Picture Books and Early Chapters
September 2025
Animal ABC
by Jannie Ho

This alphabet book for babies and toddlers features lots of familiar animals, providing hours of first-word fun. Learn the ABCs with bright pictures and a wide variety of friendly creature faces. From alligator to zebra, young readers will be captivated by Jannie Ho's bold use of color in her appealing animals.
Sparrow
by Mary Tebo

One day, Sparrow wakes up feeling different. Her world is on the brink of change and she knows that she must prepare. As she flies from one familiar corner of her life to the other-from the fruit stand to the top of the belltower-she searches far and wide for the thing that will help her embrace whatever tomorrow may bring. Here is a soul-stirring picture book about change and how to embrace it with the help of hope-as demonstrated by a sweet sparrow embarking on the great journey of life.
Five little friends : a collection of finger rhymes
by Sean Taylor

What better way to get little ones excited about poems than to make them part of the delivery? In the hallowed tradition of nursery rhymes and songs like "Itsy Bitsy Spider," this imaginative collection entices children to use their fingers, hands, and sometimes whole bodies to bring a variety of verses to life. 
The escape artist / : A True Story of Octopus Adventure
by Thor Hanson

The true story of Inky the octopus, who slipped out of his tank at the National Aquarium in New Zealand and into the world's imagination.
I, rock : a geology tale
by Katie Slivensky

Rock tells his sensational, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, geological tale to a group of eager students.
Elvis & Romeo go to dog school
by David Soman

Elvis and Romeo are at their first day of dog school! Romeo already knows how to chase. Elvis already knows how to stay and sit. They both still have a lot to learn, but they will do it together!
Sports superstars
by Eric Zweig

Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about sports legends with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress.
Sea otter sunrise
by Mary Pope Osborne

It's bright and early when the magic tree house spins Jack and Annie to Monterey Bay, California. It's their mission to collect sea urchins in the underwater kelp forests! But they know nothing about collecting sea urchins--can a grouchy boat captain help them? Maybe. But Jack and Annie have another problem when Annie finds a badly injured sea otter. They're not supposed to help the otter. . . but it's the right thing to do. Can they convince the grouchy boat captain to help them?
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