![Red Light, Green Light](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152025820.jpg?itok=vwMN6dpA)
Rhyming text and illustrations with bright color and bold form depict a child’s play with toy trucks, cars, and other things that move. Lines on the road are created by pencils, overpasses by books, and a teddy bear is seen in a traffic circle. The book shows the child’s appealing, imaginary world, all within his control.
Red Light, Green Light
![Puppies! Puppies! Puppies!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0810958562.jpg?itok=qnF_GWR-)
A rhyming refrain is repeated – “here and there and everywhere! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies!” – as the adorable dogs grow from tiny to naughty to grown-up (with lots in between). The over-sized format supports the delectable depictions of delightful dogs.
Puppies! Puppies! Puppies!
![Llama Llama Red Pajama](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0670059838.jpg?itok=0twO0Cj2)
Even the bedtime rituals don’t subdue the dramatic baby llama and the nighttime fears that descend when Mama Llama leaves his room. Young readers (and their parents) will see their own behavior in the rhyming text and expressive and winning illustrations.
Llama Llama Red Pajama
![Blankie](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763623636.jpg?itok=3R3SnIiF)
A blanket is the familiar security object featured in this board book. The child, drawn in bold line on brightly colored backgrounds, remains the focus as he learns about blankies!
Blankie
![Binky](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763623644.jpg?itok=zwbAXibL)
A pacifier is the familiar security object featured in this board book. The child, drawn in bold line on brightly colored backgrounds, remains the focus as he learns about binkies!
Binky
![Oscar's Half Birthday](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763626996.jpg?itok=yA42Jlj7)
Oscar and his inter-racial family celebrate his half birthday with a joyful picnic in the park. Families are likely to recognize Oscar’s slightly cluttered home, the pleasure sister Milly takes in wearing her fairy wings (made from coat hangers), and the happiness in sharing a day together in the lighthearted illustrations and subtle text.
Oscar’s Half Birthday
![The Milkman](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0525472088.jpg?itok=CDI8Hptq)
Travel with a community helper from an earlier time as Mr. Plimpton delivers milk and other dairy products along with a good deal of good will and care to the homes along his route. Richly-colored, highly-detailed illustrations highlight the changes as daylight grows and Mr. Plimpton completes his work.
The Milkman
![The Little Engine That Could](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0448405202.jpg?itok=gdF_g0WN)
Rich, full-color illustrations in a large format breathe new life into this now classic story. The Little Blue Engine overcomes tough odds to succeed, all because she believes in herself: “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.” And she does.
The Little Engine That Could
![The Great Fuzz Frenzy](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152046267.jpg?itok=D95_RZWb)
A fuzzy green ball is accidentally dropped by a large lumpy dog into a hole inhabited by prairie dogs. All of this causes great excitement. The prairie dogs not only make fashion statements, but discover that fancy fuzz can cause trouble. Spirited illustrations in a large format are as vivacious and funny as the text.
The Great Fuzz Frenzy
![I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152024883.jpg?itok=UjT2JC1k)
Zippy text in the cadence of a familiar song combine with madcap illustrations of a paint-crazed boy who, when stopped from painting his entire house, starts painting himself from head to toe! Readers will recognize the utter silliness as they enjoy the color-splashed pages.
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!
![Wiggle](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689863756.jpg?itok=SRC07tGz)
Readers will wiggle and giggle through the rhyming text and collages that combine paintings and photographs in this playful romp. A dog is the focus as he wiggles through a wobbly world until all settle down under a cozy moon for a good night’s sleep.
Wiggle
![""](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/2023-06/terrific.jpg?itok=ODnAf7LW)
When Eugene is shipwrecked on a tiny island, he finds a friend in Lenny, an exceptionally intelligent parrot who talks. Readers will understand the changing meaning of Eugene’s repeated “terrific” as the story and the understated humor grow in this engaging yarn.
Terrific
![White Is for Blueberry](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006029275X.jpg?itok=4U2X_GQa)
When is “pink for crow…”? When it has “just hatched from its egg.” Vibrant, uncluttered paintings accompany the straightforward text to explore different ways of looking at things and prove that blueberries can be white!
