Children’s Books Guide

Parents often have a hard time getting down and playing with children. As people age, the imagination often gets worse. Facts and figures crowd into the head and take up the place where dreams and wishes used to reside, making it difficult to see a furry monster in a sweater that is hanging in a [...]

One of the great things about children’s stories is that they’re not only there to entertain, but to teach a lesson. There are many different children’s stories that are designed to show children how the world works, or how they can interact better with the world. Many of these childrens books are some of the [...]

The casual observer would believe that most Dr. Seuss books are filled with wonderful rhymes and pictures but that’s all. The casual observer, however, doesn’t realize that not only are Dr. Seuss childrens books filled with great drawings and colorful characters, but that they’re also filled with lessons for children to learn, and not just [...]

With two previous Caldecott Honor Book Awards for his own books (“Dawn” in 1974 and “The Treasure” in 1978) under his belt and another for illustrating Arthur Ransome’s “The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship”, there is no room for doubting the talent held by illustrator Uri Shulevitz.  Another one of his phenomenal [...]

Too Many Toys is a story about a boy named Spencer who has so many toys, they are actually spilling out of his closet, out from under his bed, and becoming a constant problem all throughout the house. When his father announces that he just has Too Many Toys, Spencer has a hard time deciding [...]