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The Cow Said Meow, Phyllis Rosen
The Cow Said Meow, Phyllis Rosen
Children's Book and Media Review
Who knew that farm animals had a sense of humor and were so smart? A cat wants to come inside from the rain, so it stands at the door and meows until the farmer's wife opens the door and lets it in. The cow hears the cat and decides to try to the same thing, standing in front of the door and saying "meow." The pig sees the cow and tries the same ploy. Each time one animal is admitted, another animal sees the incident and tries the same trick. Eventually the living room is filled with animals. When the …
Carrot And Pea: An Unlikely Friendship, Jess Verzello
Carrot And Pea: An Unlikely Friendship, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Lee and Colin are best friends, but Lee is a pea and Colin is a carrot. All of Lee’s other friends are peas and can roll, bounce, and blend in together. But Colin is tall and orange and he can’t do any of the things the other peas can. But, Colin makes an excellent tower, bridge, and slide! Lee and the other peas love Colin just the way he is!
Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat, Amanda Durrant
Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
Bad Kitty isn't usually scared, but she has felt a plethora of emotions ranging from daring to loopy to vexed. But on Halloween night the doorbell rings and frightening creatures appear at her door. The creepy clown, noisy neanderthal, and yucky yeti scare Kitty. But then, someone drops their candy and Kitty sees all the delightful treats. She decides to not be scared anymore, but then she becomes a very bad kitty: battering bigfoot, kicking kraken, and zinging zombie. Kitty chases away the scary creatures and resolves to never be scared again, but then she hears a dog bark!
I Took The Moon For A Walk, Jess Verzello
I Took The Moon For A Walk, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
A little boy is joined by the moon as they take a walk across the town, through the park, and over the bridge. They see many nocturnal animals and enjoy the beauty of nighttime before heading home and settling down to sleep.
Pandora, Jess Verzello
Pandora, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Pandora lives alone in a place of forgotten things. She builds herself a lovely home and spends her days fixing broken and lost things. One day a bird falls from the sky, but Pandora isn’t sure how to fix him. She cares for the bird and nurses him back to health. As he gains strength, he brings back seeds and twigs from other places. But then the bird leaves and doesn’t come back. Pandora is heartbroken, but little by little the seeds grow until the place of forgotten things becomes covered in flowers and greenery. She hears her friend’s birdsong …
If You're Spooky And You Know It, Annie Huish
If You're Spooky And You Know It, Annie Huish
Children's Book and Media Review
If you’re happy and you know it, then you better get ready for frightful feelings of spooky, sneaky, wicked, naughty, hairy, and creepy! This book invites all to participate with cute, friendly Halloween characters as they clap their hands, nod their heads, stomp their feet, honk their nose, and many other fun and exciting ways to move your body. In the end, all of the frightful Halloween characters get together to dance around!
Map My Home, Ariel Woodbury
Map My Home, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
A little boy learns about fire drills in school. He makes a map that shows the exits for his house and where his family meeting spot is in case of a fire. He labels all the rooms in his house. The map also has a key and compass rose to help people read the map.
Very Little Sleeping Beauty, Cynthia Phillips
Very Little Sleeping Beauty, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Little Sleeping Beauty is surprisingly not tired. Her birthday party is in the morning and she is much too excited to sleep. Daddy has tried everything to get her to sleep! They read books and sang songs, but Little Sleeping Beauty is as awake as ever. Aunt Fairy decides to pay a special visit to Little Sleeping Beauty and brings her a present to help her to sleep. However, after going to bed so late, Little Sleeping Beauty is not so sure she's ready to wake up for her birthday party.
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?Bill Martin Jr., Emily Mccarty
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?Bill Martin Jr., Emily Mccarty
Children's Book and Media Review
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See and the tenth anniversary of Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See, Baby Bear is back in a board book edition with easy access tabs for each animal baby bear encounters. Join Baby Bear as he discovers animals indigenous to North America like the red fox, mountain goat, and striped skunk. In an exciting conclusion, Baby Bear finds his mom!
Paddington At The Beach, Cynthia Phillips
Paddington At The Beach, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Paddington Bear has taken a trip to the beach. He has brought his shovel and pail. Of course, he makes a sandcastle. He has brought his kite to fly. The seagulls are very intrigued by him. They notice that Paddington has also brought a bun. How many seagulls will it take to steal Paddington’s bun? It’s lucky that Paddington always carries a marmalade sandwich in his hat, just in case.
When My Baby Dreams Of Fairy Tales, Cynthia Phillips
When My Baby Dreams Of Fairy Tales, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
When baby Mila dreams she finds herself in wondrous stories. She imagines herself as a princess or Little Red Riding Hood. She dreams of fairies and frog princes. She dreams of the three bears and swans. She finds herself flying on a magic carpet and living her dreams. When she wakes the fairy tales are gone but she still lives happily ever after.
