The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, with pictures by Axel Scheffler, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, NY 1999 The story of a mouse who avoided becoming a tasty lunch for several larger animals by using his imagination.
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, with pictures by Axel Scheffler, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, NY 1999
The story of a mouse who avoided becoming a tasty lunch for several larger animals by using his imagination.
Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville, Scholastic Inc., New York, NY 1994
When a mysterious person follows her and her grandmother into a church Cara seeks safety by jumping from the roof and into the strange Land of Luster, the world of the unicorns, and there sets out on a quest to prevent the destruction of all unicorns.
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children; A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today's Child selected by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by Arnold Lobel, Random House, New York NY, 1983
The works of many famous, and some not so very famous, poets from Anonymous to Zilpha Keatly Snyder are grouped by category like "The Four Seasons", "Home! Your're Where It's Warm Inside, and "Where Goblins Dwell" .
Nobody Listens to Andrew by Elizabeth Guilfoile, illustrated by Mary Stevens, Follett Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1957
In this easy to read book Andrew saw something VERY important upstairs but everyone was too busy, doing something they thought was more important than listening to him, until he said what was upstairs very loudly.
Building the Book Cathedral by David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 1999
Cathedral: The story of Its Construction was the first of David Macaulay's many books, written about 25 years before this one, which retells the same story with an introductory section explaining what he went through in writing the first one and how his later experience in writing books led him to change certain things in the retelling this time.
Miss Rumphius story and pictures by Barbara Cooney, Viking Press, New York NY, 1982
Great Aunt Alice Rumphius was once a little girl who loved the sea, longed to see faraway places, and wanted to make the world more beautiful. This book is about beauty and the illustrations, painted in acrylics with Prismacolor pencil accents, indicate why Cooley has illustrated more than 100 picture books, including two Caldecott Award winners and this American Book Award winner.
Reader's Digest North American Wildlife: An illustrated Guide to 2,000 Plants and animals edited by Susan J. Wernert, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, NY, 1982
If you want just one book that shows you everything you are likely to see living and wild in North America, mammals, snakes, salamanders, birds, fish, trees, wildflowers, shellfish, snails, and insects this is it. Though it is a bit too thick to put in a pocket as a fieldguide during a hike it will fit in a backpack along with your lunch.
Don't Make Me Laugh by James Stevenson, Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1999
Mr Frimdimpny, the Alligator, is in charge of this book and his first rule is, "Do not laugh!" If you even smile you need to go back to the beginning and start over.
Look-Alikes: Discover a Land Where Things Are Not as They Appear... by Joan Steiner, photography by Thomas Lindley, Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA 1998
Simple verses challenge the readers of this book to identify the 1,000 everyday objects hidden in the 11 elaborate photographed scenes in this book. Each scene has its "hidden" objects in plain view, but you may need to refer to the pages describing each scene in the back to get them all.
Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Cliford, illustrated by George Hughes, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1979
Two girls, Mary Rose and Jo-Beth, are stranded in the snow when their father has to go to find more gasoline for the car, but they find a nearby public library, however once inside they get locked in and the blizzard outside combines with the injured librarian inside to make a very strange adventure for them that night. Do you suppose Estabrook's Ms Hayner chooses this book because she identifies with either the girls or the librarian character?
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