Children’s Books Guide

Just as each person looks for his own gifts, his own personality, and his own voice in the world, so does The Very Quiet Cricket. Hatched from an egg one warm day, the little cricket tries to make noise, but nothing will come out. As he goes on to meet many other insects, he tries [...]

Graeme Base does it once again with this timeless children’s classic, Uno’s Garden. With a message that will inspire you and your children to treat the environment well and do what you can to take care of our world, this fantastically told tale offers to entertain as well as offer a message of hope and [...]

With a story that will capture the essence of The Very Busy Spider, Eric Carle gives a new spin to what many of us take for granted- spiders, as well as what they do and how busy they really are. Besides offering a stimulating story line that will capture the imagination, this story offers a [...]

Little children often love to have stuffed animals, and there are many stories and movies out there that examine the possibility that stuffed animals can talk to each other, or that they come alive when everyone sleeps. There are a few childrens books which also talk about this possibility, and of those books, Ellen’s Lion [...]

For a dinosaur book that both parents and children can easily relate to, How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? Is a great read aloud story for any family. Most children who have their own rooms have issues with cleaning it and keeping it clean, there is no doubt about that. The author attempts to solve [...]

Originally written by the rather prolific childrens books author Leo Lionni in 1969, “Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse” was reissued nearly forty years later in 2006 to delight a brand new generation of young readers. Before his death in 1999, Lionni was the proud recipient of four Caldecott Awards for the illustrations in his [...]

The delightful  “Hondo and Fabian” was written and illustrated by Peter McCarty, author of such other childrens books as “T is for Terrible”, “Little Bunny on the Move” and  “Baby Steps”.  In “Hondo and Fabian”, for which he won a Caldecott picture books award, McCarty features his distinctive style of pencil drawing, complemented by  warm [...]

If you have a preschool aged child you’ve likely seen Olivier Dunrae’s work. Olivier Dunrae was the genius behind Gossie and Gertie, two goslings who get into all sorts of situations that who have entrenched themselves firmly in the hearts and minds of preschoolers around the nation. In the childrens books featuring the pair of [...]

Reading a Graeme Base book has never been so much fun as when the story is told in poetic rhyme and rhythm. The Sign of the Seahorse offers more than a simple story, it offers to delight any audience with such musical verse and artistic adventure, not often found among children’s books. Though the intended [...]

What does every child have in common? The desire to do things that they see other, usually older, children do. When they try, sometimes they fail the first few times, and sometimes they need to learn the trick to being successful. When The Very Clumsy Click Beetle is read to children, they will see that [...]