Fantasy & Other Worlds (Ages 5 and Up)

Catwings

by Ursula Leguin

"Mrs. Jane Tabby could not explain why all four of her children had wings." So starts the first of four magical little books about cat siblings Thelma, Roger, James, and Harriet. The four live with their mother in a terrible neighborhood, filled with rubbish, hungry dogs, fierce rats, and too...


Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

by Judi Barrett

After flipping a pancake atop Henry's head, Grandpa spurred to tell his grandkids a story about the town of Chewandswallow. "The only thing that was really different about Chewandswallow was its weather. It came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner." In the ensuing illustrations, the citizens of...


Help Me, Mr. Mutt!: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems

by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

If you think Cesar Millan, TV's Dog Whisperer, gives good advice, wait'll you meet Mr. Mutt, a certified Canine Counselor. Desperate and beaten down dogs send heartfelt letters and attached photos to Mr. Mutt, a bespectacled and solemn-faced brown dog, and he responds with practical dog-centric advice. "And remember, you...


Sure as Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit and His Walkin' Talkin' Friends

by Alice McGill

Retold by a master storyteller who recalls each story from her North Carolina childhood, these five crackling traditional African American folktales about the crafty trickster Bruh Rabbit and his animal pals and rivals will get your listeners thumping their chairs with laughter. Bruh Fox believes there are roasted chicken legs...


Atomic Ace (He's Just My Dad)

by Jeff Weigel

Graphic novels are the in thing now. Here's an instantly appealing graphic picture book, in the classic style of the Captain Marvel or Superman comics some of us inhaled when we were growing up. Illustrated in glorious glossy ink and brush illustrations—just like the comics, only on better paper—the story...

Babymouse #1: Queen of the World! (Babymouse series)

by Jennifer Holm, Illustrated by Matthew Holm

Babymouse: Queen of the World. Babymouse connives to gets herself invited to a sleepover at the house of her arch nemesis, a popular cat named Felicia Furrypaws, but ultimately realizes she far prefers to hang out with her faithful friend, Wilson Weasel.So far, there are nine un-put-down-able graphic...


Bad Kitty Gets a Bath (Bad Kitty series)

by Nick Bruel

You think you have a problem pet that rules your roost? Get a load of this quintessential bad kitty, a sleek, black, rowdy ruffian who is none too happy about getting a bath. OK, that's an understatement. Usually, Kitty licks herself clean, though we see her going overboard here, licking...


The Fran That Time Forgot (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist series)

by Jim Benton

Franny K. Stein, Little Girl Mad Scientist, the only one in her otherwise normal family interested in mad science, comes up with a winning invention for the school Science Fair project: a Time Warp Dessert Plate that allows her to have her cake and eat it too. Unfortunately, at the...


Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella

by Paul Fleischman, Illustrated by Julie Paschkis

Taking bits and pieces of plot and descriptions from 17 different versions of the Cinderella story worldwide, Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman (Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices; HarperCollins, 1988) offers up a composite story, a melting pot of Cinderellas. The busy paneled paintings look like folk art...


Snake and Lizard

by Joy Crowley, Illustrated by Gavin Bishop

Though their first encounter ends with a heated argument when Lizard accuses Snake of blocking his path with her tail, they soon realize they like each other a lot. Through 15 delightful short stories, rich with dialogue and illustrated with diminutive pen and ink and watercolors on every other page,...


Toys Go Out

by Emily Jenkins, Illustrated by Paul Zelinsky

Inside the backpack, where it's dark and smells like a wet bathing suit, Lumphy the buffalo feels cramped, StingRay is trying to think calming thoughts, and Plastic is humming, which she does when she's feeling nervous. Where is the Little Girl with the blue barrette taking them? StingRay worries that...



Real World Fiction (Ages 5 to 9)

Amelia And Eleanor Go For A Ride

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

On the night of April 20, 1933, the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, entertained her friend Amelia Earhart, the celebrated aviator, at a White House dinner party. Amelia described the mystery of flying at night, and then invited Eleanor to come along on a flight to Baltimore and back so they...


The Chicken of the Family

by Mary Amato, illustrated by Delphine Durand

As the youngest of three, I put up with all sorts of teasing and tricks when I was a wee chick, so I completely identified with Henrietta, the smallest of three sisters in this satisfying tale of gullibility and chickens coming home to roost. "We have a secret to tell...

I'm Still Here in the Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs

by Alan Katz, Illustrated by David Catrow

In 2001, Alan Katz started a new trend with I'm Still Here in the Bathtub, a collection of 14 seriously silly song parodies, all set to the tunes of well known songs. I'm partial to the selections in his second volume, though you'll find gems in all of...


