Children’s Books Guide

It takes a great deal of patience and understanding to write childrens books.  It takes even more to write picture books for children that have a real moral involved.  In  “The Three Questions”, Caldecott Award winning author and illustrator John J. Muth does exactly that in a beautiful and poetic way.  In this story, we [...]

In the story  “Outside Over There” by Maurice Sendak,  the phenomenally talented illustrator of “Where the Wild Things Are” and other childrens books, has his main character Ida descend into a mystical and magical world in search of her lost sister and while searching for her, finds things about both herself and those she cares [...]

“The House in the Night”  by writer Susan Marie Swanson and illustrator Beth Krommes is a story that knows few equals.  In fact, though marketed with most other childrens books, more than a few adults have added it to their own collections and with good reason.  Swanson’s words are few and far between leaving more [...]

The child’s world is one of self discovery and self involvement.  The world starts and stops with a thought or a whim, at least in the childish thought process.  In no story is this better exemplified than in the award winning “The Hello, Goodbye Window” by writer / illustrator combination Norton Juster and Chris Raschka.  [...]

Though it may seem just as applicable to the youth of today, “The Boy of the Three-Year Nap” is actually a retelling of a classic folk tale with the outer trappings of a Japanese setting.  A Japanese youth by the name of Taro – whose nickname is the source of the title of this story [...]

If you and your children love out of the ordinary stories, parodies that take a new twist on timeless classics- sometimes becoming a classic itself, then you will love Goodnight Goon, by Michael Rex. Parody to Goodnight Moon, the ever popular children’s bedtime book, this one offers a new twist on bedtime fun. Not only [...]

If you are looking for old fashioned, same as all the others, nothing out of the ordinary, picture books, then this one definitely isn’t for you. Gallop! is a Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Butler Seder. With some newer technology that is basically made up of placing layers of paper in positions to simulate movement, [...]

Mole rats are supposed to naked, right? That may be so, but in Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, there is a mole rat named Wilbur who is very different from all of the other mole rats. He has a secret, and he aims to keep it. He discovers through the story that his secret isn’t [...]

Whether your child is a fan of dinosaurs or trains, Dinosaur Train is a book that is sure to please. This book tells the story of a little boy named Jesse who has two simple obsessions: dinosaurs and trains. He falls into a daydream of sorts relating to his two favorite things. Out of nowhere, [...]

Stone Soup was a fable made immortal by Marcia Brown.  Many places in the world have similar versions, but Marcia Brown decided to bring the story into the realm of children’s books decades ago in 1947.  Since then, Stone Soup has been read by countless children and adults around the world. Three hungry French soldiers [...]