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Huff and Puff

Tish Rabe · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Huff pulls the train. Puff pushes the train. Day in and day out, the train clicks and clacks down the tracks. But one day, Huff and Puff decide to trade places. Will the train come to a halt?With colorful illustrations from Gill Guile and fun, simple rhymes and verse from Tish Rabe, Huff...
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I Can Do It Myself

Valorie Fisher · Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

Can you tie your shoe? Write your letters and numbers? Make your bed? Or set the table? Can you do it by yourself? Children and parents alike will rejoice as 4- to 6-year-olds achieve these important childhood milestones and many more with the help of this engaging and fun picture book....
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Miffy at the Library

Maggie Testa · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Miffy takes a trip to the library in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read story based on a popular episode of Miffy's Adventures Big and Small.Miffy and Grunty are excited to help Aunt Alice at the library. Putting books on shelves is fun ... until they learn that they are doing it the wrong...
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Go, Go, Grapes!: A Fruit Chant

April Pulley Sayre · Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

In fun verse, the author creates a rhyming story about different fruits you can find at a fruit stand.
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TIME For Kids X-WHY-Z Space: Little Kids Ask. We Answer.

Editors of TIME For Kids Magazine · Time For Kids
Format: Hardcover

TIME FOR KIDS brings you the third title in the highly successful X-WHY-Z series. These colorful pages will introduce children ages 4 to 6 to the natural wonders of space, with beautiful images and simple text that is perfect for beginning readers or for reading along. The book will explain...
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Stanley's Shapes

William Bee · Peachtree Publishers
Pages: 20
Format: Print book

It's another busy day for Stanley and friends... Stanley and Little Woo are on vacation learning about shapes. Join them as they spot circles, squares, triangles, and more!
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Time to Pee!

Mo Willems · Hyperion Books for Children
Pages: 36
Format: Hardcover

Toilet training has never been such an adventure as when it is introduced by popular cartoonist Mo Willems. With his signature humor, the author gently leads children through each step in the process that will finally bring them to their emancipation from diapers. Featuring a crew of funny...
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Rules of the House

Mac Barnett · Disney * Hyperion Books
Pages: 48
Format: Book

Ian always follows the rules. His sister, Jenny, breaks them all the time-especially "Don't pinch. " So Ian is thrilled when the house where his family is vacationing posts a tidy list of rules. But when Jenny breaks them all, the house itself decides it's time for payback. The rug,...
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Hop on Pop

Seuss Dr. · Reprinted for Howe Press, Perkins School for the Blind by National Braille Press
Pages: 64
Format: Audiobook

Loved by generations, this "simplest Seuss for youngest use" is a Beginner Book classic. See Red and Ned and Ted and Ed in a bed. And giggle as Pat sits on a hat and on a cat and on a bat . . . but a cactus? Pat must NOT sit on that! This classic Beginner Book makes an ideal...

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Rescue Squad No. 9

Mike Austin · Random House
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

In this companion book to Fire Engine No. 9, Rescue Squad No. 9 must spring into action when a young sailor and her dog are stranded during a storm!

Follow the crew as they scramble aboard their helicopter and speedboat, racing to the rescue through the waves and winds....
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't: A Minibombo Book

Silvia Borando · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 28
Format: Print book

Look closely! This vibrant wordless book invites children to explore the concept of visibility.A menagerie of colorful animals can be found within this stylish book, but pay attention! When the background color changes with each turn of the page, a different animal (almost) vanishes...
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The Whale in My Swimming Pool

Joyce Wan · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

One sunny day, a little boy heads outside for a swim, but his pool is already taken . . . There's a big whale in the water and it's not budging! The boy tries everything to get the whale to leave. Nothing seems to work. Not fetch. Not tag. Not even offering his allowance. What's a boy to do? Luckily,...

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Fire Engine No. 9

Mike Austin · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Follows a fire engine and its crew through a very busy day, using mainly sound words.
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Who's Hungry?

Dean Hacohen · Candlewick Press, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Children love feeding animals - and now it's as easy as turning the page!

It's time to eat, and all the animals are hungry! Young readers can help feed them, one by one, with a simple turn of each vibrant page. Squirrel wants one of those acorns? Here you go, Squirrel....
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