In my position as a technical processing assistant at the DeWitt Community Library, I catalog a lot of new picture books. Unfortunately, I cannot review them all, but I do read them all and have assigned a 🙂 to my favorites. Below are a few I’ve cataloged recently. (Whenever possible, summaries have been taken directly from the books.)
…the squirmy wormy just won’t budge–until, that is, a group of chooky chicks comes together with a little aid from a rooster to get the worm unstuck…
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow Little Miss as she learns to be a wonderful big sister.
Lloyd Llama loves many things, especially things spelled with a double L! Will he ever get along with Al Alpaca, who adores all things beginning with the letter A?
Drive will take you on a road trip into a big, wide world and into a small, narrow one, too. …Drive is a show-stopping exploration of opposites.
🙂 Tony Baroni only wanted to eat his favorite food… Nonna Sophia tried and tried to introduce other foods… But Tony’s response was always the same: “No, Nonna, please! Just macaroni and cheese!”
🙂 Pat-a-Cake Baby wants to bake a special gooey sticky yummy creamy magic moonlight dreamy cake!
🙂 A little girl ignores her best friend James after she hears rumors that he has been talking about her, but soon realizes that she misses his friendship.
🙂 Tim, a boy, and Sam, a blue whale lost in the city, both feel unnoticed until they meet, and they become best friends as Tim tries to help Sam get back home.
Arthur really needs his daddy today! When Arthur’s castle falls down, and when there’s a monster in the moat, there’s only one special someone who can help.
When a little girl moves to a new town, she finds a place called Butterfly Park. But when she opens the gate, there are no butterflies.
🙂 A little boy wakes up with the dawn and eagerly embraces his day.
Lauri Fortino's Frog On A (B)Log 