Peek into the moonlit world of deer, rabbits, and other woodland creatures as they get ready for a good night.

From cave drawings to the invention of the printing press and beyond, discover how a story has been told in many different ways from the past to today.

In this game-book, choose which route to take through the forest and meet the fascinating creatures that live there.

Tito, the little clown, wants to learn how to do magic just like Manu, the magician at Circus Rondo, who can pull amazing things out of his top hat.

A cat walks through the world and is seen by many creatures from various perspectives.

When the gingerbread man gets separated from his class during a field trip to the zoo, he uses his teacher’s animal scavenger hunt clues to find his way back to them.

One morning, something isn’t right in Tinyville Town. There’s a traffic jam on the bridge. Maybe Tinyville Town isn’t as tiny as it once was.

Ruthie has a problem at school. It’s not the students, or the classroom, or the schoolwork; it’s the Snurtch!

A girl receives a special gift, a beautiful porcelain box, from her grandmother, and she fills it with all her favorite things.

A cat fools two dogs into hatching an egg and raising the chick as a puppy.

When Leo’s mom and dad send him off to fight a dragon, he takes a shield, a sword–and a pile of his favorite books.

The love story of two socks goes awry when one of them gets a hole.

Sally and Joe are convinced that the mysterious footprints they have discovered must belong to a dinosaur.

Superheroes have bad days just like everyone else, and they get mad, but instead of being destructive, they work through their emotions in other ways.

A young zebra has fun with his grandparents, eating treats, playing, swimming, dancing, and more. 

With gentle rhyming text, this book celebrates the special bond between parent and child.

Bella has outgrown her favorite coat, but doesn’t want to give it up.

Lucy and her animal friends share a picnic, search for buried treasure, and make a nest for baby chicks.

Ada’s fact-finding missions and elaborate scientific experiments go too far, so her frazzled parents banish her to the Thinking Chair.

A little girl, a child of books, sails her raft across a sea of words and arrives at the house of a boy. She invites him to go with her on an adventure into the world of stories and imagination. Clever use of typography!

Little Duck doesn’t know the first thing about getting ready for a party–it’s her first one.

For Owl, nighttime is the time to play, but all of his friends are sleepy.

Duck decides to drive the tractor into town, and the other barnyard animals go along for the ride.

Max is tired and all ready for bed, but when he can’t find the moon to say good night, he sets out to find it.

Kitty wasn’t always such a scaredy-cat, but one late October day, a group of terrifying monsters showed up on her doorstep.

Birdie loves autumn, but mostly she cannot stop thinking about Halloween and what costume to wear.

Grimelda the witch searches everywhere for the jar of pickle root to make pickle pie, but her house is so messy, she can’t find it anywhere.

Love Monster tries to fall asleep but he’s convinced that a scary something with terrible, twisterly toenails and great big teeth is on it’s way up the stairs.

Cupcake is so worried about what the others think of her she feels she has to be perfect all the time, but that just makes the others mad.

Guess, discover, and delight in the sounds made by beasts big and small.

Celebrate that second year, full of new words, amazing skills, and a touch of mischief, as the toddlers in this book reach important milestones.

A mother and her two children set out on a journey filled with fear of the unknown, but also great hope.

A little girl falls asleep, her book in hand, and as she dreams an astonishing adventure unfolds.

A mouse insists that there are no dragons in the book, not a single one, but you, the reader, might know better.

A boy makes friends with the monster in the tree house next door, but soon discovers there are things about his new friend that he just doesn’t like.

George and Blaise are pen pals, and they write letters to each other about everything. There’s just one hing they don’t know: George is a human, while Blaise is a dragon.

With the help of friendly spider Webster, aspiring violinists Patience Muffet and Little Bo-Peep find personal fulfillment in the court of Old King Cole.

Miles was a difficult dog…until he got a car. Now he goes wherever he wants with his friend Norman.

Mary helps her school friends to look fabulous in their clothes and accessories, but now they’re too well dressed to play outside.

Far away from his family, Fox wanders the same forest he grew up in, but the beautiful trees and streams are gone. Lovely cover and touching story!

In 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set off to tour the country in their tiny yellow car, with rallying shouts of “Votes For Women!”

In this story that incorporates Spanish words, Marta explores the world of opposites and animals.

A little boy can’t choose which instrument to play, so he decides to try them all.

A mother takes her son to the zoo to answer his science question.

A young inventor accidentally creates a group of tiny robots that employ their unique abilities and teamwork to become incredibly useful and maybe even change the world.

With dogs and cats, horses and chickens, hamsters and chinchillas–and many, many more–this book celebrates animal companions of all shapes and sizes.

It seems that giraffes will misbehave whether attending a birthday party, going to the movies, playing in the park, or just about anything else.

The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles has a job of the utmost importance, to open any bottle found at sea and make sure that the message found inside is delivered to its intended recipient.

A steamship makes a journey across time from luxury and exclusivity to stewardship and inclusion.

Six little ninjas sneak into Dojo Daycare to surprise their master on his birthday.

No hair is too unruly for Maxwell the monkey barber. Whether his neighbors need their manes styled or mustaches trimmed, Maxwell gets them into shipshape.

Aberdeen is a little mouse with a lot of curiosity, so when a balloon floats by, he can’t help but follow it.

A boy wonders what happened to his dad to change him from cool to just plain normal.

Imagined in the form of a secret agent’s set of instructions, Mason and other children negotiate the first day of school.

Danny will sit anywhere except on the toilet. So the toilet does what any self-respecting toilet would do, he leaves home.

Anya awakens to discover she has grown a tiger tail, and it just happens to be her very first day of school.

Imagines the bedtime rituals of different types of trains.

