New Picture Books

The Goldilocks Variations - Allan Ahlberg - Presents a traditional retelling of the "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" fairy tale as well as six variations on the classic story. On pop-up and lift-the-flap pages, with a minitature book.

Honey...Honey...Lion! A Story From Africa - Jan Brett - After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson.

Itsy Bitsy Spider - Richard Egielski - An illustrated version of the classic nursery rhyme about a spider climbing a water spout on pop-up pages.        

Penny and Her Marble - Kevin Henkes

Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day.

I, Too, Am America - Langston Hughes
The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner for 2013. Presents the popular poem by one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.


Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons - Eric Litwin
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing. A 2013 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book.


Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding - Lenore Look
A Chinese American girl describes the festivities surrounding her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind each one.

Ellen's Broom - Kelly Starling Lyons
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor book. Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.

H.O.R.S.E. : A Game of Basketball and Imagination - Christopher Myers
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award book. Two friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out-of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E.


Chopsticks - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"Not exactly a sequel to Spoon. More like a change in place setting." When a pair of chopsticks get separated, after some traumatic moments the two friends eventually learn to stand on their own.


It Jes' Happened: When Bill Tralor Started to Draw - Don Tate
A biography of twentieth-century African American folk artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama. Includes an afterword, author's note, and sources.

A Few Bites - Cybèle Young
When her brother Ferdie would rather play than eat, Viola spins a tale about how dinosaurs ate broccoli to escape predators and carrots provide alien super-vision, an effort repaid when Viola is tired and Ferdie presents a surprise.