Lists and Suggestions for Kids

A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air

Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

Also available in Overdrive. "The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--

Also available in Overdrive. "Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--

Also available in Overdrive. When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.

Also available in Hoopla. An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.

A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

Also available in Overdrive. Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.

Also available in Overdrive. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

Also available in Hoopla. The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

Also available in RB Digital. Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.

Also available in Hoopla. When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

Also available in Hoopla. A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Also available in Hoopla. A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.

A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

Also available in Overdrive. The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches.

When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

Also available in Hoopla. Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.