Buddy does his best to explain to Earl what a baby is, but neither are prepared for the havoc Mrs. Cunningham’s baby wreaks.

Toby likes being a cat more than a boy. When it’s time to go to school, he becomes a timid kitten.

Like most everyone around him, a young boy mocks the strange man with bright red hair, who hauled a paint-splattered easel through the French countryside.

Monsters don’t have friends, but one day, Zander meets Bird and a strange thing happens.

Ned is a pirate whose fondness for knitting annoys his captain–until one of Ned’s knitted blankets saves the ship from a sea monster.

A furry, purple monster named Floyd is annoyed because he doesn’t like being called a monster.

Groovy Joe is a fun-loving dog with a tub full of ice cream–which he shares with his unexpected dinosaur guests.

The king, the knights, and the villagers are desperate to take down an especially terrible dragon.

Bedtime means brushing your teeth, putting on pajamas, and kissing your family good night–but little Monsters like to do things differently.

A young girl witnesses how the seasons change from summer to autumn.

Henry McHenry is one messy rhino. But today is a very important day. Today, Henry is going to avoid spills.

I catalog hundreds of new picture books each year, and I read as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, I can’t review them all, but I can share them. Below are a few recent titles. (Summaries have been taken directly from the books whenever possible.)

Goon is the monster hiding in Gabe’s closet, but the trouble is he is a lot more afraid of children than Gabe is afraid of monsters.

Wally the sheep does not want to get the haircut he really needs, even after all the other farm animals get new hairdos.

A young boy who thinks baths are dumb, dangerous, and a complete waste of time, changes his mind after finally getting into the tub.

Your thumb is always there for you through the good times and the bad, like a friend you can carry around in your pocket (or your mouth).

Poppy has the most incredible imagination, and she can make the most extraordinary things happen. But her imagination has a way of getting completely out of control.

There are lots of monsters in this book! But every single one is fast asleep…for now.

Anouk, Ben, and Cara dream of a fabulous treasure buried on an island across the harbor. A mysterious man offers them passage if they can solve seven vexing riddles.

Paula and Maggie are best friends until Paula starts playing with some new friends instead, but when her new playmates turn on her, it’s Maggie who rushes to Paula’s defense.

Saturdays make Ada cranky because that’s the day she has ballet class. And Ada hates ballet.

Dewey Dew does not want to go to school–especially not on Planet Earth.

A little girl who’s always being mistaken for a boy is not afraid to be herself.

The kids in classroom 2-D are excited about their new class pet, a cute, cuddly hamster, until she’s let out of her cage.

From ten little ninjas sneaking out of bed to one cuddlebug asleep on the spread, rhyming text provides a countdown to bedtime.

A new baby elephant is born and the entire herd celebrates the little one’s arrival.

A boy tells us all the amazing things that happen on a Saturday, his favorite day of the week.

This book is a celebration of teachers and all that they do to change the world.

Bear starts his first day of school without his best friend Floppy.

Ooko the fox has a stick, a rock, and a leaf, but he doesn’t have a friend.

Otter starts her own school for Teddy, Giraffe, and Pig. And guess who gets to be the teacher?

Maggi’s mother persuades her to go to the park and make new friends, even though her best friend, Milo, cannot join her because he’s a dog.

I catalog hundreds of new picture books each year, and I read as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, I can’t review them all, but I can share them. Below are a few recent titles. (Summaries have been taken directly from the books whenever possible.)

Octicorn, who is half octopus, half unicorn, has trouble fitting in.

Little bird must fly south with his family, but he doesn’t want to leave behind his favorite things.

The tale of Lucy, a small homeless dog; Eleanor, the girl who loves her; and Eleanor’s father, a would-be vaudevillian with stage fright, unfolds in four acts.

Grandpa seems to have forgotten how to do the things that he and Noah love. Does he even know who Noah is?

There are lots of animals on every page of this book, but you’ll have to look very closely. Sometimes you see them and sometimes you don’t.

When the sun sets, a young boy prepares for his greatest adventure…bedtime!

What better thing to do on a gray day than collect some colors? Cat decides to do just that, but where will she find them?

Poor mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move that pesky bear out of his chair.

Big, brave Captain Crave can check off most items on the Be Your Best Buccaneer handy checklist. Only one thing is missing…he doesn’t have a pet.

There’s yellow goop on the floor, an unfamiliar smell, and Daddy shaved! Armed with these clues, Mitzi is on her way to discovering what on earth is happening right under her nose.

Yoshio delights in the sounds of Tokyo, but when a  musician tells him her favorite sound is silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself, among the hustle and bustle of the city.

Cowpoke Clyde gets a bike and sets right off, wibblin’, wobblin’ down the road. Learning to ride a bike is a tad bit harder than he thought.

A girl and her canine best friend have a blast playing together, until she forgets that her dog can’t climb a tree and doesn’t like being bossed around.

After a full day of evil schemes, fairy tale baddies return home to spend time with friends and get ready for bed.

Penny is thrilled to get her invitation to a slumber under the stars party, but then she realizes that no pets are allowed and she’ll have to leave her beloved dog Jelly home.

When sand shark twins Flip and Fin try to rescue people and save the day like the heroes of their favorite cartoon, there is a misunderstanding.

A girl ventures back into the realm of kings and emperors, castles and canals, exotic creatures and enchanting landscapes.

No matter how hard Little Wing tries to fly, it’s always flip, flap, flop, until one day when his fluttering takes off and he finds himself high above the clouds.

Expecting a dog for her birthday, a girl is upset when she gets a tortoise instead.

A little girl desperately wants a beautiful unicorn as a pet, but what she gets is a little different.