Children’s Books Guide

Patricia Polacco often writes tales focused on historical stories and cultural differences, but she has also created picture books that have a bit more fancy to them. With a bit of imagination, wonder, and a surprising ending, she spins a tale that is like a mythological story that will leave every reader with a smile [...]

Mercer Mayer, writer of books for kids, has always brought pure joy to children all over through his Little Critter series. Plucking ideas straight from kids, Mayer creates adorable little tales using his Critter creatures, and one in particular who stars in each and every one. His illustrations are also a cause for celebration, as [...]

Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure is the first book by Tony DiTerlizzi, the author of the now-famous Spiderwick Chronicles. This book explores just how far a boy will go to get his favorite snack, a Moon Pie. From page one, it grabs readers and pulls them into the 1950s, when life was simpler. The illustrations [...]

A Promise is a Promise is a story co-written by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak. Unlike others of Munsch’s picture books, this is a departure from the tales of typical American children facing school yard demises real and imagined. Instead it’s a highly cultural piece that, while not classic Munsch, still makes for an amazingly [...]

Author Laura Numeroff is perhaps best known for her work on the “If You Give A…” series of children’s books. These books are well-known by young children and their parents for being silly and for being a great read when it is time to turn off the lights. But Numeroff has written many more books [...]

One thing that is often difficult to do with children’s books is to relay a picture and story that will allow children to truly grasp the historical significance of an event. Author David A. Adler has done just that, along with illustrator Robert Casilla, in the book, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

When Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond introduced the world to the Mouse in If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, kids’ literature was never to be the same again. In one little book the duo showed other authors and illustrators that children were capable of learning from silliness, and that parents could enjoy reading stories [...]

Some titles are simply hard to ignore, and Patricia Polacco’s The Trees of the Dancing Goats is one of them! Goats? Trees? Dancing? How could you ignore this book? Polacco constantly draws from her life experiences and other stories people have told her to create heartwarming tales for children and their parents to read. With [...]

If you go to the library to look for a children’s book, you’ll likely run across the name Mem Fox. Mem Fox is an author of literature written for children who has helped children not only to learn to enjoy reading, but she has also introduced them to the land of Australia, as she comes [...]

For decades, Audrey Wood has supplied kids with fun books. Her stories teach, entertain, and encourage kids to use their imagination. She likes to take them to different worlds, from an alphabet city to fairy tale-like places with giants and kings. Though Wood often does her own illustrations, she sometimes teams up with others. In [...]