Children’s Books Guide

Kids between the ages of four and eight seldom sit still. With so much energy and a boundless curiosity there is little that can keep them in one place for long. Even the very best and most entertaining books can seldom keep the wiggliest kid’s attention. That was until the book Waddle! Written by former [...]

There are a few great literary masters of our day and age. Some are know for their great prose and imagery, while others are known for talking about risky subjects and strange exotic worlds. There is, of course, one author who combines all of those things into his books, but most adults don’t take the [...]

Some Dr. Seuss characters are seen from once and are never heard from again. Others, however, make their mark in his mind and therefore in his books and come back to delight children again and again. In this case the character that has delighted children for years is Horton. Most children know that Horton the [...]

Many adults grow up and find themselves talking to…well, themselves, during times when their mind is at conflict with itself. Children, however, don’t quite understand the internal dialogue that can go on in their minds. And, let’s face it, an internal dialogue for a young child must seem like a very confusing thing! Dr. Seuss’s [...]

The most amusing thing about the award winning “My Friend Rabbit” is that it is narrated by a mouse. Not just any mouse, but a mouse whose best friend is a rabbit for whom life just never seems to go quite the way it should. Masterful illustrator of childrens books Eric Rohmann tells much of [...]

It’s often amazing to think about the things that we teach our children. We teach them how to stand and how to walk, how to climb stairs and how to talk. Then there are the literary things that they need to learn, including how to recognize and say their alphabet, and how to count. Counting [...]

Sometimes, just when you think you know all of your favorite author’s books by heart, a book will come along that you’d never seen before. In this case the author is Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is known around the world for writing wonderful childrens books that are filled with vivid characters and illustrations, and that [...]

One of the first things that most children learn once they enter school is how to say the alphabet. They learn how to recognize and pronounce the letters from A-Z. But what about those that come after the letter Z? Oh, didn’t you realize that there are things that are after the letter Z? Thanks [...]

Blueberries for Sal is still a classic story of blueberries and mix-ups by Robert McCloskey, but it is now become difficult to obtain.  Within the book, Little Sal picks blueberries with her mother, dropping them into pails to collect for the winter.  At the same time, a mother bear and her baby go out for [...]

Since when does it rain meatballs?  Since Judi Barrett decided to tell the story in her book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.  After accidentally flipping a pancake onto his grandson’s head, the grandfather tells the story of a land named Chewandswallow, where food rained from the skies every day.  Sometimes lamb chops with ketchup.  [...]