New Children's Books

St. Valentine - Robert Sabuda
Recounts an incident in the life of St. Valentine, a physician who lived some 200 years after Christ, in which he treated a small child for blindness.

Creation - Gennady Spirin
The story of creation from the NIV.

When Sheep Sleep - Laura Numeroff
Rhyming text suggests other options when one tries to count sheep but discovers that they are all asleep.

Stick - Steve Breen
An independent young frog goes on a wild adventure when he accidentally gets carried away by a dragonfly.

Thanks for Thanksgiving - Julie Markes
At Thanksgiving time, children express their gratitude for the people and things in their lives.

When Randolph Turned Rotten - Charise Mericle Harper
Best friends Randolph, a beaver, and Ivy, a goose, do everything together until Ivy is invited to a girls-only birthday sleepover party and Randolph, full of bad feelings, tries to spoil her fun.

Thelonius Turkey Lives! (on Felcia Ferguson's Farm) - Lynn Rowe Reed
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Thelonius Turkey becomes worried when Felicia the farmer starts to fatten him up and pluck his feathers.

Tuttle's Red Barn: The Story of America's Oldest Family Farm - Richard Michelson
In 1632, John Tuttle set sail from England to Dover, New Hampshire and there he set up a farm on seven acres of land. From those humble beginnings the Tuttle family story became America's story.

1 2 3: A Child's First Counting Book - Alison Jay
A little girl awakens to scenes from fairy tales in which she can count familiar characters or objects from one to ten and back again.

Tough, Toothy Baby Sharks - Sandra Markle
Photographs and text introduce students to the development of baby sharks, describing how different types of shark pups grow from eggs to mature adults, the ways they avoid predators, and their ascent up the ocean's food chain.

Wolf's Coming! - Joe Kulka
All of the animals in the forest go into hiding because the wolf is coming, but why they are hiding is the big surprise.

Vinnie and Abraham - Dawn FitzGerald
The true story of Vinnie Ream's courage and persistence in the service of art, and in the service of a friend.

Eleven - Patricia Reilly Giff
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.

Lenny's Space - Kate Banks
Nine-year-old Lenny gets in trouble and has no friends because he cannot control himself in school and his interests are not like those of his classmates, until he starts visiting Muriel, a counselor, and meets Van, a boy his age who has leukemia.

The Trip - Ezra Jack Keats
Louie's takes an imagined trip back to his old neighborhood. While there, Louie runs into a group of strange monsters who turn out to be his old friends in imaginative Halloween disguise; and their friendly cries of "Trick or treat," while Louie wafts home in his bright red airplane, blend with the real voices of his new neighbors as, helped by his mother into an ice-cream-cone costume, Louie goes outside to join them.