Recommended Summer Reads 2014 Picture Books New this year! Willow finds a way by Lana Button (author), Tania Howells (illustrator) Willow is thrilled the whole class -- including her! -- is invited to classmate Kristabelle's fantastic birthday party, until the bossy birthday girl starts crossing guests off the list when they dare cross her. There are many books on bullying, but Willow's story offers a unique look at how to handle the situation as a bystander. Discover the Lana Button’s other book: Willow’s whispers (Title image & summary retrieved March 25, 2014 from TitlePeek) Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen; retold by Brian Alderson; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline A childless woman visits a witch who gives her a barleycorn -- and hidden in its bloom is a tiny girl. For one so small, Thumbelina's life is full of misadventures as she floats through the pages like a wisp on the wind, encountering kind and unkind creatures in succession. But old Mrs. Toad with her "rek-kek-kek" and the alarming Man in Gray cannot crush her spirits, and Thumbelina's gentle concern for a winged soul in need paves the way to her freedom and happiness. Discover other books illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, including: The matchbox diary (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from TitlePeek) The tortoise & the hare by Jerry Pinkney (author & illustrator) This companion to the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse is Jerry Pinkney's most stunning masterpiece yet. Even the slowest tortoise can defeat the quickest hare, and even the proudest hare can learn a timeless lesson from the most humble tortoise: Slow and steady wins the race! Here is a superbly rendered journey from starting line to finish that embodies the bravery, perseverance, and humility we can all find inside ourselves. Discover the Jerry Pinkney’s other books, including: The lion & the mouse (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from the publishers’ website)
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Recommended Summer Reads 2014
Picture Books
New this year!
Willow finds a way by Lana Button (author), Tania Howells (illustrator) Willow is thrilled the whole class -- including her! -- is invited to classmate
Kristabelle's fantastic birthday party, until the bossy birthday girl starts
crossing guests off the list when they dare cross her. There are many books
on bullying, but Willow's story offers a unique look at how to handle the
situation as a bystander.
Discover the Lana Button’s other book: Willow’s whispers (Title image & summary retrieved March 25, 2014 from TitlePeek)
Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen; retold by Brian Alderson; illustrated by Bagram
Ibatoulline
A childless woman visits a witch who gives her a barleycorn -- and hidden in its bloom is a
tiny girl. For one so small, Thumbelina's life is full of misadventures as she floats through
the pages like a wisp on the wind, encountering kind and unkind creatures in succession.
But old Mrs. Toad with her "rek-kek-kek" and the alarming Man in Gray cannot crush her
spirits, and Thumbelina's gentle concern for a winged soul in need paves the way to her
freedom and happiness.
Discover other books illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, including: The matchbox diary (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from TitlePeek)
The tortoise & the hare by Jerry Pinkney (author & illustrator)
This companion to the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse is Jerry
Pinkney's most stunning masterpiece yet. Even the slowest tortoise can defeat the
quickest hare, and even the proudest hare can learn a timeless lesson from the most
humble tortoise: Slow and steady wins the race! Here is a superbly rendered journey
from starting line to finish that embodies the bravery, perseverance, and humility we
can all find inside ourselves.
Discover the Jerry Pinkney’s other books, including: The lion & the mouse (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from the publishers’ website)
Mr. Wuffles! by David Wiesner (author & illustrator) In a near wordless masterpiece that could only have been devised by David Wiesner, a cat named Mr. Wuffles doesn't care about toy mice or toy goldfish. He's much more interested in playing with a little spaceship full of actual aliens-but the ship wasn't designed for this kind of rough treatment. Between motion sickness and damaged equipment, the aliens are in deep trouble. When the space visitors dodge the cat and take shelter behind the radiator to repair
the damage, they make a host of insect friends. The result? A humorous exploration
of cooperation between aliens and insects, and of the universal nature of
communication involving symbols, "cave" paintings, and gestures of friendship.
Discover the David Wiesner other books, including: The three pigs and Flotsam (Title image & summary retrieved March 25, 2014 from the author’s website)
The first drawing by Mordicai Gerstein (author & illustrator)
Imagine you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago.
You would live with your whole family in a cave and see woolly mammoths walk by! You
might even see images of animals hidden in the shapes of clouds and rocks. You would
want to share these pictures with your family, but wouldn't know how. Who would have
made the world's first drawing? Would it have been you?
Discover Mordicai Gerstein’s other books, including: The man who walked between the
towers (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from TitlePeek)
Henri’s scissors by Jeanette Winter (author & illustrator)
Step into the colorful world of Henri Matisse and his magnificent paper cutouts! In a
small weaving town in France, a young boy named Henri-Emile Matisse drew
pictures everywhere, and when he grew up, he moved to Paris and became a
famous artist who created paintings that were adored around the world. But late in
life a serious illness confined him to a wheelchair, and amazingly, it was from there
that he created among his most beloved works-enormous and breathtaking paper
cutouts. Based on the life of Henri Matisse, this moving and inspirational picture book
biography includes a note from the author, dynamic quotes from Matisse himself,
and an illuminating look at a little-known part of a great artist's creative process. (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from TitlePeek)
New this year!
Mr. Tiger goes wild by Peter Brown (author & illustrator) Mr. Tiger lived a perfectly proper life in a perfectly proper city and everything
was perfectly fine . . . until the day he had a wonderfully wild idea! Why choose
to stay in the stuffy city when there is a whole wide world of wilderness and
wildness to explore? So Mr. Tiger bounds off on an adventure to discover where
he really belongs. (Title image & summary retrieved March 25, 2014 from the author’s website)
Picture a tree by Barbara Reid (author & illustrator)
From bare branches tracing the sky to an explosion of colour, a place for adventure or a
friend to shelter us from the sun-a tree can be so many things. With lyrical text and her
signature Plasticine magic, Barbara Reid captures these majestic beings: in every
season, growing and changing, interacting with the people and animals around them.
Discover Barbara Reid’s other books, including: Two by two, The subway mouse, and
The golden goose (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from the author’s website)
Locomotive by Brian Floca (author & illustrator)
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding
America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details
of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that
keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean.
Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race
by. Come ride the rails, come cross the young country!
Discover Brian Floca’s other books, including: Moonshot: the flight of Apollo 11 (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from the publisher’s website)
Brush of the gods by Lenore Look
Who wants to learn calligraphy when your brush is meant for so much more?
Wu Daozi (689-758), known as China’s greatest painter and alive during the
T’ang Dynasty, is the subject of this stunning picture book. When an old monk
attempts to teach young Daozi about the ancient art of calligraphy, his brush
doesn’t want to cooperate. Instead of characters, Daozi’s brush drips dancing
peonies and flying Buddhas! Soon others are admiring his unbelievable
creations on walls around the city, and one day his art comes to life! (Title image & summary retrieved April 4, 2014 from the author’s blog)
Parrots over Puerto Rico by Cindy Trumbore (author), Susan L. Roth (illustrator)
A picture book telling the intertwined histories of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island
of Puerto Rico, culminating with current efforts to save the parrots from extinction.
Puerto Rican parrots, once abundant, came perilously close to extinction in the 1960s
due to centuries of foreign exploration and occupation, development, and habitat
destruction. In this compelling book, Roth and Trumbore recount the efforts of the
scientists of the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program to save the parrots and ensure
their future. Woven into the parrots' story is a brief history of Puerto Rico itself, from
before the first human settlers to the present day. (Title image & summary retrieved March 25, 2014 from TitlePeek)