KDL Recommends

E BLISS

Although he is a dog, Bailey goes to school where his canine abilities enliven an ordinary day.

ER BUNTING

Frog and his friends are alarmed by a strange object that appears on his pond, share a thoughtful—if scratchy—gift, and meet a hippopotamus that has run away from the zoo.

E CARLE

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.

E DEWDNEY

Llama Llama’s mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.

E HENKES

As he hops along a little rabbit wonders what it would be like to be green as grass, tall as fir trees, hard as rocks, and flutter like butterflies.

CONCEPT E INTRIAGO

Pairs of circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day.

E KLASSEN

A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.

E LAMINACK

When life on the Tucker farm is disrupted by the arrival of a peacock, whose shrieking and strutting bring many welcome visitors, the hens complain that they are doing all of the work until the hound suggests a trade.

TALES NURSERY J398.8 POC

An illustrated collection of sixty-four traditional nursery rhymes.

E MCDONNELL

Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.

CALDECOTT E RASCHKA

A wordless picture book about all the fun a dog can have with her ball.

E RINKER

At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.

E SEGAL

A young pig tries to avoid taking a bath by claiming to be a variety of characters, from an astronaut to an Eskimo, as his mother tries to lure him into the tub.

E SHEA

Poses rhyming questions about what grows and what does not.

E SIDMAN

Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear.

E TILLMAN

Even though Tumford the cat is well loved by George and Violet Stoutt, they despair of ever teaching him to apologize when he does something wrong.

E TULLET

Instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to create imaginative images.

ER WILLEMS

Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.