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OLIVIA and the Fancy Party

Cordelia Evans · Simon Spotlight
Format: Book

Olivia prepares to be the belle of the ball in this original storybook starring everyone's favorite pig!Francine has invited Olivia to a party, and Olivia can't wait! She takes party planning very seriously, and spends a lot of time choosing her outfit, learning which silverware...
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Trouper

Meg Kearney · Scholastic Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A moving story of a three-legged stray dog who finds a loving boy to call his own--illustrated by Caldecott Honor Book artist E.B. Lewis. Based on a true story.Trouper ran with a mob of mutts who tripped over trash cans and pawed the cold streets for bones. They howled and cried and wished...
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Big Dog . . . Little Dog (Bright & Early Board Books(TM))

P.D. Eastman · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Board book

A condensed, board-book version of the P. D. Eastman canine classic Big Dog . . . Little Dog, staring Fred and Ted—mutts who are opposite in every way, but best friends nevertheless.
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Penguin and Pumpkin

Salina Yoon · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 40
Format: Book

When Penguin and Bootsy plan a field trip in search of Fall, Penguin's little brother, Pumpkin, wants to come. Pumpkin is heartbroken to find out he's too little to go, and when Penguin tries to say good-bye, his brother is nowhere to be found! At the farm, all the pumpkins Penguin sees...
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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo, Creak, Pop-Pop, Moo

Jim Aylesworth · Holiday House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Rooster crows,Cock-a-doodle-doo.Wake up, girls, And little boys, too. Breakfast ham pop-pops, cow moo as theyre being milked, girls feed clucking hens, and boys split wood--wack! When chores are done, rockers squeak, and kids play games while Grandmas knitting needles click and the clock...
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Peep! Peep!

Charles Reasoner · Picture Window Books; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

Hooray...its spring and chick has hatched! Celebrate the newness of spring with this die-cut board book, featuring fun rhyming text and charming illustrations.,
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Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall Asleep

Barney Saltzberg · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 32
Format: Board book

High in his bamboo tree, a young panda named Chengdu lies awake while everyone around him is sleeping. No matter what he tries, he cannot fall asleep. He turns and he tosses. He scrunches and he rolls. He even hangs upside down. Finally he climbs up and up and up, until he finds the perfect...
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My First Yoga Class

ALYSSA SATIN CAPUCILLI · Simon Spotlight
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Young readers can learn all about what happens at yoga class in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read with sweet text and photographs of yogis-in-training!It's the first day of yoga class in this early reader by Biscuit creator Alyssa Satin Capucilli. Roll out your yoga mat! What will it be like?...
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Hello Baby!

Mem Fox · Little Simon; Brdbk Rep edition
Format: Board book

A playful favorite from Mem Fox is now a Classic Board Book!After meeting a bevy of baby animals - including a clever monkey, a hairy warthog, and a dusty lion cub - the baby in this story discovers the most precious creature of all ... itself, of course!With an exuberant rhyming text by bestselling...
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Flip, Flap, Fly!: A Book for Babies Everywhere

Phyllis Root · Candlewick; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

Infectious rhymes, sunny illustrations, and an array of baby animals make an irresistible page-turner for the youngest of listeners.Little readers are invited to join these baby animals as they fly, swim, wiggle, and slide, all with the help of their mamas. But what these babies like best,...
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Gingerbread Christmas

Jan Brett · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Jan Brett's beloved character the Gingerbread Baby returns in a fun-filled Christmas caper! Gingerbread Baby and his friend, Matti, take his gingerbread band to the Christmas Festival where they are a hit until the aroma of gingerbread reaches the children, signaling that it is time...
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Biscuit Loves the Library

Alyssa Satin Capucilli · Harper
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

It's Read to a Pet Day at the library! There are so many fun things to see and do! Biscuit plays with story-time puppets, visits with friends, and listens to recorded books. Before he goes, a librarian helps him find the activity that he loves most of all.Biscuit Loves the Library is a My First...
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Mother Bruce

Ryan T. Higgins · Disney*Hyperion
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Bruce the bear likes to keep to himself. That, and eat eggs. But when his hard-boiled goose eggs turn out to be real, live goslings, he starts to lose his appetite. And even worse, the goslings are convinced he's their mother. Bruce tries to get the geese to go south, but he can't seem...
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Bears in the snow.

Shirley Parenteau · Candlewick Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Shrieks of joy ensue when Big Brown Bear devises a clever sled that can carry four bears in this quintessential winter adventure.Here's a bright red sledOn a snowy day.Where are the bearsTo come out and play?The little bears are ready to play in the snow. But - oh, no! Their sled is too small!...
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Richard Scarry's Readers

Erica Farber · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Down comes one flake.Down come some more.See the snow, snow!
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