New Children's Books

Yoko Writes Her Name - Rosemary Wells
Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.

Smelly Locker: Silly Dilly School Songs - Alan Katz
Well-known songs, including "Oh Susannah" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," are presented with new words and titles, such as "Heavy Backpack!" and "I Don't Want to Do Homework!"

Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure - Doreen Cronin
The annual Corn Maze Festival is coming and every day the chickens, cows, and Duck help Farmer Brown--with a few bribes--to create a special Statue of Liberty corn maze, and every night Duck works hard creating his own surprise.




Nancy, La Elegante - Jane O'Connor
A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.

African Critters - Robert B. Haas
From elephants to dung beetles, photos of selected African animals.

C Is for Caboose: Riding the Rails from A to Z
Introduces the letters of the alphabet through photographs and illustrations of things associated with trains and the railroad.

Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall Thin Tale - Deborah Hopkinson
In Knob Creek, Kentucky, in 1816, seven-year-old Abe Lincoln falls into a creek and is rescued by his best friend, Austin Gollaher.

Love, Splat - Rob Scotton
Splat the cat has a special valentine for a certain someone in his class.

Small Worlds: Maps and Map Making - Karen Romano Young
Kids will learn how maps are put together in layers like sandwiches, how to use a map to get oriented, and the use of hundreds of different kinds of maps.

First Snow in the Woods - Carl R. Sams
A photographic journey deep into the autumn woods witnesses the animals of the forest getting ready for the year's first winter storm.

Erika-San - Allen Say
After falling in love with Japan as a little girl, Erika becomes a teacher and fulfills her childhood dream by moving to a remote Japanese island.

Wabi Sabi - Mark Reibstein
Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.

Abraham Lincoln Comes Home - Robert Burleigh
Told through the eyes of a young boy, the sober mood of the country after the Lincoln assassination is presented as he and many other mourners wait to pay their respects to their fallen president as Lincoln's funeral train travels from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, in 1865.

Drummer Boy - Loren Long
After accidentally being thrown away, a beloved toy drummer boy goes on an adventure that eventually brings him back to a warm home, where he is placed near baby Jesus in a manger scene.