Category: Animal Books
The Pout-Pout Fish: Deborah Diesen
The Pout-Pout Fish (A New York Times Best Seller) by Deborah Diesen (Author), Dan Hanna (Illustrator) Reading level: Ages 4-6 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (March 18, 2008) The Pout-Pout fish is a very ‘glum’ fellow with a well illustrated pout. Many of his ocean friends question his demeanor, to which [...]
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough?: Karen Beaumont
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont Reading level: Ages 3-7 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (May 27, 2008) Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? Well … normally I would have to say it was me, but this time it was someone else! Reminiscent of the preschool game Who [...]
Animalia: Graeme Base
Animalia by Graeme Base Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (September 15, 1986) … “Animalia came from a great love of animals and a desire to create a book with huge amounts of detail and things to discover. That was the sort of book I remember enjoying as a child,” [...]
A Visitor for Bear: Bonny Becker
A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker (Author), Kady Macdonald Denton (Illustrator) Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 56 pages Publisher: Candlewick (February 26, 2008) Bonny Becker shares a hospitality lesson suitable for children in this uber charming story of A Visitor for Bear. Bear has a sign on his front door saying ‘No Visitors’, so [...]
Elephant and Piggie Series: Mo Willems
Random, unusual, and off beat are just a few of the words often used to describe Mo Willems’ books. The latest additions to his award-winning Elephant and Piggie series, which revolve around an elephant named Gerald and a pig named Piggie, are no exception. Both books – I Love My New Toy, and I Will [...]
Help Me, Mr. Mutt! Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems
Help Me, Mr. Mutt! Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems By Janet Stevens, and Susan Stevens Crummel Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 56 pages Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books (April 1, 2008) I found this book to be extremely entertaining! Help Me, Mr. Mutt! is full of laughs for anyone who is a dog or [...]
Sergio Makes a Splash
Sergio Makes a Splash by Edel Rodriguez Reading level: Ages 2-8 Hardcover: 40 pages Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers (May 1, 2008) … “Sergio is a penguin. He loves fish, soccer, and water. He loves drinking water, bathing in water, spraying water, just about anything with water! But he has one big problem; he can’t [...]
Elmer
Elmer by David Mckee Reading level: Ages 2-6 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: HarperCollins; 1 edition (September 18, 1989) Elmer is the story of a multi-colored patchwork elephant. He lives with a herd of elephants, and he longs to be exactly the same as all of the others. … “If an elephant was laughing, the cause [...]
Alphabet
Alphabet by Matthew Van Fleet Reading level: Baby-Preschool Hardcover: 20 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books (April 8, 2008) If you are familiar with Matthew Van Fleet’s New York Times Bestselling book Tails, and you love it, you will not be disappointed with his latest book, Alphabet. It is a sensory delight with its [...]
Where’s My Mom?
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review Published: April 3, 2008 Where’s My Mom? by Julia Donaldson Reading level: Ages 3-8 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Dial (March 27, 2008) Julia Donaldson, an English writer and playwright, is one of my favorite children’s authors. Her latest book to be published in the US is Where’s My [...]
