Best bedtime board books and picture books from Susan Marx whose lovely poem names great read aloud books for kids.
Tag: best picture books
Best Picture Books to Build Vocabulary (ages 2-8)
Favorite picture books to build vocabulary.
Best Picture Books You’ve Never Heard Of
A list of favorite picture books that are not widely known.
Top 5: Maurice Sendak Picture Books
Happy birthday to Maurice Sendak today, beloved author and Caldecott winning illustrator. To celebrate, I thought I would list our Top 5 favorite books of his. What are yours? Please share!
Top 10: Caldecott Winners 2000-2010 & My Caldecott Collection
I am a little dismayed at how few Caldecott books I own so I am posting on the last decade in order to beef up my own collection which I shall purchase myself. So, for my birthday and mother’s day, I am going to ask for this collection of Caldecott books for our library. And all that talk in the New York Times about the diminishing sales of picture books? Well, I’ll help to turn that around! Which books are your favorites?
Predicting Newbery and Caldecott Winners
Ok. So these are not really the list of Caldecott and Newbery candidates for 2011 but School Library Journal Blog’s best guess… but I have feeling that they know what they are talking about. We shall see when the awards come out next year, but I’m betting they got quite a few correct.
Children’s Book Authors Who Never Disappoint
You know how there are authors that your children always wait impatiently for the next new book? And maybe they do a great series which isn’t that much of a stretch. But then there are other authors that either 1) write in a wide range of genres from picture books to easy chapter books to YA fiction and EVERYTHING they write is amazing? Or 2) maybe it’s just that they never jave a dud even though everyone is allowed a dud when they are a prolific author. Or 3) their work is crazy imaginative! How do they DO that?!