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Sarah's Favorites
January 2025 |
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Picture Books and Beginning Readers
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The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
A half-century tribute edition of the 1963 Caldecott Medal winner follows the simple tale of a young boy who, upon waking, discovers that snow has fallen and ventures out in his red snowsuit to experiment with making footprints, creating snow angels and trying to preserve a snowball.
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One-osaurus, Two-osaurus
by Kim Norman
Look there, in a child's bedroom, where some prehistoric pals are gathered in a counting game. Nine dinosaurs are playing a sing-song rendition of hide-and-seek - but something isn't adding up. Where is number ten? Stomp, stomp, stomp! CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP! Ready or not, here he comes, and he sounds ... big! With big, bold numerals, an array of dinosaurs in comical poses, and a humorous twist at the end, this tribute to a child's imagination makes learning numbers a gigantic treat.
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Don't Forget Dexter
by Lindsay Ward
Accidentally left behind at the doctor's office, panicked stuffed dinosaur Dexter T. Rexter looks for his friend, sings their special song very loudly, and begins to fear that he has been abandoned and replaced by a toy, a dilemma that compels him to ask the reader for advice.
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Tuesday
by David Wiesner
This 1992 Caldecott Medal-winning book is celebrating 20 years in print and being presented anew in an edition that capitalizes on the remarkable advances that have been made in the technology of color reproduction, making it even more faithful to the palette and texture of the acclaimed author/illustrator's watercolor paintings that offer a whimsical, hilarious look at the events that unfold on a particular Tuesday, on which outlandish things begin to happen.
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A Chair for My Mother
by Vera B. Williams
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. A Caldecott Honor Book & ALA Notable Book.
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Nate the Great Goes Undercover
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
A junior detective and his dog try to nab the creature that has been raiding a neighbor's garbage can.
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Juvenile Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Holy Twins
by Kathleen Norris
Offers the tale about two amazing twins, Benedict and Scholastica, and their experiences as children in northern Italy that influenced their great accomplishments in their adult lives.
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Fairy Houses and Beyond
by Barry Kane
Presents a collection of photographs that depict fairy houses, tiny homes inspired by the authors' book about a girl who builds a miniature house in the woods, and sheds light on the daily lives of their imagined inhabitants.
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Make It Glow
by Anna Claybourne
Presents simple experiments, with step-by-step, illustrated instructions, for studying the science of light, including how rainbows are made and how light can change directions.
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A Drop of Water
by Walter Wick
Filled with stop-action and close-up photography, an early scientific book features such images as a single snowflake and a falling drop of water, accompanied by introductions to such concepts as evaporation and condensation.
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Mysterious Glowing Mammals
by Parrott-Ryan, Maria
"One night a scientist discovered something surprising in his own backyard: a flying squirrel that glowed bright pink! Follow along on an investigation into flying squirrels -- and other mammals -- that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light.
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Women Artists A to Z
by Melanie LaBarge
An empowering alphabet book celebrates famous and less-represented women artists in a variety of genres who have transformed the art world, from Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Xenobia Bailey.
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My People
by Langston Hughes
The inspirational words of this celebrated writer's poem are brought to life through a collection of brilliant sepia-colored photographs throughout capturing the diverse features, hearts, and souls of its subjects.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein
A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.
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Freedom River
by Doreen Rappaport
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
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The House with a Clock in its Walls
by John Bellairs
A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.
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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers a disabled cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Aru Shah and the End of Time
by Roshani Chokshi
Telling fibs in order to fit in better with her wealthier peers, 12-year-old Aru Shah spends her school break at the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, where her decision to light a cursed lamp unwittingly releases an ancient demon. By the author of The Star-Touched Queen.
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Wait Till Helen Comes
by Mary Downing Hahn
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
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The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
by Carolyn Keene
Though warned to stay away, Nancy travels to Scotland to visit her great-grandmother and solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom.
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Skulduggery Pleasant
by Derek Landy
When a not-so-innocent twelve-year-old girl named Stephanie inherits her eccentric uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from an ancient evil.
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Astronauts
by Jim Ottaviani
A nonfiction graphic novel collection of portraits celebrating the lives and achievements of history's female astronauts includes coverage of first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova, the diverse trailblazers of Group 9 and NASA's investigations into how to make space travel possible for everyone.
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Nightlights
by Lorena Alvarez
When a mysterious girl appears at school and learns of Sandy's drawings, that she creates from the tiny stars that appear in her room at night, Morfie's fascination soon turns into something sinister.
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