![Tar Beach](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0517885441.jpg?itok=4Mdyfn_w)
Cassie doesn’t have to actually go to the beach; she’s got her very own “tar beach” on the roof of her Harlem apartment building. From there, her imagination takes her on a journey through time and space. The artist’s quilt story was successfully adapted into this modern classic.
Tar Beach
![It’s Thanksgiving](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688147291.jpg?itok=0D3KAi3a)
This anthology by well-loved children’s poet Jack Prelutsky includes twelve sprightly poems about Thanksgiving, including When Daddy Carves the Turkey, I Ate Too Much, and If Turkeys Thought.
It’s Thanksgiving
![Thanksgiving at the Tappleton's](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064432041.jpg?itok=nnQDci4M)
All the relatives arrive for an enormous Thanksgiving dinner. But this year nothing seems to go right. First the turkey slides down the icy hill and into the pond — plop! splash! Then the bakery sells out of pies. It looks like it’s going to be a pretty bleak holiday…until Grandmother reminds everyone that there’s more to Thanksgiving than a turkey and trimmings.
Thanksgiving at the Tappleton’s
![The Baby Beebee Bird](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060280832.jpg?itok=xK_DKezN)
The baby beebee bird, new to the zoo, is singing his song…ALL NIGHT LONG! Nothing the animals do or say will stop him. They come up with a plan to teach the baby beebee bird that nighttime is really best for sleeping.
The Baby Beebee Bird
![The Best Book of Spaceships](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0753451336.jpg?itok=KyTDx79S)
Join the crew and find out how rockets, probes, telescopes, and space shuttles work! Illustrations and text introduces young readers to the amazing variety of spaceships past, present, and ready to blast off into the future.
The Best Book of Spaceships
![The Biggest Pumpkin Ever](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590464639.jpg?itok=QhZijedK)
When two mice fall in love with the same pumpkin, it gets twice as much care! With one mouse taking care of it by day, and another taking care of it by night, it soon becomes the biggest pumpkin ever. They discover what is happening one night and decide to work together to enter their pumpkin in a contest.
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
![The Brand New Kid](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0385500300.jpg?itok=iQnb-cg_)
The Brand New Kid
![The Carrot Seed](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064432106.jpg?itok=Yr6-h8w4)
The Carrot Seed
![The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0140546235.jpg?itok=-L9kKdiI)
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
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Habari gani? What news? Synthia Saint James presents the language and origins of Kwanzaa with enticing writing and bold pictures that honor the people and colors of Africa.
The Gifts of Kwanzaa
![It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/068984607X.jpg?itok=fD_kaFs3)
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
![The Greatest Muhammad Ali](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590543423.jpg?itok=hotJ5tD7)
The Greatest Muhammad Ali
![The Leaf Men & the Brave Good Bugs](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064438171.jpg?itok=4C4kioDh)
The Leaf Men & the Brave Good Bugs
![The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590403605.jpg?itok=uQ7n4SlJ)
Ms. Frizzle, an unflappable science teacher, drives the magical school bus into a cloud where the children shrink to the size of water droplets and follow the course of water through the city’s waterworks system.
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
![The Night Before Christmas](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316855790.jpg?itok=iiL-elu1)
In 1822 Clement Clarke Moore wrote The Night before Christmas for his own children. Now, of course, his poem is read aloud to children around the world who are anticipating Santa’s arrival.
The Night Before Christmas
![The Quiltmaker's Gift](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439309107.jpg?itok=Ugp1Xwy_)
A beautifully illustrated, sentimental tale about a king who only takes and a master quiltmaker who only gives. The story tells of the true benefits that come from both giving and receiving.
The Quiltmaker’s Gift
![The Runaway Bunny](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064430189.jpg?itok=3R0gMDrj)
“If you run away,” said his mother, “I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.”A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek, yet the lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time.
The Runaway Bunny
![The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316387010.jpg?itok=bhSStbVV)
Here is a collection of eighteen stories about heroines: girls and women with as much courage as their better-known male counterparts.
The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women
![The Sky Is Full of Stars](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0064450023.jpg?itok=CtjZwwv2)
Young stargazers learn about different star colors and brightness, how to locate major constellations, and how to make mini-planetariums by using coffee cans and flashlights.
The Sky Is Full of Stars
![The Snowman](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394884663.jpg?itok=Mo1E0QWZ)
In this charming tale, a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he’s going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he can’t sleep, so he opens the front door and lo! the snowman has come to life.
The Snowman
![The Squirrel’s Thanksgiving](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590108379.jpg?itok=0I69VMXI)
Papa Squirrel says Buddy and Brenda should be grateful for friends and family at Thanksgiving. But these squirrel siblings just can’t get along.
The Squirrel’s Thanksgiving
![The Story of Babar](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394805755.jpg?itok=OC0qmDLp)
The Story of Babar
![The Sun (Starting with Space)](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688092365.jpg?itok=z7qrJQtw)
The Sun (Starting with Space)
![The Tomten](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0698115910.jpg?itok=OguiDnm_)
From Swedish folklore comes the story of the tomten, a little gnome who watches over us while we sleep. Read this heartwarming version, from the author of Pippi Longstocking, and celebrate a time-honored tradition for the Winter Solstice.