You Are (Not) Small Anna Kang illustrated by Christopher Weyant 5 Stars Two types of bear-like creatures encounter each other in a grassy area. One bear says the other is small. Then the small one says the other is big. Then comes a grand argument where they both declare that they are not “small” or…
Cats Are Cats Valeri Gorbachev 4.5 Stars “Miss Bell loved cats.” So she went to the pet store and bought a cat. Of course the cat grew and grew and grew. Young readers will love the fact that they know the secret that the cat isn’t really an ordinary cat. It is a tiger. And…
Rex Wrecks It! Ben Clanton 4 Stars Gizmo, Sprinkles, and Wild like to build things with blocks. But Rex likes wrecking the things that they have built. Of course there is a lot of building and a lot of wrecking. But in the end each of the different characters learn what it might take to…
Train! Judi Abbot 4 Stars Little Elephant loves trains. So much that his parents decide to take Little Elephant on a trip to ride a real train. There Little Elephant meets some new friends. But they don’t love trains the same way that he does. Soon there are toddler-sized arguments about what modes of transportation…
Little Elliot Big City Mike Curato 3 Stars Elliot is a little elephant that lives in a big city. He likes the city. But sometimes being little in a big city is hard. Others don’t notice him. And worst of all, he is too small to be able to buy cupcakes at the cupcake store.…
A Library Book for Bear Bonny Becker illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton 4 Stars This is a beautiful book (no, really just take a look at the endpages…they look like bookshelves…and how beautiful is that?!?) about Bear who doesn’t want to go to the library with Mouse. But Bear had promised Mouse that they would…
Dojo Daycare Chris Tougas 4 stars With end pages that say “Hi-ya!” this book is as cool as the little ninjas who will enjoy reading this story. Basically ninja moms and ninja dads drop down on ropes to silently take their ninja kids to the Dojo Daycare while they go to ninja work and do…
The Ghosts Go Haunting Helen Ketteman pictures by Adam Record 3.5 Stars This book is a fun Halloween book which can be sung to the tune of “The Ants Go Marching One By One.” Although, the version of that song that I know has a few differences from the text of this book. Which could…
Wazdot? Michael Slack 4 Stars Blip is an alien on an alien class field trip. They all have their scanners (Blip’s is named “Zot”) that will tell the aliens what things are. Blip gets tired of staying with his class…especially when he sees a nice planet Earth that looks like there would be loads of…
My New Friend Is So Fun! Mo Willems 3.5 Stars Elephant and Snake are talking to each other. Their best friends Piggie and Brian Bat just met for the first time and they are playing. At first Elephant and Snake aren’t worried. But then they start to wonder if their best friends will become best…