New Picture Books

I'm Trying to Love Spiders - Bethany Barton
This fresh and very funny non-fiction picture book shares lots of fascinating facts about spiders in an entirely captivating way. If "I'm Trying to Love Spiders" doesn't cure your spider phobia, it'll at least make you appreciate how amazing they are...and laugh a lot as you learn about them.

The Princess and the Pony  - Kate Beaton
Princess Pinecone would like a real war horse for her birthday, instead of which she gets a plump, cute pony--but sometimes cuteness can be a kind of weapon, especially in a fight with dodgeballs and spitballs and hairballs and squareballs.

Little Big - Jonathan Bentley
A little boy imagines what it would be like to be big, with long legs like a giraffe, big hands like a gorilla, or a big mouth like a crocodile, but realizes that there are advantages to being perfectly little.


Monkey Not Ready for Kindergarten - Marc Brown
Kindergarten is just a week away and Monkey is not ready, but with help and encouragement from family and friends, he begins to get excited.


Not This Bear: A First Day of School Story - Alyssa Satin Capucilli - It's Bear's first day of school, and he's a bit reluctant to go. Mama says all bears love school; Bear isn't so sure. But school turns out to be full of fun--painting pictures, listening to stories, and making new friends. Maybe this bear will like school after all.

The Day the Crayons Came Home - Drew Daywalt
One day, Duncan is happily coloring with his crayons when a stack of postcards arrives in the mail from his former crayons, each of which has run away or been left behind, and all of which want to come home.


By Mouse and Frog - Deborah Freedman
"Mouse has one idea about what a book should be and how to tell a story. Frog has another. What happens when these two very different friends try to create a book together?"-- Provided by publisher

The Night World - Modicai Gerstein
Sylvie the cat persuades her boy to go into the darkness very late at night, where they're greeted by the shadows of roses and other flowers, and by nocturnal animals who whisper, "It's almost here."


I Will Chomp You! - Jory John
A monster tries to chomp any reader who wants to go past the first page of the book in order to keep his cakes safe.

Float - Daniel Miyares
A wordless picture book about a boy who loses his paper boat in the rain.


If You Plant a Seed - Kadir Nelson
While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.

This is Sadie - Sara O'Leary

Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She whispers to the dresses in her closet and talks to birds in the treetops. She has wings that take her anywhere she wants to go, but that always bring her home again. She likes to make things -- boats out of boxes and castles out of cushions. But more than anything Sadie likes stories, because you can make them from nothing at all. For Sadie, the world is so full of wonderful possibilities ... This is Sadie, and this is her story.

Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat - Deborah Underwood
Cat tries to trick the Tooth Fairy, but he meets his match in a mischievous mouse.