New Picture Books

Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories - Sandra Markle
Learn about animals, both domestic and wild, who have become heroes when they came to the rescue of humans.

Here Comes the Garbage Barge! - Jonah Winter
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the East Coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.