By Laurel Snyder, Catia Chien (illustrator) Schwartz & Wade, $17.99, 40 pages Ima is a young Jewish girl, living in the Pharoah’s Egypt long ago. Her family and all the other Jewish families live in slavery. Ima, though a little girl, has …
By Steve Breen Dial BFYR, $16.99, 32 pages Pug and Doug are best friends. Though the neighbors have a lot in common—they love to watch birds and dance the polka—the two friends are very different. While Doug is artistic and imaginative, Pug …
By Jed Henry Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, $12.99, 32 pages A mopey little mouse is surrounded by a bouncy bevvy of beasts, all eager to cheer Mouse up. Using informal slang expressions as a tropological device, the dual-meaning of the tongue-in-cheek …
By Betsy Snyder Random House Children’s, $9.99, 32 pages There are few books that will absolutely delight every reader – no matter how young or how old – no matter if male or female – no matter whether one loves poetry or …
By Wendy Anderson Halperin Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 40 pages Many people around the world and through time have had ideas about how peace might be achieved. Some were incredibly famous people, some were powerful, some were ordinary, some were …
By Maggie Smith Knopf BYR, $15.99, 32 pages Penelope Pig is planning a party – a party of plentiful proportions. She has put pen to paper to pull pigs from the town with perfect party invitations. Pigs from all around the hamlet …
By Jonathan Bean Farrar, Straus and Giroux BFYR, $17.99, 48 pages If you are moving into a new home or if your child is interested in how a house is built, Jonathan Bean has written a charming and interesting book …
By David Lucas Candlewick, $15.99, 32 pages This is a children’s book about twenty-two classic stuffed toys that live in a Toy Museum. On Christmas Eve, the toys all rush to gather under the Museum’s grand Christmas tree. Once there, …
By Emily Jenkins, G. Brian Karas (illustrator) Schwartz & Wade, $16.99, 40 pages It’s wintertime, but Pauline and her little brother, John-John, decide to have a lemonade stand. Their parents list all the reasons why the idea will never work—no …
By Malachy Doyle, Ed Vere (illustrator) Candlewick, $15.99, 32 pages Sam is the quiet one. His family, the Bungles, is pretty noisy. No. Make that very, very noisy. When you hear trills and tinkles, you find Mama Bungle. Papa Bungle …
By Ian Falconer Atheneum, $17.99, 40 pages Poor Olivia is sad. She realizes that if everyone dresses like a princess and dances like a princess and wears pink like a princess and has sparkly tiaras like a princess then maybe there is …
By Susan Stevens Crummel, Janet Stevens Holiday House, $11.78, 32 pages Dog is tired of napping. He needs to move and chase – and he does! Tackling rugs, chairs, and chasing his own tail, he makes so much noise the parakeet sternly …
By Eileen Spinelli, Marjorie Priceman (illustrator) Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 40 pages It is a cold, cold day in the town of Toby Mills. It is so cold that the statue of the town’s founder, General Toby, has an icicle …
By Steve Light Candlewick, $16.99, 40 pages Zephyr loves airplanes. She loves to look at them, play with them, fly them, and even do triple loop-de-loop spectaculars with them. Unfortunately, sometimes when she does the triple loop-de-loop spectacular, not everything goes exactly …
By Cece Meng, Aurelie Neyret (illustrator) Clarion Books, $16.99, 32 pages Maggie has a great idea. She gets her brother to write a note that says, “Bedtime is cancelled” and gives it to their parents. They don’t believe it. Maggie puts it …
