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Check back monthly for new picks. Enjoy! - Children's Staff
Staff Favorites
Picture Book
A cute little board book about the colors of the Pride Flag and what they represent: Life, Healing, Sunlight, Nature, Peace/Harmony, and Spirit.
View in our catalog View with OverdrivePride Colors
Celebrate Pride Day while learning your ABC's. This book is filled with colorful, detailed pictures of all types of people.
View in our catalog View with Hoopla View with OverdrivePride Puppy
It's time for bed and Froggy has to get ready? Will he ever fall asleep?
View in our catalogFroggy Goes to Bed
Can you convince the stubborn Pigeon to take his bath? He's looking pretty dirty. Even the flies are telling him to take a bath!
View in our catalogThe Pigeon Needs a Bath
Fascinating comparisons of children's creative playtime structures to several prominent architectural buildings worldwide. Complete with information about the buildings and the architects who designed them.
View in our catalogDreaming Up
Rich illustrations complement this story about a boy's fascination the moon. After years of hard work and determination, that boy, Neil Armstrong, was the first person to walk on the moon.
View in our catalog View with HooplaA Kite for Moon
It's the end of summer, which means Pearl and her robot, Pascal, have one last chance to make the perfect sandcastle. They use basic codiing concepts to break down their sandcastle design into manageable steps. This is a fun intro to codinig that will have kids ready for the beach!
View in our catalogHow to Code a Sandcastle
I love books that broach the topic of emotions creatively. This story explores grief through the lens of a fly that gets sucked into a vacuum cleaner, with the hopes that he'll make it through this ordeal. This book is both funny and suspenseful!
View in our catalogBug in a Vacuum
Just adorable! Can Twig, the walking stick, make friends when it is hard to see her?
View in our catalogTwig
I like this picture book because it takes the famiiar song a step further by including verses on some less commonly talked about body parts: gums, hips, wrists and shins, just to name a few.
View in our catalogHead & Shoulders
Tomie De Paola contributes his beautiful and charming illustrations to a deceptively simple picture book. Filled with rhyming words, this title will help children hear and play with the smaller sounds in words - a step on the road to early literacy!
View in our catalogWings
Chapter Book
Middle grade readers may be swept away with this adventure of surviving a plane crash in the Amazon. Although the children are afraid, they find the courage it takes to live. They learn to cooperate and appreciate the wonders of the jungle.
View in our catalog View with OverdriveExplorer
Beautiful, simple illustrations add to the charm of a child's perspective of what could be over the ocean. This would be a good book for children ages 3-6 and their caregivers.
View in our catalog View with Hoopla View with OverdriveOvere the Ocean
A fantastic early chaper book with lots of animal facts, a story and some puzzles. This book is part of a series tha tdoesn't need to be read in order.
View in our catalog View with OverdriveZoo Camp Puzzle
How slow can you go? Did you know that the sloth is so slow that algae grows on their fur when they swim? This easy reader is full of great pictures and fun facts about the sloth.
View in our catalogSlow, Slow Sloths
This book has beautiful retellings of East and South Asian fairytales, folklore and myths that are not as dissimilar to the stories the Western world grew up hearing. Star-crossed lovers, ghosts, heroes and the dire warnings make for a timeless collection of great stories.
View in our catalog View with Hoopla View with OverdriveA Thousand Beginnings and Endings
This is an experience during WWII that I had never read about it, and it was so good! It's a heartwarming story about three siblings, evacuated from London to live in the countryside, looking for a permanent home -- and a new meaning for family.
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For those who like the I Survived series, here is one from a new series focusing on girls. This one is based on the tragic Indian Ocean Tsunami.
View in our catalog View with HooplaTara and the Towering Wave
This dystopian tale is not for the faint of heart! Devin lives in a future affected by climate change and economic enequities, but these are the least of his worries when he is seemingly saved by the Gabriel H. Penn Home for Childhood - a place that hides vicious secrets.
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One Safe Place
Occurring over a single day on a special blue moon, this novel tells the story of a young girl named Keeper who is searching for her mother - a mermaid. Keeper must confront her beliefs about her mother and magic when she gest washed out to sea aloone in a small boat.
View in our catalogKeeper
Another solid magical tale from Woods! Tattercoates are a bit like the Borrowers, but they live on rooftops. This tale is as enchanting and wise as Wood's The Boy, The Bird and the Coffin Maker.
View in our catalogOtto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things
Non-Fiction
Would you like to learn how to play an instrument? Check out a Ukulele from our library, along with this book, and give it a try! Included in the book is a code for how to play videos.
View in our catalogUkulele
Graphic Novel
Do yourself a favor and learn all about the curious lives of bees in this humorous graphic novel through the eyes of a young bee.
View in our catalogThe Way of the Hive: A Honey Bee's Story