Written and Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler Inspired by the author’s grandmother’s childhood, growing up during the Great Depression. When Marvel’s father dies from cancer and her mother is left to raise eight children between ages 3 months to 14 years, they are forced to find an abandoned, tumbledown shack in the woods and turn it …
Written by Patricia MacLachlan, Illustrated by Kenard Pak By the time I finished this picture book I was bawling. Patricia McLachlan, author of Sarah, Plain and Tall, has written a story 100 years in the making. In 1819 her grandparents, who had come from Russia and settled in the plains of North Dakota, needed to …
Written by Jonathan Stutzman, Illustrated by Heather Fox Llama finds cake on Monday and eats too much cake. It is his first mistake of the week. Throughout the week, Llama continues to make mistakes. Tuesday he wears his dance pants (which are too tight now from the cake he ate) and the pants rip. The …
Written and Illustrated by Ross Collins Anteater wakes up with a problem. He’s hungry and can’t remember what he eats. He converses with other animals who gives suggestions, but they don’t seem quite right. Anteater remembers by the end of the book what he eats… There is an surprise ending and it it silly to …
Written by Patricia Toht, Illustrated by Jarvis Pick a Pumpkin is the story of finding, bringing home, and carving the pumpkins. The best parts of Pick a Pumpkin are the illustrations. Jarvis, the illustrator, has brought all the colors of fall into one book. The reader sees and feels the season. The rhyming text and …
Written by Caralyn Buehner, Illustrated by Mark Buehner Here is another great book to add to the “Snowmen at” series. This time is it Halloween, and it snowed. The kids in the book decide to build snowmen and dress them up. After the kids have done their trick-or-treating and gone to bed, it is the …
Written by Patricia McCormick, Illustrated by Iacopo Bruno Sergeant Reckless is a true story of little horse who became a hero. This story took place during the Korean War. The Marines in this story were exhausted from hauling heavy ammunition uphill to a powerful new cannon nicknamed the “reckless” rifle. One of the marines had …
Written and Illustrated by Chris Van Dusen If Jack built a school, there would be hover desks and pop-up textbooks, skydiving wind tunnels and a trampoline basketball court in the gym, a robo-chef to serve lunch in the cafeteria, field trips to Mars, and a whole lot more. The inventive boy who described his ideal …
