBN: 978-0857560421 Oscar Wilde edition, rife with glorious This unique paperback Ill: Nicole Stewart illustrations, brings offers a selection of ISBN: 978-0007342457 together the iconic series prose and poetry Readers will recognize of incredible tales from especially suitable many of Oscar Wilde’s master storyteller Rudyard Kipling . for reading aloud to greatest stories, but this children . It includes modern day favourites edition includes extraordinary illustrations (David Almond, Neil Gaiman), old classics by Nicole Stewart and commentary and (Kipling, Dickens) and features a foreword context by Stephen Fry, expanding the by Michael Morpugo . reading experience to delight all ages .
The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury ISBN: 978-1841593265 For the older adolescent The greatest gift we can give our audience, these tales, primarily science fiction children is our attention. Reading and fantasy, are iconic and have held the test and talking about a story creates a of time . Consumed together in a collection strong parent-child bond and is the like this, Bradbury’s sophistication and depth as a writer emerges, interspersed attention children need to thrive with the humor, insight and reflection of a true master storyteller . Diane Frankenstein
73 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG Title Index
1001 Children’s Books You Must The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry 60 Cool Cars 31 Read before You Grow Up 63 Black on White 4 Corduroy 23 The 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury 60 Blackout 20 Courage 43 Abel’s Island 64 Blue Hat Green Hat 4 The Cricket in Times Square 64 Adventures at Walnut Grove 44 Blueberry Girl 43 The Curious Garden 40 The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking 64 Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones 4 Curious George 26 The Adventures of Taxi Dog 31 The Book with No Pictures 53 Daddy Cuddles 6 Airport 4 The Boy Who Loved Math: Daddy Kisses 6 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, The Improbable Life of Paul Erdös 62 The Dark 26 No Good, Very Bad Day 47 A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog 54 The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish 20 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Bravery Soup 43 The Day the Crayons Quit 59 (Flip Up Fairy Tales) 49 Bread and Jam for Frances 33 Dear Deer 56 Alligator Pie 60 The Bremen Town Musicians 49 Dear Mr . Blueberry 59 Amazing Dinosaur Discovery 30 Bridge to Terabithia 69 Dear Zoo 6 Amos and Boris 23 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? 5 Deep in the Forest 54 And Then It’s Spring 40 Brundibar 52 The Devil and His Boy 66 Angelo 38 Bunny Money 46 Diary of a Wombat 25 Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing 24 By Sun and Candlelight 60 Digging up Dinosaurs 30 Anne of Green Gables 69 Camille and the Sunflowers 34 Dinosaur! 6 Anno’s Counting Book 4 Can I Play Too? (An Elephant and Piggie Book) 53 Dinosaur Bones 6 April and Esme, Tooth Fairies 25 Caps for Sale 5 Dinosaur Roar! 6 Art and Max 53 The Carrot Seed 5 Dog Loves Drawing 34 Arthur’s Tractor 28 The Cat at Night 5 Dogs Don’t Do Ballet 35 Baby Brains 20 The Cat in the Hat 5 The Dot 34 The Baby Tree 46 A Chair for My Mother 46 Down by the Station 6 The Baby’s Catalogue 4 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 64 Duck in the Truck 31 Bad Bye, Good Bye 42 Charlotte’s Web 64 The Dunderheads 53 Bake Sale 33 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 5 Each Little Bird That Sings 71 A Ball for Daisy 54 Chicken Big 53 East Dragon, West Dragon 44 The Bear Skinner: A Tale of Children of the Forest 26 Eloise 26 the Brothers Grimm 49 Children’s Book-a-Day Almanac 63 The Empty Pot 44 Beatrice’s Goat 38 Chimp and Zee 22 Esperanza Rising 71 Because Amelia Smiled 38 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again 66 Everything I Know about Cars 31 Belinda the Ballerina 35 Chloe, Instead 22 Extra Yarn 38 The Berenstain Bears’ Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose 33 A Family of Poems 60 Big Book of Science and Nature 39 Chrysanthemum 44 Farewell to Shady Glade 40 The Best Book in the World 56 City Dog, Country Frog 23 Farmer Duck 23 The Best of Michael Rosen 60 Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type 56 Five Children and It 64 Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake 33 Close Your Eyes 5 Five Little Ducks 6 The Big Alfie and Annie Rose Storybook 22 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 33 Flora’s Very Windy Day 22 Big Brother, Little Brother 22 A Color of His Own 44 Flotsam 54 Big Red Barn 4 Color Surprises 5 Follow the Line 6 Big Sister, Little Sister 22 Color Zoo 5 Fortunately 47 Big Words for Little People 56 Come Away from the Water, Shirley 26 Four Tales 71
