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New Picture Books
A selection of new children's picture books. Updated every two months. Last update: April 2013.
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  Cover Art: Who's On First? Abbott, Bud
Who's On First?
Abbott and Costello's classic comedy routine, reissued for children, features a bear and a rabbit trying to determine the baseball player covering each base.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Six Little Chicks Alborough, Jez
Six Little Chicks
"Can five little chicks and one little stick stop the fox from taking his pick?"--Page 4 of cover.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: I'm Not Reading! Allen, Jonathan
I'm Not Reading!
Baby Owl reluctantly reads a story to Baby Chick, whose numerous brothers, sisters, cousins, and friends join in and test Baby Owl's patience.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: It's Our Garden : from Seeds to Harvest in a School Garden Ancona, George.
It's Our Garden : from Seeds to Harvest in a School Garden
Presents a portrait of a Santa Fe community garden, revealing how students and other citizens work together to select and grow annual plants, create compost, release butterflies, harvest edibles, and protect garden beds for the winter.
Easy Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: On a Farm Andrews, Alexa
On a Farm
Horses live on a farm. Apples grow on a farm. A tractor drives on a farm. What else might you find on a farm? Read along and look at the photographs to find out!
Easy Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Dirty Gert Arnold, Tedd
Dirty Gert
Little Gert loves to play in the dirt so much that she turns into a tree.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Rain! Ashman, Linda.
Rain!
As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Monsters Love Colors Austin, Mike
Monsters Love Colors
Playful monsters combine their favorite crayons, red, yellow, and blue, to create new colors, including one never before seen.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: The Market Bowl Averbeck, Jim.
The Market Bowl
In this tale from Cameroon, Yoyo has to make amends when she offends Brother Coin, the Great Spirit of the Market, by asking too high a price for her bitterleaf stew. Includes a recipe for a version of bitterleaf stew.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Farther Baker-Smith, Grahame
Farther
Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Soo's Boo Boos : She's Got 10! Balsley, Tilda
Soo's Boo Boos : She's Got 10!
Rhyming text counts Soo's boo boos from one to ten and back again when Mommy fixes each one.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Not Your Typical Dragon Bar-el, Dan.
Not Your Typical Dragon
"When Crispin Blaze turns seven, he's expected to breathe fire like all the other dragons. But instead of fire, he breathes a host of unusual things"--Provided by publisher.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Jemmy Button Barzelay, Alix.
Jemmy Button
Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Nonna's Birthday Surprise Bastianich, Lidia.
Nonna's Birthday Surprise
It's Nonna Mima's birthday, and Nonna Lidia and her grandkids are determined to throw her a surprise feast! While planning the evening's menu, Nonna Lidia shares her memories of growing up on the farm during each season of the year, gardening her own fruits and vegetables, and being surrounded by animals of all kinds. After a trip to the farmers' market, Lidia and the kids prepare a pasta primavera, perfect for a family celebration!--Publisher's description.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: Building Our House Bean, Jonathan
Building Our House
A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: What's in the Garden? Berkes, Marianne Collins
What's in the Garden?
"Guess what vegetable or fruit this is, growing in the garden! Learn more about it, plus how to eat it in a simple recipe"--Provided by publisher.
Easy Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Young Chicken Farmers : Tips for Kids Raising Backyard Chickens Black, Vickie
Young Chicken Farmers : Tips for Kids Raising Backyard Chickens
Would you like to be a young chicken farmer? Believe it or not, you don't have to live on a farm to raise chickens -- chicken farmers live in rural areas, suburbs, and even in inner cities. Caring for chickens can be easy once you learn how to keep them safe, healthy, and happy. This book will teach you how to care for your flock and have fun at the same time.
Easy Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: 12 Days of New York Bolden, Tonya.
12 Days of New York
A class trip to the Big Apple is played out as an urban variation of the "Twelve Days of Christmas."
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: The Frazzle Family Finds a Way Bonwill, Ann
The Frazzle Family Finds a Way
The Frazzle family is very forgetful, even when Aunt Rosemary visits and tries to straighten them out with her system, until Annie finds a simple and effective way to remember.
Easy Picture Book
  Cover Art: I Dare You Not to Yawn Boudreau, Helene
I Dare You Not to Yawn
A comical cautionary tale for bedtime-resistant youngsters which challenges them to avoid yawning, from a dozing dog and a cuddly blanket to endearing baby orangutans who stretch out long arms for a nighttime hug.
Easy Picture Book
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