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1 - Hello Lighthouse
Sophie Blackall · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
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A lavish new picture book from Caldecott-winner Sophie Blackall that will transport readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor!Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life... |
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2 - Wolf in the Snow
Matthew Cordell · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
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A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find their way home?Paintings rich with feeling tell this satisfying story of friendship and trust. Here is a book set on a wintry night that will spark imaginations and warm hearts, from Matthew Cordell, author of Trouble... |
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3 - Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Javaka Steptoe · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardJean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere:... |
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5 - The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
Dan Santat · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Caldecott MedalThis magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey to the bustling city, where he finally... |
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6 - Locomotive
Brian Floca · Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
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The Caldecott Medal Winner, Sibert Honor Book, and New York Times bestseller Locomotive is a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America's early railroads, from the creator of the "stunning" (BOOKLIST ) Moonshot.It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling... |
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7 - This Is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen · Candlewick Press
Pages: 40
Format: Audio CD
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WINNER OF THE 2013 CALDECOTT MEDAL!From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale.When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly) , trouble could be following close behind.... |
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8 - A Ball for Daisy
Christopher Raschka · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott MedalThis New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball... |
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9 - A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Philip Christian Stead · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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The Best Sick Day Ever and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with... |
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10 - The Lion & the Mouse
Jerry Pinkney · Little
Pages: 40
Format: Audiobook
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In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from... |
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11 - The House in the Night
Susan Marie Swanson · Houghton Mifflin Company
Pages: 38
Format: Hardcover
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2009 Caldecott Medal Winner A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this Caldecott Medal-winning bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers - a key, a bed,... |
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12 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick · Scholastic Press
Pages: 533
Format: Hardcover
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Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover... |
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13 - Flotsam
David Wiesner · Clarion Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam - anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery:... |
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14 - The Hello, Goodbye Window
Chris Raschka · Hyperion Book CH
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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This is a love song devoted to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild. The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy's house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway. Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. Told in her voice, her story is both a voyage... |
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15 - Kitten's First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes · Greenwillow Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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What a night! The moon is full. Kitten is hungry and inquisitive and brave and fast and persistent and unlucky . . . then lucky! What a night! |
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16 - The Man Who Walked Between The Towers
Mordicai Gerstein · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 40
Format: Audiobook
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In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own:... |
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17 - My Friend Rabbit
Eric Rohmann · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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Rabbit saves the day in a most ingeneous way.When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind. From Caldecott Honor award winner Eric Rohmann comes a brand-new picture book about friends and toys and trouble, illustrated in robust, expressive... |
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18 - The Three Pigs
David Wiesner · Clarion Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf's huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm... |
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19 - So You Want to Be President?
Judith St. George · Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Pages: 52
Format: Book
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So you want to be President! Why not? Presidents have come in every variety. They've been generals like George Washington and actors like Ronald Reagan, big like William Howard Taft and small like James Madison, handsome like Franklin Pierce and homely like Abraham Lincoln.From the embarrassment... |
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