Children’s Books Guide

What can bring more joy, more satisfaction, and more wonder to the heart, than looking at a new baby with it’s cute little fingers and toes? Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury bring a look at babies and how special each one is with Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. Picture books are wonderful and [...]

Rufus Butler Seder has done it again, with another book using Scanimation. Swing!, follows its predecessor, Gallop!, with yet more astonishing illustrations that have the illusion of being in complete motion. While Gallop focused on movement with animals, Swing!, focuses on movement with children and sports. With a particular pattern of layering paper over paper, [...]

Every kid gets sick at one point or another, and there is no doubt about the fact that being sick really is the pits. In How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, one of the several books in the How do Dinosaurs series by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, the author explores the idea of dinosaurs [...]

Families come in all shapes and sizes, and this is the theme of this interesting dinosaur themed book, Dinosaurs Divorce. Divorce is often a difficult thing for children to understand, and with the help of this book your child might be able to understand just a little bit about divorce and the fact that it [...]

For those out there with children under the age of two, “That’s Not My Dinosaur” is a delightful children’s books that teaches little ones about discerning items according to the way that they look and feel. This is not your average dinosaur book. Every page is a delightful treat for the senses, giving children different [...]

Just about every child has dreamed of bringing home something rather amazing to be a pet. Some kids dream about large dogs, others dream of unicorns, horses, and yes—even dinosaurs. In Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Lizardo Family, the author tells the story of a family who does just that. In this one [...]

In the  classic Caldecott Medal Award winning “Owl Moon” by author Jane Yolen we see a perfect example of one of the most endearing aspects of childhood – the ability to take simple everyday and normally mundane events and turn them into fodder for brilliant fantasy and adventure.  Such is the story of a girl [...]

The off the wall story of “There Was an old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” is not new by any stretch of the imagination, but illustrator Simms Taback truly gives this story  a new look in his Caldecott Medal winning version of the old classic folk story.   In Taback’s version, the old lady so named [...]

Everyone has experienced the story of  “The Ugly Duckling” at some point in their lives.  It is hard to believe that a story first published by Hans Christian Andersen in 1843 would still be as phenomenally well received as it is among childrens books today, but this is truly a timeless classic of childrens literature.  [...]

Bright colors abound in Donald Crews’ brilliant and award-winning ” Freight Train Board Book”, a title that earned him one of his two Caldecott Honors in 1979 (the other, incidentally was “Truck”).  One of the most beloved picture books, as the young readers turn the pages, a colorful train is making its way along a [...]