Showing posts with label Toy Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toy Books. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Picture Books

Seasonal Books:
Otter Loves Halloween! - Sam Garton
Halloween is Otter's favorite holiday. It's also a very busy time for her and Teddy. With so much to do, it's a good thing she's a Halloween expert!
 
From Apple Tree to Cider, Please! - Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
"Grab the wagon, it's a bright autumn day and the trees are full of ripe, red apples! There's an apple festival underway at the farm and lots of work to do making cider. This visit finishes with a cider doughnut and a cup of freshly pressed cider. DELICIOUS! Told in crisp, action-driven rhymes from a young child's point of view, From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! is a realistic account of how apple cider is pressed, flavored with the charm and vigor of a harvest celebration.-- Provided by the publisher
 
Picture Books:
Rory the Dinosaur: Me and My Dad - Liz Climo
Rory lives with his father on an island and one day, when his father needs some quiet time, Rory decides to go on an adventure by himself for the first time, unaware that his father's following behind to help.

If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! - Elise Parsley
A child provides insights, based on personal experience, into everything that can go wrong if one brings an alligator to school for show-and-tell.

Board Book:
Red Light, Green Light - Yumi Heo
This board book features 10 lift-the flap traffic signs.

Monday, April 1, 2013

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.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

New Pop-Up and Toy Books

Spin - Ido Vaginsky
Presents a series of animals, in a text which contains a pop-up illustration, pull-tabs, and a spinning wheel on each page which can be turned to change the initial image of each animal into that of a different animal.

Guess How Much I Love: The Pop-Up Edition - Sam McBratney
During a bedtime game, every time Little Nutbrown Hare demonstrates how much he loves his father, Big Nutbrown Hare gently shows him that the love is returned even more. Includes pop-up illustrations.

Wake Up, Sloth! - Anouck Boisrobert
In a lush, green forest, a sloth sleeps. Turn the pages of his story--told in a stunning pop-up display--to witness the tragic process of deforestation and watch as a single seed brings new life.

Feel the Force! Science in Pop-up Bite-Sized Bits - Tom Adams
Readers will explore how things move, friction, gravity, light, sound, magnetism, and electricity, among other key areas of physics. Packed with hands-on paper novelties and a range of simple experiments, this is the perfect book to make science fascinating and fun.

Dragons: Legends and Lore of Dinosaurs - Bodie Hodge
Explores the biblical and cultural history of dragons and argues that these fantastic beings are connected to the last living dinosaurs.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book - Roald Dahl
An adaptation of Roald Dahl's story of Charlie Bucket, a young boy who finds a golden ticket that leads him to the most wonderful place in the world--Willie Wonka's chocolate factory, with pop-up illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Pop-Up and Toy Books

Chanukkah Bugs: A Pop-up Celebration - David A. Carter
Pop-ups, flaps, and pull tabs illustrate events at a Chanukah celebration.

Color Train, Color Train! - Martin Kelly
A train takes shape on printed ribbons in the center of the book as pages are turned.

Alice in Pop-up Wonderland - J.otto Seibold
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

New Picture Books

Let's Do Nothing! - Tony Fucile
Frankie and Sal have run out of things to do: "We've played every sport ever invented" and "baked enough cookies to feed a small country--" Then Sal hits upon a solution: "Let's do nothing!" How hard could that be?


Stick Man - Julia Donaldson
Stick Man ends up far away from his family tree when he is fetched by a dog, thrown by a child, used as a snowman's arm, and even put on a fire, but finally Santa Claus steps in to make sure that Stick Man and his family have a joyous Christmas.

Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types - Sharon Werner
Animals of all types show what they're made of - from A to Z.

The Gingerbread Pirates - Kristin Kladstrup
When Jim's gingerbread pirate, Captain Cookie, comes alive, the tasty treat prepares to battle Santa Claus, who likes to eat cookies on Christmas Eve.

Looking Like Me - Walter Dean Myers
Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.

Dog Biscuit - Helen Cooper
A little girl eats a dog biscuit by mistake and worries about the consequences. Includes recipe for "human-being treats."

Monday, November 30, 2009

New Children's Books

Peep: A Little Book about Taking a Leap - Maria van Lieshout
Peep is afraid of jumping off the curb, but with a little encouragement from his mother and sisters, he finally gives it a try.

Snow White: A Three-Dimensional Fairy-Tale Theater - Jane Ray
Retells, in six dioramas with accompanying text, the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.

Princess Hyacinth: the Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated - Florence Parry Heide
Princess Hyacinth is bored and unhappy sitting in her palace every day because, unless she is weighed down by specially-made clothes, she will float away, but her days are made brighter when kite-flying Boy stops to say hello.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

New Children's Books

Waddle! - Rufus Butler Seder
Text asks if the reader can move like a variety of animals. Striped acetate overlays on board pages give illustrations the illusion of movement.

A Pop-Up Book of Nursery Rhymes - Matthew Reinhart
Matthew Reinhart adapts Mother Goose's nursery rhymes, as the characters spring to life as intricate pop-up surprises.



Otis - Loren Long
When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.

Robot Zot - Jon Scieszka
On a mission to conquer planet Earth, tiny but fearless Robot Zot and his mechanical sidekick leave a path of destruction as they battle kitchen appliances.

The Lion and the Mouse - Jerry Pinkney
In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry - Cindy Neuschwander
When the Zills family is summoned to Egypt to help find the hidden burial site of an ancient pharaoh, Matt and Bibi are locked into an adventure they did not expect. Stuck inside a pyramid with only each other, their dog Riley, and geometric hieroglyphics to help them find their way, the twins must use their math knowledge to solve the riddles on the walls and locate the burial chamber. Luckily, the two know their stuff when it comes to geometric solids.