74 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG Friends – True Stories of Honk Honk! Baa Baa! 7 It Looked like Spilt Milk 9 Extraordinary Animal Friendships 24 Hooray for Fish! 7 It’s a Bad Day 47 Frindle 66 Hooray for Hat! 38 Jamberry 9 From the Mixed up Files of Hoot 66 The Jazz Fly 36 Mrs . Basil E Frankweiler 69 Horton Hatches the Egg 20 The Jolly Postman 59 The Garage 31 Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story Josephine Wants to Dance 35 Gaston 20 of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride 62 Journey 54 George and Martha 24 A House in the Woods 38 Journey to the River Sea 67 The Giant Jam Sandwich 33 How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? 30 Just a Dream 41 Giraffes Can’t Dance 35 How Do You Feel? 8 Just Henry 72 The Giver 71 How I Became a Pirate 29 Just so Stories 73 The Giving Tree 18 How Many Bugs in a Box? 8 Katie Meets the Impressionists 34 Gold Threaded Dress 66 How Rocket Learned to Read 56 Katy and the Big Snow 43 The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry 61 How to Catch a Star 19 Kindergarten Diary 42 The Golden Sandal: How to Eat Fried Worms 67 The King in the Window 72 A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story 49 How to Raise Mom and Dad 20 King Matt the First 69 The Goldilocks Variations 51 Huff and Puff 8 Kiss Good Night 10 Good Night Good Knight 56 Hug 8 A Kiss like This 10 Good Night, Gorilla 7 The Huge Bag of Worries 47 The Kissing Hand 42 Goodnight Moon 7 I Can 8 Knick-Knack Paddywhack 37 Gossie and Gertie 7 I Hate Picture Books 56 Knuffle Bunny Too: Grandpa Green 20 I Hate School 42 A Case of Mistaken Identity 42 The Graveyard Book 71 I Hear 8 Koala Lou 18 The Great Kapok Tree 40 I Like Books 9 LaRue Across America: The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher 54 I Need My Monster 19 Postcards from the Vacation 59 Growing Vegetable Soup 7 I Scream! Ice Cream!: A book of wordles 56 The Lemming Condition 67 The Gruffalo 26 I See 8 Leo the Late Bloomer 44 Grumpy Little King 29 I Spy a Great Reader 63 Leo’s Dream 21 Guess How Much I Love You 18 I Touch 8 Let’s Do Nothing! 25 Guji Guji 44 I Want a Friend 28 Library Lion 58 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy 24 I Will Hold You ’Til You Sleep 18 Library Mouse 58 Happy Hippo, Angry Duck: A Book of Moods 7 I, Coriander 71 A Life like Mine How Children Harold and the Purple Crayon 7 I’m a Big Brother 9 Live around the World 39 Haroun and the Sea of Stories 66 I’m a Big Sister 9 Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse 42 He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands 37 If I Were a Lion 26 The Lion and the Mouse 55 “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes . . ” 7 If You Made a Million 46 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 64 The Hello, Goodbye Window 20 In the Meadow 41 Little Blue and Little Yellow 10 Henrietta and the Golden Eggs 43 Inside Outside Upside Down 9 The Little Engine That Could 10 Herman’s Letter 59 Ira Says Goodbye 42 Little Gorilla 10 Hey, Get off Our Train 24 The Iron Giant 67 The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Hitler’s Daughter 71 Is It Bedtime, Wibbly Pig? 19 Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear 33 The Hobbit 69 Island of the Blue Dolphins 69 Little Owl Lost 10 Homer Price 64 Island: A Story of the Galápagos 39 The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) 51 Homesick: My Own Story 69 It Could Always Be Worse 47 A Little, Aloud, for Children 73
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Locomotive 31 My Friend Bear 23 Petunia 57 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood My Friends 12 Phantom Tollbooth 70 Story from China 49 My Heart Is like a Zoo 12 The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Lonely Book 58 My Name Is Yoon 42 The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 62 The Lorax 41 My Pet Book 56 Pinocchio 67 Lost and Found 10 My Side of the Mountain 69 The Pirate Cruncher 29 Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken 26 My Very First Mother Goose 12 Planting a Rainbow 13 Love You Forever 18 Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed 52 Poppy (Tales of Dimwood Forest #1) 68 Love, Mouserella 59 Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs 21 The Princess and the Pea 28 Madeline 26 The Napping House 19 The Princess Knight 28 The Maestro Plays 36 A Necklace of Raindrops 65 The Princess Who Had No Kingdom 28 The Magic Faraway Tree 64 Never Play Music Right next to the Zoo 36 Puff the Magic Dragon 37 Make Way for Ducklings 21 A New Year’s Reunion 18 Pumpkin Soup 48 Mama Mama / Papa Papa 11 Nicholas 65 Quiet! There’s a Canary in the Library 58 Man Gave Names to All the Animals 37 No Matter What 18 The Rainbow Fish 14 Many Moons 49 No, David! 