New Picture Books

The Birthday Box: Happy Birthday to Me! - Leslie Patricelli
An imaginative young child has a wonderful time playing with a box he receives for his birthday. What's better than getting a brand-new toy as a birthday gift? Playing with the box it came in!

The Greatest Game Ever Played: A Football Story - Phil Bildner
When their beloved baseball team, the New York Giants, moves to California, Sam and Pop switch their loyalties to the other New York Giants and attend their championship game with the Baltimore Colts. Includes historical note.

Nini Here and There - Anita Lobel
Fearing at first that her family is going on vacation without her, Nini the cat ends up traveling with her owners to their new home.

The Growing Story - Ruth Krauss
A little boy worries throughout the summer that he's not getting bigger, but at the end of the season he tries on his winter clothes and realizes that he has grown.

Black? White! Day? Night! A Book of Opposites - Laura Vaccaro Seeger
A series of colorful die-cut pages that introduces a number of things that are opposites including black and white, big and little, and day and night.

Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair - Patricia Polacco
Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.

The Butterfly - Patricia Polacco
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom. Based on a true story, this picture book tells of a little girl growing up in France during World War II who becomes aware that her family is hiding a Jewish family in the cellar. Since the Tall Boots--the Nazis--have marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her. Until the night Monique encounters "the little ghost" sitting at the end of her bed. When she turns out to be--not a ghost at all--but a young girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in Monique's own basement, how could Monique not be surprised! Playing upstairs after dark, the two become friends until, in a terrifying moment, they are discovered, sending both of their families into a nighttime flight.In the tradition of Pink and Say, Patricia Polacco once again dips into her own family's history to reveal her Aunt Monique's true story of friendship from the French Resistance.

Mr. Lincoln's Way - Patricia Polacco
When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world," discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.

Oh, Look! - Patricia Polacco
Three goats escape from their pen and visit a fair, but they run back home after they seem to encounter an ogre.

When Lightning Comes in a Jar - Patricia Polacco
A young girl describes the family reunion at her grandmother's house, from the food and baseball and photos to the flickering fireflies on the lawn.

Something about Hensley's - Patricia Polacco
Hensley's, a neighborhood general store, always seems to have what Molly, Kate, and their mother need.