White Is for Blueberry
![Walter Was Worried](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596430680.jpg?itok=aeWrSWff)
The alphabet is cleverly used to tell an alliterative story and to depict a range of emotions in this charming book. Not only was Walter worried, Priscilla was puzzled, Elliott was ecstatic, and so on. Each is created by the letter itself, making playful visuals for the reader’s eye.
Walter Was Worried
![How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439241022.jpg?itok=3ZGdpK6t)
They’re back! This time, the creators of How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? take on obnoxious and downright gross behaviors at mealtime. While kids will find delight when the Amargasaurus flips his spaghetti into the air or the Lambeosaurus blows bubbles in milk, adults will appreciate the presentation of calm and more appropriate behavior.
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
![Go, Dog, Go!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394800206.jpg?itok=7zeohitd)
Big dogs, little dogs, and all kinds of dogs are on the go throughout the pages of this surprising and funny classic easy reader. Illustrations use strong lines with muted colors to show playful mutts of all sizes in outrageous activities that keep beginning readers reading.
Go, Dog, Go!
![The Hello, Goodbye Window](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0786809140.jpg?itok=Bwl4W9OP)
The window at Nanna and Poppy’s house looks like a regular window, but it’s really a doorway to the child’s world and a celebration of the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren. Celebrate family with this 2006 Caldecott Medal-winning book.
The Hello, Goodbye Window
![Carolinda Clatter!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/159643063X.jpg?itok=O_NtozaC)
Because of his unrequited love for the moon, a giant becomes a sleeping mountain over which the town called Pupickton is formed. Pupickton remains very quiet until a girl who loves noise cannot be stilled. Carolinda brings a joyful loudness back to the too-quiet town while helping to heal the giant’s broken heart.
Carolinda Clatter!
![Mercy Watson to the Rescue](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763622702.jpg?itok=FKZlHR2s)
This is the first of the series of entertaining and engaging books about Mercy Watson, a charming pig adopted by a human couple. Here Mercy inadvertently saves the day, or at least her humans, amid a humorous series of events.
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
![Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1590783352.jpg?itok=JpkPxTqG)
This story of the Revolutionary War is based on a real boy who lived in Bennington, Vermont, in 1777. Aaron winds up helping save his town from approaching British troops. Pen and ink sketches illustrate this riveting, easy-to-read fictional history.
Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys
![Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006051888X.jpg?itok=tOFHwjgs)
Literalist housekeeper Amelia Bedelia is back to help a teacher with the science fair. Snappy dialogue, slapstick humor, and recognizable situations are easy to read and sure to engage.
Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?
![Chet Gecko's Detective Handbook (and Cookbook): Tips for Private Eyes and Snack Food Lovers](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152052887.jpg?itok=77YK0vhl)
This spiral-bound book opens like a detective’s pad, holding the insight, advice, humor, and recipes of elementary-aged gecko sleuth, Chet. With comments inserted by Chet’s mockingbird friend Natalie, this cheeky, funny, pun-filled pad-folio can be used by itself, but may also lead young readers to other Chet Gecko mystery novels.
Chet Gecko’s Detective Handbook (and Cookbook): Tips for Private Eyes and Snack Food Lovers
![Lucy Rose: Here’s the Thing About Me](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0385732031.jpg?itok=FyjoJizp)
Lucy Rose realizes she is a “smart cookie,” but is still thrown by the changes in her life, which include a move to Washington, D.C., where her grandparents live. She narrates her own story in this fresh, fast, often funny, and always plausible novel. Her story continues in Lucy Rose: Big on Plans.
Lucy Rose: Here’s the Thing About Me
![Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060535563.jpg?itok=zl2PHnp7)
Ivan Itch finds friendship as well as Arthur Bobowicz’s 266-pound chicken in this hilarious adventure which started in Hoboken Chicken Emergency. The slapstick humor resumes in The Artsy Smartsy Club in which art enlivens an otherwise dull Hoboken summer for Ivan, Bruno Ugg, Loretta Fischetti, and, of course, Henrietta.