Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother’s boarding house. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird.
Mirette on the High Wire
Sparkling new illustrations refresh this Thanksgiving classic based on the true experience of a member of Barbara Cohen’s family. The touching story tells how recent immigrant Molly leads her third-grade class to discover that it takes all kinds of pilgrims to make a Thanksgiving.
Molly’s Pilgrim
Monsters, Inc. Read Aloud Storybook
In this special Passover story, Larnel Moore, a young African-American boy, and Mrs. Katz, an elderly Jewish woman, develop an unusual friendship through their mutual concern for an abandoned cat named Tush. Together they explore the common themes of suffering and triumph in each of their cultures.
Mrs. Katz and Tush
Mysterious Thelonious
“When I was twelve years old, I knew what I wanted — to be an artist.” So begins this lovely picture-book portrait of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
My Name is Georgia: A Portrait
Nettie Jo’s Friends
This anthology of twelve short stories features the work of Newbery award-winning authors. Beverly Cleary, Madeleine L’Engle, and Paul Fleishman, to name a few, have contributed to this volume spooky and fun stories that are great Halloween read-alouds for older children.
A Newbery Halloween
Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom
Officer Buckle & Gloria
Olivia
Olivia remembers her trip to the circus very well. The performers were out sick, so she had to do everything. Step into the ring with Olivia, where the lights are dim, the color soft, and a little girl’s imagination is the main attraction.
Olivia Saves the Circus
Written by the children in Oklahoma City, this book captures the fear, sadness, and confusion they experienced as they heard about the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building, and the strategies they used to begin the healing process.
One April Morning
One Guinea Pig Is Not Enough
A portrait of a true American sports hero, Jackie Robinson, who was the first African American to play on a major league baseball team.
A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson
Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue
All the glorious, spooky, swoopy delights of Halloween congregate on one street for one perfectly bone-chilling night in Caldecott Honor artist Denise Fleming’s splendid Pumpkin Eye. Gorgeous, thick pulp paintings depict jack-o’-lanterns, bats, dragons, and toothless hags, while clever, memorable rhymes capture the very essence of Halloween: “Trick or treat, pounding feet, wretched witches roam the street.”
Pumpkin Eye
Zelinsky’s retelling of Rapunzel captures the possessiveness, confinement, and separation of a late 17th-century French tale by Mlle. la Force, where a mother powerfully resists her child’s inevitable growth.
Rapunzel
Read to Your Bunny
Red Blue Yellow Shoe
Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever
A strange little man helps the miller’s daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
Rumpelstiltskin
Loaded with positive, life-affirming advice for coping with loss as a child, this guide tells children what they need to know after a loss–that the world is still safe; life is good; and hurting hearts do mend. Written by a school counselor, this book helps comfort children facing of the worst and hardest kind of reality.