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Anders Hanson · Abdo Publishing Company
Format: Book

"Super SandCastle books"--Title page verso.
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Claire Winteringham's Alphabet Parade

Claire Winteringham · Pomegranate
Pages: 24
Format: Board book

There's fun to be found in these ABCs! How often does one see a cat riding a crocodile or a dinosaur dawdling along behind a duck? And why on earth is the elephant carrying an enormous egg? Claire Winteringham's elegant, light-hearted alphabetical scenes will help little ones learn...
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Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too

Anna Dewdney · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Drawing. Reading.Building.Painting.These are things Nelly loves to do ... but they're always better with Daddy Gnu!With fun-to-read rhyme, a little silliness, and a lot of warmth, Anna Dewdney - the creator of the beloved llama llama books - tells the story of a daughter and her daddy...
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There Was an Old Sailor

Claire Saxby · Kids Can Press
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

This playful, rhyming picture book offers a fresh and fun new take on the song "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." In Claire Saxby's telling, a white-bearded, big-bellied sailor sets things in motion by swallowing a krill. He then goes on to swallow progressively...
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Let's Dance, Little Pookie

Sandra Boynton · Robin Corey Books
Pages: 18
Format: Hardcover

POOKIE'S MOM proposes a lively dance together. Pookie, being Pookie, is somewhat hesitant to try something new. But little by little, Pookie is drawn into the dance - hopping, marching, shimmying, singing. Presented in Boynton's captivating style, this book will thoroughly delight...
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Time Out!

Ale Barba · Philomel Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

This imaginative picture book, filled with rocket ships and dreams of flying to the moon, is perfect for fans of Not A Box and Harold and the Purple Crayon.CRASH! A young boy has made a mess, and his mother sends him to his room for a Time Out. But is Time Out really such a punishment?...
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Sophie's Terrible Twos

Rosemary Wells · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Oh no! Sophie got up on the wrong side of the crib! Nothing is right: birthday dress, birthday pancakes, or fairy wings. Then Granny and Sophie pay a visit to Zeke's Palace of Costumes . Suddenly Sophie gets a chance to become a truly terrible two. Rosemary Wells captures a Terrible...
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Little Owl's Day

Divya Srinivasan · Viking
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Chikit-chikit-chik!A squirrel is chittering. Bees are buzzing. The sun is high in the sky. And Little Owl is supposed to be asleep, but when he wakes up early, he's just too curious to close his eyes again. The forest he knows so well at nighttime is completely different - and exciting...
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The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss · Random House
Pages: 61
Format: Hardcover

Poor Dick and Sally. It's cold and wet and they're stuck in the house with nothing to do . . . until a giant cat in a hat shows up, transforming the dull day into a madcap adventure and almost wrecking the place in the process! Written by Dr. Seuss in 1957 in response to the concern that...
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Please Try to Remember the First of Octember! (Beginner Books)

Dr. Seuss · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Question: What do you get the kid who wants everything? Answer: Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!, the wonderfully exaggerated Beginner Book that gently pokes fun at the green-eyed monster in all of us. Reissued with a new cover taken from the interior, this backlist classic...
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The Going-To-Bed Book

Sandra Boynton · Little Simon
Pages: 14
Format: Board book

Getting ready for sleep is tons of fun in this special anniversary edition of a Sandra Boynton classic.The sun has set not long ago. Now everybody goes belowto take a bath in one big tubwith soap all over - SCRUB SCRUB SCRUB! This classic bedtime story is just right for winding down the day as a joyful,...
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New Year

Rich Lo · Sky Pony Pr
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

After his family moves from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, a boy begins school in America. He has a difficult time adjusting with limited knowledge of the English language and American culture. His translator is embarrassed to have to speak her native language at school in front of her friends....
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Peanut Butter's Delicious Colors

TERRY BORDER · PHILOMEL Books
Pages: 20
Format: Board book

What better way to learn colors than from food! Blue carrots? Purple eggs? Kids will laugh out loud at this new offering from the creator of Peanut Butter & Cupcake.Milk wants to give bows to all of her friends, and she wants them to match! She gives Carrot a blue bow, but that's...
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Birds Board Book

Kevin Henkes · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

In what the New York Times Book Review calls "a perfect book," a little girl watches birds from her window and dreams she can fly. A board book edition of the critically acclaimed picture book from the award-winning husband-and-wife team of Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek. An ALA Notable...
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