Recommending Picture Books was a joyful part of the job! Picture books of all kinds! This series will include some of the picture books I loved to recommend when I was a children’s librarian–currently I’m sticking to the standard, fictional picture book that most of us think of when we say picture book.
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An American sailor courts a young Japanese woman and each tries, in secret, to learn the other’s way of eating.
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A pony tries to convince his cranky owner to take a ride into town. Find out just why this Yankee was so cranky in this hilarious take on a traditional nonsense song every child learns in school but doesn’t understand.
Harry sits on the porch with Mr. George Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.
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A little yellow bird teaches Rocket the dog how to read by first introducing him to the “wondrous, mighty, gorgeous alphabet.”
Each double page spread is devoted to one fish, showing a particular emotion with its name in lettering that expresses the same feeling. Swim into Happy where the dazzling fish sparkle against the dark background and let the images spark laughter and empathy.
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Horace, Morris, and Dolores are inseparable friends . . . until they’re persuaded to join separate boys- and girls-only clubs. Howe’s spirited, pun-filled text and Walrod’s lively collage art create a gender-bending romp with a message that never overwhelms the sheer fun of the story.
A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
When the Mona Woofa is stolen from the Dogopolis Museum of Art, a mysterious character who calls himself Art Dog tracks down and captures the thieves.
by Rachel Isadora
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A favorite children’s song, “The Green Grass Grew All Around, ” becomes a colorful book filled with African wildlife.
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The wolf loves to eat more than anything in the world and one day he has a terrible craving for chicken stew. He spots a chicken who seems just right, but then he thinks how much more stew there will be if he fattens her up before dining himself. So he goes home and begins to cook all kinds of scrumptious food for the chicken to eat. A big surprise is in store for the wolf when he finally visits Mrs. Chicken to collect his meal.
Keep watching for Part 3!
Thought Provoking Reads 