Children’s Books Guide

What child doesn’t love a counting book? With 10 Little Rubber Ducks, you get more than a counting book- you actually get an amazing story about the little toy rubber ducks, that will offer  you and your children an adventure that includes travel, distance, direction, interacting with other animals, and counting. All thanks to the [...]

Virginia Lee Burton’s book, The Little House, won the Caldecott Award in 1943, quick work for a book published only a year before.  During a time when children’s books were in full swing, The Little House took hold of the hearts of parents and children and the little red house still finds its way into [...]

Eric Carle’s ABC book is not just another alphabet book. With the colorful collage type of illustrations he has become known for, Carle has created an alphabet book that is both simple to understand, and pleasant to look at. With each letter designed in his trademark colorful way, each letter is presented with an animal [...]

For parents and kids looking for bold, fantastic children’s books, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is definitely a title worth checking out.  Bill Martin Jr., the author often found working together with the renowned Eric Carle, pens a merry alphabet rhyme in which the letters of the alphabet are center stage and start challenging each other [...]

Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes  who is known both for childrens books  and for books written for young adults (such as the Newberry Honor Book “Olive’s Ocean”),”Kitten’s First Full Moon” is the delightful story of Kitten, the aptly named feline who is perpetually on a quest to get to that ever elusive saucer of [...]

Though the original idea was simply to create an alphabet reader for the 4 to 8 age group, illustrator David McLimans who is himself no stranger to illustration at all, much less that of picture books, definitely went above and beyond the call of duty with Gone Wild . Subtitled “An Endangered Animal Alphabet”, this [...]

Children are forced to grow up so quickly these days, making childrens books like Vera B. Williams’ ““More More More,” Said the Baby” all the more refreshing.  In her Caldecott Honor Award winning book Williams relays the sheer delight of childhood as she tells the simple stories of three children each from a different ethnic [...]

A true standout among popular childrens books is “Sam, Bangs & Moonshine”.  The 1967 Caldecott Medal winning book by Evaline Ness is still just as enjoyable and relevant today. Samantha (who it seems is always called by the name Sam) is the child of a fisherman.  Without a mother present in her life, Sam is [...]

Amelia Bedelia was first published in 1963 by Peggy Parish and has charmed children from kindergarten to third grade ever since.  Amelia Bedelia is a maid who performs all her tasks in a very literal sense.  Shall she dress the chicken?  Of course – what should the chicken wear?  Her well-meaning but ill-performed shenanigans will [...]

“First the Egg”, the delightful childrens book by Laura Seeger is truly a page turner from the very start.  From the artwork on the dust cover that shows a comfortably nested egg to the high gloss hard cover underneath that reveals a chicken, there are new surprises at every turn in this fantastic book with [...]