Children’s Books Guide

David’s Father is beautiful story about Julie who was joyfully skipping home from school one day. She encounters a moving van. But this is no ordinary moving van. One mover comes out carrying a fork, a spoon and a knife. That wouldn’t sound strange, except the items were life size! Julie decides she would not [...]

Boo! by Robert Munsch is about every kid’s favorite candy-eating holiday. Lance, a little boy who likes to scare people, wants to dress up very scarily for Halloween. And he doesn’t want a store-bought costume. So he goes and paints his face the scariest he can. He’s got worms coming out of his eyes and [...]

You know you’re a great author when just one of your books sells hundreds of thousands of copies. You can look at the success as a one-time fluke, but Dav Pilkey shouldn’t. Each of the children’s books he’s written over the years has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, making him a best-selling author and [...]

English author and illustrator Beatrix Potter was born in 1866 and published her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 38 years later. Before then, she learned as much as she could about the world around her, specifically, the animal world around her. She became a botanist and a conservationist, which used in created her [...]

How can a man who never intended to author childrens books create one of the most identifiable characters in the history of literature geared for children? Why don’t you ask A.A. Milne? The aspiring novelist and playwright just happened to write a story for his son, Christopher, which became a wildly popular book and series [...]

If you begin to read the many picture books written by Mem Fox, you will see that she is not an author who sticks with one style, or with one message, but is, instead, an author who is able to speak about many different messages and who is able to write sweet stories that are [...]

Children who live in very rural areas often have a difficult time wrapping their mind around the fact that there are people all over the world who look different, speak differently, and who enjoy different things. To children who are very young, the whole of the world is everybody and everyone who they come into [...]

G is for One Gzonk! is an “Alpha-number-bet” book by Tiny DiTerlooney, as Tony DiTerlizzi refers to himself. The author of the Spiderwick Chronicles brings a fantastical, non-sensical whimsy to the alphabet book category. Making education fun is the secret to successful learning. This children’s book is an homage to two greats of wacky children’s [...]

Mud Puddle was the first book ever published by Robert Munsch. It is a charming story of a little girl and a big mud puddle. Jule Anne’s mummy dresses her up in clean new clothes one day. But when Jule Anne goes out to play, her clothes don’t stay clean for very long. She runs [...]

50 Below Zero is a children’s book that takes a potentially scary subject—a dad sleepwalking and a kid who has to rescue him—and makes it entertaining. A little boy, Jason, is asleep in the middle of the night when he hears a sound. He opens the door to the kitchen and finds his dad, who [...]