Junie B., First Grader: Cheater Pants (Junie B. Jones series)

by Barbara Park, Illustrated by Denise Brunkus

For read-alouds and read-alones, this comedic easy-to-read chapter book series also deals with real life issues. The irrepressible Junie B. Jones is in first grade now, and we continue to laugh and relate to her many predicaments as a student and a real kid. Because the weekend zoomed by speedy...


The King of Show-and-Tell (Ready, Freddy! series)

by Abby Klein, Illustrated by John McKinley

It's Freddy Thresher's turn for show-and-tell on Monday, and he'd sure like to find something as cool as the alligator head classmate Robbie brought for show-and-tell today. When he rescues a baby bird that has fallen from its nest, he names it Winger. If he can keep Winger hidden from...


Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes

by Peggy Gifford, Photography by Valorie Fisher

In a contemporary comedy with, perhaps, the most kid-friendly and irresistible book cover of the year, get ready to procrastinate big time with ten-year-old Moxy who has promised her mother she will write twelve thank-you notes today, the day after Christmas. Tomorrow, she and her twin brother Mark are supposed...

Say What?

by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Illustrated by James Bernardin

Meet six-year-old Sukie as she runs through the living room with a big plastic tub of glitter in each hand. "No running in the house. This isn't a playground." That's what her parents would say if they saw her. And, "You have to ask before you use glitter. And only...


Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid (Stink series)

by Megan McDonald, Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds

Fans of the Judy Moody series about an outspoken and assertive third grade girl have been glad to see a whole new spin-off series about her younger brother, Stink, just as Beezus fans love books about her little sister, Ramona, in Beverly Cleary's classic series. Shortest in his family and...


Super Emma (Emma series)

by Sally Warner, Illustrated by Jamie Harper

Even though Emma has never thought of herself as especially brave, when Jared Matthews takes her friend EllRay's plastic action figure and threatens to break the wings off, Emma jumps into the fray, grabbing the toy and yelling, "Quit it, you big bully." Instead of thanking Emma, now EllRay's mad...


The Talented Clementine (Clementine series)

by Sara Pennypacker, Illustrated by Marla Frazee

It's gratifying to see one of our favorite third grade book characters back in a sequel that is just as funny as her fabulous first book, Clementine. She jumps right in with her chatty narration: "I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot. But when my...



Action/Adventure/Mystery (Ages 5 to 10)

Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride

by Kate Dicamillo

Maybe you got to know Mercy, that free-spirited porcine wonder, in her first easy chapter book, Mercy Watson to the Rescue, which describes what happened the night Mr. and Mrs. Watson's bed broke and Mercy ran off to find some sugar cookies and inadvertently saved the day. Kate...


Sunny Boy!: The Life and Times of a Tortoise

by Candace Fleming

Always longing for a quiet life, Sunny Boy, a tortoise, recounts his life saga, from almost becoming turtle soup in New York City to being taken in by a mild-mannered horticulturist, Pelonius Pimplewhite. Since "men do not live as long as tortoises," Sunny Boy stays on in the family as...

The Houdini Box

by Brian Selznick

Awed by the feats of escape artist Harry Houdini, ten-year-old Victor aspires to be a magician, too. When he was eight, Victor read about Houdini's escape from an iron milk can in under twenty seconds. Locking himself inside his grandmother's trunk, Victor was unable to duplicate Houdini's success, and his...


Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation (Ike LaRue series)

by Mark Teague

We first met hypochondriac, serial exaggerator, and kvetcher, Ike LaRue, Mrs. LaRue's melodramatic black and white terrier, when he was "imprisoned" at the posh Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy, where he had been sent for a two month term in Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School. In this,...


Julian Rodriguez: Episode One: Trash Crisis on Earth

by Alexander Stadler

"OUTRAGEOUS! That is the only word that can possible describe the treatment I have received on this pathetic little planet!" In a hilarious graphic novel-ette, drawn in jumpy black line with light and dark green highlights, meet the wronged narrator, Julian Rodriguez, as he pounds away on his computer keyboard...


The Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio series)

by Jon Scieszka, Illustrated by Lane Smith

Want your children to find the fun in history? Have them travel back in time with the "Time Warp Trio" series. Sure, it's been a hit on the Discovery Kids Channel on TV, but the wacky books came first, and they're still a riot. In this very first book of...


Peggony-po: A Whale Of A Tale

by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Illustrated by Brian Pinkney

After a monster of a whale named Cetus snaps Galleon Keene's whaling boat in two with his enormous teeth and bites off the whaler's leg to boot, Galleon floats to safety on a hunk of driftwood. Knowing he'll never be fit to go a-whaling again, the lonely man carves himself...

