![How to Babysit a Grandpa](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375867139.jpg?itok=73L74AGi)
Babysitting can be fun, especially if you get to babysit your grandpa! A child’s advice makes for an active and very funny time together as they share snacks, a walk, and more before the parents’ return. Straightforward text is enhanced by spirited, comical illustrations.
How to Babysit a Grandpa
![Crustacean Vacation](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/193403195X.jpg?itok=HG6iWr6P)
Humans are sure to see themselves in the beach vacation taken by a crab family. From playing in the sand to waterpark slides, energetic, humorous cartoon illustrations continue until “Another crustacean vacation is done,/Filled with marvelous memories of fun in the sun.”
Crustacean Vacation
![Another Brother](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0312643241.jpg?itok=vmdbjpQF)
For four glorious years, Davy had Mom & Dad all to himself. But things changed when not one but 12 brothers arrived. Line drawings add expression and comedy to the understated text for a laugh-out-loud sheep tale sure to be enjoyed by those with — or without — new siblings.
Another Brother
![Lolo Reads to Leo](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1580894046.jpg?itok=Ue_l5WIB)
Lola is excited that she’s going to become a big sister. She and her parents are prepared for Leo’s arrival — especially Lola who reads to him on every occasion! Warm paintings illustrate this gently, recognizable look at one family’s everyday goings-on.
Lolo Reads to Leo
![Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1600604420.jpg?itok=vz7Bzukk)
While on a visit to her aunt and uncle in Illinois, the narrator and her family unexpectedly find a field of growing soybeans which begins a 40-year tradition. Based on the author’s experiences, text and child-like illustrations reveal a caring, surprisingly modern family story from times past.
Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic
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Mike’s Korean grandmother is still adjusting to her move to the U.S. While Mike helps her learn English, she helps the family, which owns a food cart, beat stiff competition. The family once did a good business serving pizza, bagels, and hot dogs on a busy corner, but now two other carts serving similar fare have moved in. Mike’s idea — to serve delicious Korean specialties that only Grandma knows how to make — saves the business and also helps Grandma feel at home. — Booklist
The Have a Good Day Cafe
![Penny and Her Song](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0062081950.jpg?itok=RpHb2p7B)
Henkes’ first easy reader introduces Penny and her mouse family in two appealing chapters. Penny must wait to share her original song until after dinner. When she does, not only do her parents join in, the babies respond in a surprising way. Henkes’ signature illustrations expressively complement the well-paced narrative.
Penny and Her Song
![Daddies Do It Different](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1423133153.jpg?itok=FM0Oq7mE)
Moms and dads often do the same things in different ways but one thing they share in common, they both love their children “the exact same way.” Lighthearted illustrations and a predictable narrative depict the lively, affectionate relationship between a young child and her parents.
Daddies Do It Different
![Bunny My Honey](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763646458.jpg?itok=XyeQHqwv)
One day the little Bunny, called honey by his mother, is separated from her while playing in the woods. They reunion comes when he hears her call for ‘Bunny, my honey!’ All’s well that ends well in this comforting, attractive book by the illustrator of Guess How Much I Love You.
Bunny My Honey
![Who's Who](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/031264437X.jpg?itok=DwYyHV0o)
In this rhyming celebration of doubles, twin animals live on farms, in jungles; they race and play and make noise — sometimes to the comical chagrin of others around them seen in expressive, droll illustrations. Readers may recognize the rhythmic pattern of “Over in the Meadow” with a fresh twist.
Who’s Who
![The Kiss Box](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0545112842.jpg?itok=yxQ-qgJ-)
All mama bears must sometimes be separated from their cubs if only for a while, Little Bear’s mother tells him. But her love is constant and whenever a kiss is needed, Mama and her cub can take one out of a special box. Soft, expressive illustrations convey their sharing and love. A storyteller’s note may inspire others to make their won Kiss Boxes.
The Kiss Box
![When Grandmama Sings](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688175635.jpg?itok=QoEmrC4N)
Belle goes with her talented grandmother on a singing tour during a time of racial segregation in the south in the 1950s. Grandmama decides to continue performing up north “where things were a little easier for black people.” Realistic watercolors help define the setting.
When Grandmama Sings
![Dead End in Norvelt](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0374379939.jpg?itok=uqhMt2MW)
This humorous and heartwarming novel takes place during the summer of 1962, when narrator Jack Gantos turns 12 and has been “grounded for life” by his parents. He takes on a summer job writing obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his Utopian town, Norvelt. Gantos expertly mixes truth and fiction in this book. For mature readers 9-12 and teens. (2012 Newbery Medal Winner)
Dead End in Norvelt
![On the Blue Comet](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/076363722X.jpg?itok=FgOrwMxh)
The Great Depression changed everything for 11-year-old Oscar and his widowed dad. Oscar’s prized model trains are sold, his dad leaves Illinois to find work in California, and Oscar begins an adventure through time and places after he jumps onto a model train.
On the Blue Comet
![Tree of Cranes](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/054724830X.jpg?itok=QKMYfKfa)
The narrator recalls his first Christmas in Japan and why his mother decorated a tree with a thousand paper cranes as she relives her holidays in California. Based on a family story, Say’s illustrations evoke a holiday in two cultures.
Tree of Cranes
![Reaching](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1554534569.jpg?itok=clawxj7M)
A baby shares everyday activities and lots of love with parents and extended family in this reassuring, rhyming story just right for bedtime.
Reaching
![Love Waves](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763649899.jpg?itok=SWjS1p6_)
Children and their parents are always connected by love — even when they are apart — shown in this gentle book by sparkly “love waves” sent from parent to child to parent.
Love Waves
![Grandma Calls Me Gigglepie](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375859047.jpg?itok=M5KNmgFS)
As they share everyday activities, Grandma calls the narrator lots of loving names using rhythmic, rhyming language – just like familiar animals and their young.
Grandma Calls Me Gigglepie
![The Three Bears](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0547370199.jpg?itok=27rYku5b)
Ever-popular tellings of familiar folktales have become modern classics and are again available, just right to share with younger children.
The Three Bears
![Chirchir Is Singing](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/037586198X.jpg?itok=KEWuV65V)
Young Chirchir is anxious to help her family at the various jobs but learns to share her special talent. Folk art and lyrical language enhance this tale set in rural Kenya.
Chirchir Is Singing
![Polka Dot Penguin Pottery](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/037586332X.jpg?itok=uk9QtGXT)
Aspen Colorado Kim Chee Lee finds a cure for her writer’s block in a unique pottery class. Child-like illustrations and text are presented in calendar-like orientation.
Polka Dot Penguin Pottery
![Good-bye, Havana! Hola, New York!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1442406747_1.jpg?itok=F9XqpEDA)
The narrator describes her family’s immigration from Cuba to New York City based on her own family’s story and illustrated by her husband for a striking memoir.
Good-bye, Havana! Hola, New York!
![Melonhead & the Undercover Operation](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0385736592.jpg?itok=i99dkyZo)
Melonhead and his friend Sam go undercover thinking that they have identified a notorious fugitive sought by the FBI in this contemporary and funny adventure.
Melonhead & the Undercover Operation
![Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0618428429.jpg?itok=6PDmfTeL)
How can Jessica be a good big sister when Emma is so often not a well-behaved younger one? Sisters of all ages and sizes will see themselves in both poems and illustrations.