Chaconas, Dori

The friendship between Cork, a muskrat, and Fuzz, a possum, is in trouble when Cork decides that since he is older, he has to be taller than Fuzz.

Cruise, Robin

Although her Mexican-American grandmother now forgets many things, Luciana finds that she still remembers the things that are important to the two of them.

Frazee, Marla

Describes how a baby starts to walk and thereby encourages people of all ages to stand up and walk more.

Freymann, Saxton

All types of speedy vehicles, carved from vegetables!

Gershator, Phillis

Colorful illustrations and rhyming text present a celebration of summer from a child's perspective.

Jenkins, Steve

An illustrated introduction to how animals move

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Peggony-Po, carved out of wood by his father, a one-legged whaler, determines to catch the huge whale that ate his father's leg.

Schotter, Roni

Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose.

Wells, Rosemary

Presents three illustrated rhyming stories for very young children that speak of the love between parents and their children.

Winter, Jeanette

A true story about a baby hippo who loses his mother during a tsunami, but finds a new home and a new mother.

DiCamillo, Kate

Edward Tulane, a proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

Guibert, Emmanuel

The Chief Executive Officer of the universe, Supermuscleman, is training all children to obey him. Only the space pirates aboard their ship the Huckleberry can outwit him and his wicked plan.

Gutman, Dan

Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

Kadohata, Cynthia

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.

Langrish, Katherine

When Peer Ulfsson witnesses the disappearance of his neighbor's wife, rumored to be a seal-woman, he must help protect the baby she leaves behind from trolls, a witch, and other creatures.

Lin, Grace

Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese-American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.

Mason, Simon

The further adventures and misadventures of the four members of the Quigley family--Mum, Dad, Lucy, and Will.

Napoli, Donna Jo

When the rest of the ducks turn on her little duckling, Ugly, because he's different, Mother Duck sadly leaves him behind. With the help of some new friends, Ugly makes his way alone.

Roy, Jennifer

From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

Springer, Nancy

Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.

Hopkinson, Deborah.

The stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers are woven together, illuminating the history of cotton in America.

Pinkney, Jerry

A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable features the hen who is forced to do all the work to bake the bread and the animals who learn a bitter lesson from their refusal to help.

Tchana, Katrin

An illustrated collection of traditional tales which feature goddesses from different cultures, including Navajo, Mayan, and Fon.

Jenkins, Steve

Twenty-one endangered species are depicted in this collage-illustrated book which provides facts about the animals' characteristics, habitat, and sometimes what has caused their endangerment.

Butterworth, Christine

Clear, engaging text pairs with intricate engravings to create the fascinating story of the endangered sea horse, one of nature's most mysterious fish.

Romanek, Trudee

This just might be the most interesting book about blood that you might ever find. It's filled with neat facts like, "Only about 60 people in the whole world have the rare K zero blood type."

Sis, Peter

Introduces young children to the child prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in a tribute to the beauty of listening, looking, imagining, and, above all, playing.

Havill, Juanita

Twenty illustrated poems depict a fairy who visits a garden and listens to the stories of the garden vegetables.

McDonough, Yona Zeldis

An illustrated biography of Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish-American to become a celebrity in major league baseball.

McCully, Emily Arnold

An illustrated biography of Margaret E. Knight who invented, among other things, a machine for making paper bags, a foot warmer, and a metal guard to make industrial looms safer.