Roxie and the Hooligans

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger

Whenever Uncle Dangerfoot, the world adventurer, comes to visit, nine-year-old Roxie Warbler sits at his feet hanging on every word of his hair-raising stories. She has virtually memorized the text of that famous book, Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them, written by her uncle's...


Shredderman: Secret Identity (Shredderman series)

by Wendelin Van Draanen, Illustrated by Brian Biggs

Now that he is in fifth grade, Nolan Byrd—called Byrd-the-Nerd by his arch enemy, his lying, cheating, stealing, bullying classmate, Bubba— would love to do something about Bubba. Problem: Nolan is half Bubba's size, and, as he says, "I don't exactly want to die in elementary school." Nolan's teacher, Mr....


The White Elephant

by Sid Fleischman, Illustrated by Robert McGuire

On a summer day in old Siam (now called Thailand), "hot as an oven with its doors flung open," Run-Run, a young orphan boy, is returning from clearing tree stumps on the hillside with his 50-year-old elephant Walking Mountain. When the elephant sprays a trunkful of river water and splashes...


Just the Facts

What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!

by Barbara Kerley

Isn't that the most delightful subtitle for a book? It foreshadows the fun you're going to have reading this picture book biography, winner of a Sibert Honor, about the headstrong and irrepressible oldest child and only daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. It starts, "Theodore Roosevelt had a small problem." In...

Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up

by Robert Sabuda, Illustrated by Matthew Reinhart

Here's the cocoa table book of the year, a treasured present for all your dinosaur-obsessed friends and relatives, ages 3 to 300, who will be bowled over and enraptured by Sabuda and Reinhart's latest feat of paper engineering genius. It's a look at all things dinosaur, packing in facts on...


Go, Go America

by Dan Yaccarino

On the first page, there is an announcement, in a dialogue balloon, from Fran, the youngest member of the Farley family: "May I have your attention, please?" Yes, Fran? Oh, she wants us to read the sign she is holding. It says, "WARNING: Many of the facts in this book...


How Strong Is It? A Mighty Book About Strength

by Ben Hillman

Astonishing facts abound in this eye-popping look at 22 of the strongest animals, substances, and elements on earth, including the Komatsu D575A, the strongest bulldozer in the world, and the stickiest glue on earth, made by Caulobacter crescentus, a type of bacteria found in water pipes. For each breezy but...


Living Color

by Steve Jenkins

In an innovative and intriguing animal book illustrated with dazzling cut paper collages, explore the animal kingdom sorted by color. There are four pages of red animals, with two or three profiles on each page, and an explanation of how the color red helps that animal stay alive. Take a...


Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen

by Marissa Moss, Illustrated by C. F. Payne

On April 2, 1931, at an exhibition game between the New York Yankees and the Chattanooga Lookouts, something unheard of happened. Jackie Mitchell, the pitcher for the Tennessee team, took on the giants of the Yankees, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. First, Babe Ruth came up to the plate. She...


My Senator And Me: A Dog's Eye View Of Washington, D.C.

by Edward Kennedy

"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." Senator Ted Kennedy did just that—an effusive black Portuguese Water Dog named Splash, who narrates this breezy and informative tour of the nation's capital and guide to daily life in the Capitol. Splash attends the Senator's staff meeting, takes a...


Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship

by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu, Illustrated by Peter Greste

Amidst the newspaper coverage of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, there was a remarkable photo of a baby hippo snuggling against a giant tortoise. Moved by the story of Owen, the orphaned baby hippo who bonded with Mzee, a 130-year-old giant tortoise, Craig Hatkoff and his...


Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City

by Janet Schulman, Illustrated by Meilo So

Starting with the day in 1991 that the young red-tailed hawk arrived in Central Park, this appealing and informative nonfiction picture book chronicles the life, loves, and troubles of Pale Male in New York City. Bird watchers were in thrall when the hawk and his mate built a nest on...


Strong Man: The Story of Charles Atlas

by Meghan Mccarthy

Remember the Charles Atlas ads in  the back of the comic books declaring, "Don't be a 97-pound weakling! Don't let bullies kick sand in your face!"? Did you know he was a real guy? An inspiration for all us flab-filled folks, this peppy picture book biography of the famed bodybuilder,...


What Athletes Are Made Of

by Hanoch Piven

According to portrait artist, Hanoch Piven, athletes are made of big mouths (Muhammad Ali), great minds (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), teamwork (Mia Hamm), and 20 other important attributes. Each page is a visual treat—a portrait of a famous athlete, often in motion, done as a caricature, with a big head and tiny...

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