12 Rapunzel 49 Max’s Bedtime 11 Noah’s Ark 55 The Read Aloud Handbook 63 Me on the Map 39 Nora the Mind Reader 57 Reading Magic: Why Reading Me…Jane 24 Number the Stars 67 Aloud to Our Children Mean Soup 47 Nutshell Library 61 Will Change Their Lives Forever 63 The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook 52 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 61 Reading Together: Everything Minerva Louise 25 Oliver and the Noisy Baby 22 You Need to Know to Raise Miss Rumphius 41 Oliver Button Is a Sissy 35 a Child Who Loves to Read 63 Mister Magnolia 53 Olivia 12 The Red Book 55 The Mitten 24 Olympig 43 Red is Best 34 Mix It Up! 11 On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein 62 Redwall 70 Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism 67 On My Honor 72 The Remarkable Farkle McBride 36 Mommy Hugs 11 On My Mother’s Lap 13 Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town 25 Mommy Loves 11 On Top of Spaghetti 37 Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks Moomin and the Birthday Button Once upon an Ordinary School Day 36 and Things That Go 32 (Moomins Series) 25 One Red Dot 13 Road Builders 32 Moonshot 31 Open This Little Book 57 Roaring Rockets 14 “More More More” Said the Baby 11 Orange Pear Apple Bear 13 Roger the Jolly Pirate 29 The Most Amazing Hide and The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes 61 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 70 Seek Alphabet Book 11 The Ordinary Princess 67 Rosie’s Walk 14 Mouse Mess 33 Owl Babies 13 Rotten Island 48 Moving House 42 Pajama Time 13 Runaway Train Mr . Brown Can Moo! Can You? 12 The Paper Bag Princess 28 (The Little Red Train Series) 32 Mr . Popper’s Penguins 65 The Penderwicks 67 Russell the Sheep 45 Mr . Tiger Goes Wild 45 People 39 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 68 Mrs . Frisby and the Rats of Nimh 65 Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons 47 Saffy and Ollie 14 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale 49 Pete’s a Pizza 13 Sandy’s Incredible Shrinking Footprint 41 My Car 12 Peter and the Wolf 36 Say Goodnight 14 My Favourite Things 37 Petit, the Monster 48 Say Please! (Little Princess Books) 14
76 Bring Me A Book HONG KONG The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend 49 Ten Black Dots 15 When Sophie Gets Angry Seasons 41 Ten, Nine, Eight 15 – Really, Really Angry . . . 48 The Secret Garden 65 There Was an Old Lady Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? 16 The Secret Shortcut 27 Who Swallowed a Fly 15 Where Is Maisy? 17 The Shape Game 34 There’s Going To Be a Baby 15 Where Is the Green Sheep? 17 Share! 14 This Is Not My Hat 53 Where the Forest Meets the Sea 41 The Shelf Elf 58 This Little Chick 15 Where The Mountain Meets the Moon 68 A Sick Day for Amos McGee 23 The Three Pigs 51 Where the Wild Things Are 27 The Sign on Rosie’s Door 52 The Three Robbers 27 Where’s Spot? 17 Silver Donkey 72 Tiddler 27 Whistle for Willie 17 Sincerely, Katie: Writing a The Tiger Who Came to Tea 15 Who Has What?: All about Letter with Katie Woo 59 Time for Bed 15 Girls’ Bodies and Boys’ Bodies Sir Cumference and Time to Sleep, Sheep the Sheep! (Let’s Talk about You and Me) 46 the First Round Table (A Math Adventure) 62 (Cat the Cat) 15 Who Sank the Boat? 17 Six Dinner Sid 24 The Tinderbox 50 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book? 51 Six Men 29 Tomas and the Library Lady 58 Why the Banana Split 57 Sleep like a Tiger 19 The Tortilla Factory 33 Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge 38 Sleeping Ugly 51 Tough Boris 29 Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sloth 14 The Treasure 50 Rudolph Became the World’s The Snail and the Whale 43 Truckery Rhymes 32 Fastest Woman 62 The Snow Goose 72 The Velveteen Rabbit 27 Winnie the Witch 27 The Snowman 55 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 16 The Wolves Are Back 41 The Snowy Day 25 Victricia Malicia, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase 70 Something Else 45 Book-Loving Buccaneer 29 Wonder 72 Steam, Smoke, and Steel: Walk Two Moons 72 Wonderful Words: Poems about Back in Time with Trains 32 The Warlord’s Puzzle 62 Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening 57 Stephen Fry Presents Oscar The Water Hole 41 The World Champion of Staying Awake 19 Wilde’s Stories for All Ages 73 Wave 55 A Wrinkle in Time 70 Stone Fox 65 Way down Deep in Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China 50 Stone Soup 38 the Deep Blue Sea 16 You’re All My Favourites 22 The Stories of Ray Bradbury 73 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 16 Yum Yum Dim Sum 17 The Story about Ping 24 What I Like about Me! 45 Yummy: Eight Favourite Fairy Tales 50 The Story of Babar 27 What to Read When: The Books Zany Zoo 61 The Story of Ferdinand 45 and Stories to Read Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin 36 Stuck with Blooz 48 with Your Child and All the Supposing . Best Times to Read Them. .48 63 Tails 14 What’s on My Head? 16 Taking Turns: Poetry to Share 61 What’s Your Sound, The Tale of Despereaux 68 Hound the Hound? 16 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 27 The Wheels on the Bus 16 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing 68 When a Dragon Moves in 27 The Talking Eggs 50 When I Was Small 52 Tasty Baby Belly Buttons 50 When Pigasso Met Mootisse 34 Tell Me the Day Backwards 19 When Sheep Cannot Sleep 19
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