![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
![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
![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!
![""](/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
![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
![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
![Food for Thought](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439110181.jpg?itok=L6_J5joq)
Fruits and vegetables have distinct personalities — at least in the hands of the team that created How Are You Peeling. Here, expressive foods suggest shapes, colors, numbers, and more (as well as a range of emotions) in crisp, full-color photographs of fascinating food sculptures.
Food for Thought
![Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters: Poems](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688178618.jpg?itok=LX_wcTQk)
Everyone has had a moment or a day in which nothing seems to be going right. These short, gently illustrated poems not only recall some of these uncomfortable moments, but are sure to help readers recognize the humor in them.
Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters: Poems
![Brand-New Pencils, Brand-New Books](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006072613X.jpg?itok=31Ers68K)
With support from a wise teacher, Gilbert discovers that everyone can do different things well, including making new friends, on the day he begins first grade and his little sister starts preschool.
Brand-New Pencils, Brand-New Books
![Consider Love: Its Moods and Many Ways](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689847033.jpg?itok=oeOpunEB)
From simple love to love mysterious, love oh so hot to love rather coolish, Sandra Boynton and her ubiquitous hippos, turkeys, and cats consider the moods (and “many ways”) of love. In impressive rhyming verse, Boynton holds forth on myriad kinds of love, accompanying each rhyme with illustrations of various romancing critters.
Consider Love: Its Moods and Many Ways
![Hello, Is Anybody There?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0374329486.jpg?itok=FxX2eR0f)
Eight-year old Joe is about to become a big brother when he meets Mika from planet Eljo, where children hatch out of eggs and life in general is quite different from what Joe knows. The importance of questioning everything, from what’s a pancake to religious beliefs, makes this gentle story fun to read as well as eye-opening.
Hello, Is Anybody There?
![I Lost My Bear](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688177220.jpg?itok=XaKvB0zP)
No one will help look for Bearsy. Mom’s too busy. Dad’s reading, and sister’s grumpy. But when Jules Feiffer’s spunky heroine strikes out on her own to find her favorite stuffed toy, she discovers much more than anyone ever expected!
I Lost My Bear
![Love Is a Family](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060393742.jpg?itok=qiQxOe-_)
Lily storms home to her mother one day, demanding a real family. It’s Family Fun Night at school, and she’s positive they’ll be the weirdest family there. Her single-parent mom doesn’t seem overly fazed, reminding her daughter that they are a “small kind” of family, but real nonetheless. Lily isn’t convinced. She seeks refuge in the noise and pillow fights of her friend Melissa’s crowded house until it’s time for the school event, where, surprise! it turns out her little family isn’t unusual at all.
Love Is a Family
![Love You Forever](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0920668372.jpg?itok=hO2Tgomk)
The mother sings to her sleeping baby: “I’ll love you forever / I’ll love you for always / As long as I’m living / My baby you’ll be.” She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen. So far so ordinary–but this is one persistent lady.
Love You Forever
![I Love You As Much](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688159788.jpg?itok=E6O8fxo6)
Celebrate Mother’s Day every day. This celebration of the bond between mothers and their babies can be shared at naptime or bedtime or whenever it is time to say “I love you.”
I Love You As Much
![I Love You the Purplest](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0811807185.jpg?itok=EC4iKGP9)
A wise and loving mother reassures two brothers that each has a special place in her heart. Barbara Joosse’s heartwarming text is beautifully complemented by Mary Whyte’s engaging watercolor illustrations.
I Love You the Purplest
![Mama, Do You Love Me?](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0811821315.jpg?itok=2DmDC1Vv)
This story of an Inuit child testing the limits of her independence, and a mother who reassuringly proves that a parents love is unconditional and everlasting. Beautiful illustrations of Alaska and the characters convey the cultural richness of this timeless story.
Mama, Do You Love Me?
![One April Morning](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/068814666X.jpg?itok=TAiLCtGH)
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
![Sad Isn't Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0870293214.jpg?itok=smClNhDk)
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.
Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss
![Some Things Are Scary](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763612227.jpg?itok=5LElUY3j)
Feiffer’s distorted perspectives on the things that “loom large” capture a range of human emotion with his usual deftness. Kids will commiserate with the saucer-eyed boy as he skates out of control, is afraid he won’t be picked for either team, or gets stuck high in a tree. And maybe things won’t be so scary next time.
Some Things Are Scary
![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
![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
![Where The Wild Things Are](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060254920.jpg?itok=r0KASUL-)
Max’s imaginative adventure begins the night he wears his wolf suit and makes some mischief. When he is sent to his room to cool off, he travels to the land of the Wild Things, where he is crowned king. This beloved Caldecott-winning classic is also available in Spanish. Go on a reading adventure with our Where the Wild Things Are reading adventure pack, available in English and Spanish!