The Orchestra Pit, Aylea Stephens
The Orchestra Pit, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
A snake is lost. This snake is very sure that it’s in the wrong pit, because instead of a snake pit, it’s found its way into the orchestra pit. The snake explores the orchestra pit for a while, discovering that trumpets are loud, tubs are roomy, and trombones are long. The snake is unaware of what is spooking the orchestra members and keeps looking at the different kinds of instruments. Soon the orchestra begins playing and the snake leaves the wrong pit and finally makes it into the right one.
Everything Goes: In The Air, Kristie Hinckley
Everything Goes: In The Air, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
This book starts out as comic book, following a little boy and his parents as they head to the airport. Sporadic speech bubbles of busy travelers provide most of the book’s text. Readers learn about the history of planes, the Wright brothers, and old planes called biplanes. Hot air balloons are also found in the air and are featured in this book. There are lots of different planes with different purposes that children will learn about in Everything Goes: In the Air.This book ends like a comic strip as the little boy and his family enjoy the simple luxuries of …
Fabulous Frogs, Amanda Durrant
Fabulous Frogs, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
This book is full of facts about frogs. The first two pages explore general frog facts about diet and physical attributes, including the egg and tadpole stages. The following pages explore different types of frogs from around the world: the huge Goliath frog from western Africa, the colorful South American Poison Arrow frog, and even the frog you are likely to see sitting on a lily pad in your backyard. Fun facts about each of the frogs are explored, including how the pointy-nosed Darwin frog scoops up his eggs and carries the newly hatched tadpoles in a pouch in his …
The House In The Night, Kristie Hinckley
The House In The Night, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
The House in the Night is a poetic book that follows a small family of three with their pets into their home for the night. Inside, the little girl gets ready for bed and opens up a book to read before going to bed. The story comes alive to her and she sails through the beautiful night sky on a bird, eventually flying back to her warm home that is full of light.
Lola Knows A Lot, Sarah Rawle
Lola Knows A Lot, Sarah Rawle
Children's Book and Media Review
Lola is so excited to start school this year! She feels like she knows a lot until her big sister, Charlotte, shows Lola just how much she doesn’t know. Lola is really worried now, but her mom advises Lola to ignore what Charlotte said and to remember all the things she does know. Lola realizes that although she doesn’t know everything, she does know a lot and is ready to learn more!
The Wonderful Things You Will Be, Kristie Hinckley
The Wonderful Things You Will Be, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Parents can see such potential in their little ones. The Wonderful Things You Will Be is perfect for a read-aloud for your children to express your love. This book reminds us that no child is the same. They each look different and have their own potential and challenges. This book is a more realistic version of Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Boom! Boom! Boom!, Ariel Woodbury
Boom! Boom! Boom!, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
The thunder booms outside and no one wants to be alone. A little boy is joined under the covers by his animals friends, one by one, until the bed can't hold them all! The bed breaks and everyone scatters, leaving the little boy and his teddy bear to sleep alone at last. The story has a rhyming narrative that counts along as the number of animals in the boy's bed increases with each turn of the page. The storm outside the boy's room is paired with large, colorful type for its onomatopoetic booms and crashes. The illustrations have soft edges …
Daylight Starlight Wild Life, Kelsie Ward
Daylight Starlight Wild Life, Kelsie Ward
Children's Book and Media Review
Daylight Starlight Wild Life is a brilliant depiction for the introduction of diurnal and nocturnal creatures. This story leads the reader to experience a variety of animals and their roaming habits by day and night, and back again. The story itself creates a contrasting displays of animals from a red-tailed hawk that soars by day, to a wide-eyed barn owl that is silent by night. A cottontail rabbit and kits to a pink-nosed opossum and family, and many more. Many of the animals are familiar to children, such as rabbits and deer, but there are also several that are lesser …
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Jess Verzello
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
This fun Brown Bear series book changes things up a bit and asks what each animal hears rather than sees. With an exotic array of animals from a snorting hippopotamus, fluting flamingo, braying zebra, trumpeting elephant, to a bellowing walrus kids will love to read this book aloud and make each noise. It turns out the all these animals live in the zoo together and the zookeeper hears the children imitating each animal. This durable board book is perfect for toddlers to primary kids as they will never tire of the beautiful illustrations and the fun noises each animal makes. …
How To Be Famous, Carlie Smith
How To Be Famous, Carlie Smith
Children's Book and Media Review
Pigeon is the most famous and most important animal at the zoo - or at least that’s what he would say! He is shown in different exhibits soaking in the limelight. In reality, people are there for the other, much more majestic creatures like elephants or crocodiles. Unfortunately, Pigeon’s cockiness and presence is quite the irritant to both people and animals. He is oblivious to their true feelings. Eventually his big-head leads him too close to a lion and he is gobbled up! This book cleverly makes the illustrations an integral part of the story. The lecture preached by Pigeon …
Cheetah Can't Lose, Carlie Smith
Cheetah Can't Lose, Carlie Smith
