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I Love You Too

Ziggy Marley · Akashic Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

"Ziggy Marley in Concert" was awarded a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album!"A sweetly affectionate ode to togetherness and love."--Publishers Weekly"Lyrics inspired by an exchange with Marley's 3-year-old daughter are set to bright paintings of a multicultural...
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Who Can Jump?

Sebastien Braun · Candlewick Press.
Pages: 14
Format: Hardcover

Who can jump? Babies will be eager to lift the flaps in this bold, simple board book to see if their guesses are right. All sorts of creatures can jump. Do you know which one this is? Open the flap to find out! Little readers will find this guessing game hard to resist in a bright, interactive...
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Does a Woodpecker Use a Hammer?

Harriet Ziefert · Random House Childrens Books
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

This brand new title in the Think About series explores and explains that while some animals do indeed use tools, only people have developed implements that make it possible to do things that their bodies cannot. A funny, kid-like question - "Does a woodpecker use a hammer?"...
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Sleep Tight, Anna Banana!

Dominique Roques · First Second
Format: Hardcover

Anna Banana can't settle down tonight, even though her stuffed animal friends are tired and just want to sleep. They suffer through delay after delay and excuse after excuse, until Anna Banana is finally sleepy. And then . . . it's time for their revenge! Anna Banana is about to get a taste...
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Goodnight, You

Genevieve Cote · Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover

In this heartwarming title from the Piggy and Bunny picture book series, the two friends explore what scares them as they prepare for their first campout together. When Bunny admits to being frightened of monsters, Piggy responds that "even if there WAS a monster, I wouldn't scream...
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The Everlasting Embrace

Gabrielle Emanuel · Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Each morning as the sun brightens the West African sky, mother and child prepare to start their day. They spend it bound together, the child riding on the mother's back watching their world go past. Pounding millet, drawing water from the well, visiting friends, shopping at the outdoor...
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Have a Look, Says Book.

Richard Jackson · Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016.
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Soft kittens, wooly socks, soggy mittens, fleecy flocks - this pictorial celebration of things tactile explores how what we touch touches us.There's a reason why toddlers put everything (or so it seems) into their mouths - it's how they understand it ... with grabby hands, open...
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Froggy Gets a Doggy

Jonathan London · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A pet! Mom has agreed: Froggy can have a pet. Off to the pet store they go. Mom would prefer a bunny or some mice, but Froggy and his little sister, Pollywogilina, have their hearts set on a doggy. And when Froggy sees the little dog with big brown eyes, he begs to take her home.Mom...
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Move!

Lolly Hopwood · Workman Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

From the team behind the high-energy children's musical and fitness group Lolly and YoYo, MOVE! is a unique board book unlike any your child has read. It's a book that combines imaginative play with movement. Hold it up to your face like a big pair of jaws and ROAR and STOMP like...
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Fox on the Loose!

Matthew Porter · Little Bigfoot; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

In this new children's picture book, the story of a mischievous red fox in the barnyard is delightfully paired with Matthew Porter's hip, signature artwork. The fox is up to no good when the cheeping baby chicks wake up the goose. The goose wakes up the sheep, and so on until mister...
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Ninja, Ninja, Never Stop!

Todd Tuell · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Follow this little ninja as he sneaks up on the family dog, swipes a cookie from his brother, and escapes from Grannys kiss . . . only to be out-ninjad by his younger brothers sneak attack! Young readers will be drawn in by the fast-paced rhymes that parallel the little ninjas quick moves,...
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Little Penguins

Cynthia Rylant · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Rylant and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Christian Robinson pair up to tell this wintry story about five little penguins enjoying a snowy day. Snowflakes? Many snowflakes. Winter is coming. So begins this ever-so-simple story. As the snow starts...
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Still a Gorilla!

Kim Norman · Orchard Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Will Willy be another type of animal?No!Still a gorilla! In this fun, zany picture book, Willy the Gorilla imitates other animals at the zoo, including a lion, a walrus, a billy goat, an alligator, and a kangaroo. But pretending to be something he is not "never" works out. What...
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Little Boo

Stephen Wunderli · Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and one little pumpkin seed tries and tries to be scary. But he doesn't scare anyone . . . not the snowflakes in winter, not the bees in spring, not even the watering can!The wind tells him to be patient -- he'll be scary soon enough. But waiting is hard....
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Maple & Willow Together

Lori Nichols · Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

Celebrating imagination and inventive play, Lori Nichols' follow-up to Maple perfectly captures the dynamics of siblings and their ability to figure things out on their own and find a way to meet halfway. Maple and Willow do everything together. They love playing outside throughout...
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