Lauren Castillo
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a Caldecott Honor-winning artist comes a cozy classic-in-the-making about finding your friends and sticking together through thick and thin.
"Our Friend Hedgehog feels like a modern-day Winnie the Pooh. It's so warm and full of joy and love. It's got classic written all over it." —Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl
Sometimes you make a friend,
and...
"Our Friend Hedgehog feels like a modern-day Winnie the Pooh. It's so warm and full of joy and love. It's got classic written all over it." —Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl
Sometimes you make a friend,
and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When they move to a new city, a shy young girl finds making friends overwhelming until she meets Millie, a rescue dog who helps her overcome her anxiety and shows her that saying hello to new people - and maybe making a friend - isn't so scary."--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A children's literacy advocate presents a story in which readers from everywhere pore over books, each with their own questions, ideas to explore, hopes for the future, and imaginations ready to spark, showing the many ways books can foster connection and empower children."--
9) Twenty yawns
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?
11) Imagine
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this place in life."--Jacket.
12) Yard sale
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Callie and her family are moving from their house to an apartment, so they're having a yard sale. It can be hard to let things go, but in the end, it's who you have - not what you have - that counts.
13) City cat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An easy-to-read book about a globe-trotting cat that crosses paths with a vacationing family in the great cities of Europe. Includes facts about the cities.
15) The troublemaker
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After playing a trick on his sister by stealing her toy rabbit, a mischievous little boy wonders who the new troublemaker is when his toy raccoon disappears.
16) Big Cat Pepper
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Big Cat Pepper has always been part of the family, but after he grows very old and dies, the boy who loves him comes to understand his mother's reassurance that "his spirit is forever and can fly, fly, fly."
Author
Publisher
Corimbo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.
"En este mágico libro de imágenes, un niño va a pasar una noche con su abuela en su nuevo piso de la ciudad. Piensa que la ciudad no es un buen sitio para ella. Se asusta al ver que está llena de ruidos y de gente, y de cosas que dan...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When young Elwyn White lay in bed as a sickly child, a bold house mouse befriended him. When the time came for kindergarten, an anxious Elwyn longed for the farm, where animal friends awaited him at the end of each day. Propelled by his fascination with the outside world, he began to jot down his reflections in a journal. Writing filled him with joy, and words became his world. Today, Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web are beloved classics of children's...