Children's Book and Media Review
Two kittens challenge the normally dominant Cheetah to a race. To give themselves a chance at winning, they slyly design pre-race contests to slow Cheetah down. Cheetah enters the race with boxes on his feet, a belly full of ice cream, a knit sweater, and a bouquet of balloons tied to his hands, and a crown to cover his eyes. The kittens easily win, but Cheetah still thinks he is the victor. They kindly do not disagree and celebrate their friend even though he is overconfident. In this twist on the fable The Tortoise and The Hare, the small but …
The Dead Bird, Carlie Smith
The Dead Bird, Carlie Smith
Children's Book and Media Review
Children learn to love and mourn a dead bird they find at the park. They are glad that they can give it a funeral. They lovingly plant flowers and compose a song. They remain dedicated to tending the grave until they forget. This deceptively simple book is another powerful story from the author of Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown. The repetition of the phrases, and sometimes illogical sentences capture the experience, reasoning, and feelings of young children. The kids in the story mimic with characteristic simplicity and sincerity the patterns of mourning that they’ve seen grown ups do. This edition …
Bear's Big Breakfast, Kelsie Ward
Bear's Big Breakfast, Kelsie Ward
Children's Book and Media Review
Bear’s Big Breakfast is a classic read-aloud story that helps children identify the letter “b.” The story takes the young readers on an adventure in search for the hungry little cub to find something to eat for breakfast, after a long hibernation. The bear knows that the food that he is in search of begins with the letter “b,” and along his journey encounters a various number of other friends, who’s characters also begin with the letter “b.” Though his friends all agree that they would not make a suitable breakfast for the cub, they agree to help in his …
Egg, Jess Verzello
Egg, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Four eggs: pink, blue, yellow, and green! The pink, blue, and yellow eggs hatch to reveal baby birds inside, but the green egg hasn’t moved. The birds come back and peck at the green egg until it hatches to reveal a surprise: a baby alligator! Scared, the birds fly away at first and the alligator is sad, but they soon return and become friends. This book would be the perfect gift for celebrating Easter and springtime. The pastel colors and clean illustration style bring out the message of friendship and accepting what is different from us. The text is repetitive …
Flat Stanley And The Very Big Cookie, Kristie Hinckley
Flat Stanley And The Very Big Cookie, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Stanley Lambchop was just a normal boy, until a bulletin board fell on top of him and smashed him flat. He uses his flatness to his advantage and helps fix problems in the community doing things that “non-flat” people can’t do! This time, Pete the baker needs something new and exciting that will bring in customers. They brainstorm, but can’t seem to think of anything. After school, Flat Stanley and Arthur run to check on Pete, but Flat Stanley slips on the mess in the bakery and lands face-first in the rolled out cookie dough. That gives Pete the idea …
Pete The Cat And His Magic Sunglasses, Nicole Davis
Pete The Cat And His Magic Sunglasses, Nicole Davis
Children's Book and Media Review
Pete the Cat is having a rare rough day. It starts to look worse when grumpy toad shows up, but when he shares his secret cool, blue, magic sunglasses with Pete things get better. Pete sees the world in a completely new way. He encounters some unhappy friends and shares his cool, blue, magic sunglasses to help them cheer up. Suddenly, Pete crashes his skateboard and his cool, blue, magic sunglasses shatter. Wise owl tells Pete that he does not need the magic sunglasses to see the world in a new way, he just needs to look for the good …
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?, Jess Verzello
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
This new addition to the Brown Bear series by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle follows endangered animals and all that they see. A Panda Bear, a Bald Eagle, a Water Buffalo, a Spider Monkey, a Green Sea Turtle, a Macaroni Penguin, a Sea Lion, and so many more animals to see! This board book will keep young readers turning each page. Now in a durable board book format, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? focuses less on assigning specific colors to each animal, but instead brings to attention different endangered animals. Carle’s illustrations are beautiful as always …
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? —10th Anniversary Edition, Jess Verzello
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? —10th Anniversary Edition, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Adding to the collection of Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle’s classic Brown Bear series, Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? explores the various animals and sights that Baby Bear sees. First there is a Red Fox, then a Flying Squirrel, then a Mountain Goat, and even a Blue Heron! Finally Mama Bear spots her little Baby Bear looking right at her. With the 10th Anniversary Edition, children can listen and read along as Gwyneth Paltrow interprets this fun story. Once again Bill Martin Jr. captures the rhythmic flow of his text as the story travels from one …
Saturday With Daddy, Ariel Woodbury
Saturday With Daddy, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Little elephant wakes up his dad on Saturday morning so they can run errands and prepare for a barbecue. They shop for marshmallows, hot dogs, charcoal, and a shiny red grill. After they get home, little elephant helps his dad to assemble the grill and cook hot dogs for lunch in their matching red aprons. Once they have finished their hot dogs, they toast some marshmallows and play Frisbee in the yard. Mommy tells them it’s nap time, so they climb into the hammock together to sleep. This book has brightly colored illustrations with crisp lines that will capture the …