Picture Books
We can't resist! Though this blog is primarily for chapter books that independent readers would enjoy (or younger kids might like having read to them), we do have some much-loved picture books that we'd love to share. Most of these are a little quirky, with humor and great illustrations that make us want to read them over and over (we only included the name of the author here for simplicity, not the illustrator as well - unless it was a specific version, though more than a few of these books are literally works of art)... many were first discovered in the treasure trove of our local library stacks. This is by no means a complete list!
- Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
- The Complete Adventures of the Mole Sisters by Roslyn Schwartz
- Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! (and Cats, Cats, Cats!) by Leslea Newman
- Old Bear by Jane Hissey
- Beware of the Storybook Wolves by Lauren Child
- Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen
- A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Phillip C. Stead
- Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra
- Starring Miss Darlene by Amy Schwartz
- Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathamann
- The Frog Princess? by Pamela Mann
- Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel (and everything else by him, too!)
- Geraldine, the Music Mouse by Leo Lionni (and more by him as well!)
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- The Barefoot Book of Animal Tales retold by Naomi Adler
- Black is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff
- White Wave - a Chinese Tale by Diane Wolkstein
- Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
- Have You Seen My Potty? by Mary McQuillan
- Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon by Jules Bass and Debbie Harter
- Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
- Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett
- Fox's Dream by Tejima
- Little Raccoon's Big Question by Miriam Schlein
- The Princess Knight by Cornelia Funke
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
- Toot & Puddle (series) by Holly Hobbie
- Fanny by Holly Hobbie
- If I Were a Polar Bear by Rives (pop up)
- Journey by Aaron Becker
- Dahlia by Barbara McClintock
- Crocodile, Crocodile by Peter Nickl & Binette Schroeder
- A Fairy Went A-Marketing by Rose Fyleman/Jamichael Henterly
- Fables by Arnold Lobel
- The Complete Book of Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker (illustrated poems)
- Mother Earth and her Children: a Quilted Fairy Tale by Sibylle Von Olfers, illustrated by Sieglinde Schoen Smith
- The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
- The Contest - an Armenian Folktale by Nonny Hogrogian
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Strega Nona (series) by Tomie de Paola
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- Counting Kisses by Karen Katz
- Emily by Michael Bedard
- The Barefoot Book of Mother & Daughter Tales retold by Josephine Evetts-Secker
- George and the Dragon by Chris Wormell
- The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth
- Mama Loves by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
