Mrs. Marlowe's mice
by Frank Asch

Breaking the rules of Cat City, widow Mrs. Eleanor Marlowe decides to hide an extended family of mice in her apartment and keep it a secret from all her fellow cat friends, yet when the officers of the Department of Catland Security come knocking at her door, Mrs. Marlowe has to think fast on her paws in order to keep her special guests safe.

14 cows for America
by Carmen Agra Deedy

Maasai tribal members, after hearing the story of the September 11 attacks from a young Maasai, who was in New York on that day, decide to present the American people with 14 sacred cows as a healing gift.

One grain of rice : a mathematical folktale
by Demi

A rajah who believes himself to be wise and fair uses his hungry people's rice for himself year after year, until a village girl named Rani devises a clever plan using the surprising power of doubling to win a billion grains of rice from the rajah. Tour.

Pippo the Fool
by Tracey E. Fern

In fifteenth-century Florence, Italy, a contest is held to design a magnificent dome for the town's cathedral, but when Pippo the Fool claims he will win the contest, everyone laughs at him. Based on a true story

The giant seed
by Arthur Geisert

When a volcano destroys their home, the intrepid pigs from Ice escape by climbing onto a recently planted seed that has grown to immense proportions, in a wordless story featuring the New York Times Best Illustrated Award-winning artist's signature etchings.

The rabbit problem
by Emily Gravett

In Fibonacci's Field, Lonely and Chalk Rabbit meet, snuggle together and then spend a year trying to cope with their ever-increasing brood and the seasonal changes that bring a new challenge each month. Presented in calendar format with one pop-up illustration and other special features.

The people could fly : the picture book
by Virginia Hamilton

Through the words of the storyteller and their own imagination, a group of slaves dreams that they have the ability to fly back to their native land where a life of freedom and dignity await them amidst the people they know and love.

The chicken-chasing queen of Lamar County
by Janice N. Harrington

A young girl tries to catch her favorite chicken on her grandmother's farm, until she learns something about the hen that makes her change her ways and she discovers that sometimes it is just as satisfying not to catch chickens as it is to catch them.

The gum chewing rattler
by Joe Hayes

A tall tale of a boy whose chewing gum habit saves him from a rattlesnake's bite

Swamp Angel
by Anne Isaacs

Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee. Caldecott Honor Book. Reprint.

Dinosaur Bob and his adventures with the family Lazardo
by William Joyce

While on safari in Africa, the Lazardos adopt a dinosaur, whom they name Bob because of his resemblance to their Uncle Bob, and bring him home with them to Pimlico Hills, in an edition that features seven new illustrations. Original.

The odious Ogre
by Norton Juster

The award-winning creators of The Phantom Tollbooth present the story of an enormous, insatiable and short-tempered Ogre, who terrorizes the countryside and dines on hapless townspeople before encountering a friendly young lady who uses innovative methods to stop him. 20,000 first printing.

Bubba the cowboy prince : a fractured Texas tale
by Helen Ketteman

Bubba is bossed around the family ranch by his wicked stepdaddy and mean, nasty stepbrothers, until Miz Lurleen, the "purtiest" rancher in Texas, rescues him and makes him her cowboy prince, in a westernized version of the Cinderella story.

She's wearing a dead bird on her head!
by Kathryn Lasky

After watching women go from having bird feathers in their hats to wearing whole dead birds, the Massachusetts Audubon Society is founded in 1896 in order to take a stand against what they consider an incredibly appalling practice. Reprint.

The ugly vegetables
by Grace Lin

A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe

Auntie Yang's great soybean picnic
by Ginnie Lo

"A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans-a favorite Chinese food-growing in Illinois, leading her family to a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event. Includes author's note and glossary"--Provided by publisher

The Opposite
by Tom MacRae

Nate wakes up one morning to find The Opposite standing on his bedroom ceiling, and it causes him trouble at home and at school, changing what Nate wants to do into its opposite, until Nate finds a way to outwit it.

Precious and the Boo Hag
by Pat McKissack

Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, young Precious faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.

The Big Bad Wolf and me
by Delphine Perret

When the Big Bad Wolf is mistaken for a dog because he is so wimpy, a little boy takes pity on him and brings him home to teach him to be scary again.

Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney

A picture book celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing Civil Rights Movement.

In our mothers' house
by Patricia Polacco

Three adopted children experience the joys and challenges of being raised in a home with two mothers, who teach the children that different doesn't mean wrong.

Before, after
by Anne-Margot Ramstein

Presents detailed, sometimes surprising pairs of sequential illustrations that show what came before, and what came after

Math curse
by Jon Scieszka

When a girl comes down with a case of math mania, she finds that she tabulates her teeth, counts her morning corn flakes, and displays other disturbing symptoms of the dreaded math curse. BOMC Main.

The three golden keys
by Peter Sís

In an autobiographical fable that echoes the author's exile from his native Czechoslovakia, a man returns to his childhood home in Prague only to find his old home barred with three locks and must find the golden keys that will let him in.

Rules of summer
by Shaun Tan

The award-winning creator of The Arrival presents the story of a long-suffering kid whose older brother makes up arbitrary rules throughout a fantastical summer before saving him from the darkness of a sudden winter.

The lost thing
by Shaun Tan

While looking for bottle caps on the beach, a young boy stumbles upon a lost "thing," and tries to find out who it belongs to

Detective LaRue : letters from the investigation
by Mark Teague

Obedience school dropout-turned-detective, Ike LaRue stands accused for a crime he did not commit involving missing cats and must race against time to prove his innocence--with hilarious results!

Many moons;
by James Thurber

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's one wish

The misadventures of Sweetie Pie
by Chris Van Allsburg

Gazing longingly at the frolicking squirrels outdoors, a long-suffering hamster escapes the confines of a caged life to seek freedom and adventure in the wild. By the two-time Caldecott Medal-winning author of The Polar Express. 50,000 first printing.

Mr. Wuffles!
by David Wiesner

Mr. Wuffles ignores all his cat toys but one, which turns out to be a spaceship piloted by small green aliens, and when Mr. Wuffles plays a little too roughly with the toy ship, the aliens must venture into the cat's territory to make emergency repairs. By the three-time Caldecott Medal-winning author/illustrator of Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002) and Flotsam (2007).

Wait! No paint!
by Bruce Whatley

Filled with jokes and surprises, youngsters will delight in this zany retelling of the classic folktale that details the predicament of three little pigs, who long to flee the chaos of living with seventy-three pigs and build their own dream homes. Reprint.