Recent Booklist Additions

The top entry is the most recent booklist addition.


Peekaboo Baby by Camilla Reid, illustrated by Ingela P. Arrhenius

Added to: Board Books


Snowman – Cold = Puddle: Spring Equations by Laura Purdie Salas

Added to: Spring


The Magnificent Book of Treasures: Ancient Rome by Stella Caldwell, illustrated by Eugenia Nobati

Added to: Ancient History, Learning with Picture Books



When Washington Crossed the Delaware by Lynne Cheney, illustrated by Peter M. Fiore

Added to: Learning with Picture Books


Around the Year by Elsa Beskow

Added to: Poetry


An Early American Christmas by Tomie dePaola

Added to: Christmas



Chirri & Chirra, Under the Sea by Kaya Doi

Added to: Summer


Houses from the Sea by Alice E. Goudey

Added to: Summer






Quiet by Tomie dePaola

Added to: Spring, Picture Books for Children




We Have a Baby by Cathryn Falwell

Added to: New Baby


On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott

Added to: New Baby



The Story of Christmas by Felix Hoffmann

Added to: Christmas



The Wolf of Gubbio by Michael Bedard

Added to: Books for Young Catholics (coming soon!)


Saint Bernadette and the Miracle of Lourdes by Demi

Added to: Books for Young Catholics (coming soon!)


Building Our House by Jonathan Bean

Added to: Learning with Picture Books



Christina’s Carol by Tomie dePaola

Added to: Christmas


The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (adaptation), illustrated by Florence Graham

*I am still partial to the original text, but here is a faithful adaptation.

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables, Picture Books for Children, Spring






America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates, illustrated by Wendell Minor

Added to: Other Holidays & Feasts


How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan, illustrated by Loretta Krupinski

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Spring



Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale, illustrated by Tomie dePaola

Added to: Poetry


The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

Added to: Chapter Books


Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodges

Added to: Chapter Books


A Big Treasury of Little Animals by Phoebe Dunn

Added to: Spring


Down Comes the Rain by Franklyn M. Branley

Added to: Learning with Picture Books


Abuela by Arthur Dorros

Added to: Picture Books for Children


Henner’s Lydia by Marguerite de Angeli

Added to: Picture Books for Children




Pegasus by Marianna Mayer, illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft

Added to: Ancient History, Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables


Cupid and Psyche by M. Charlotte Craft, illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft

Added to: Ancient History, Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables



Flicka, Ricka, Dicka Bake a Cake by Maj Lindman

Added to: Early Readers (coming soon!)


George Washington: A Picture Book Biography by James Cross Giblin, illustrated by Michael Dooling

Added to: Learning with Picture Books



The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz

Added to: Picture Books for Children


The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren

Added to: Winter


A Beetle is Shy by Dianna Hutts Aston

Added to: Learning with Picture Books


Christmas for 10 by Cathryn Falwell

Added to: Christmas


The Christmas Story by Metropolitan Museum of Art

Added to: Christmas



A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, illustrated by P.J. Lynch

Added to: Christmas, Chapter Books


Christmas in the Stable by Astrid Lindgren

Added to: Christmas


A Christmas Like Helen’s by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

Added to: Christmas


The Nativity: Six Glorious Pop-Up Scenes by Francesca Crespi

Added to: Christmas


Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Added to: Chapter Books


Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman

Added to: Winter



Cowboys by Marie and Douglas Gorsline

Added to: Learning with Picture Books


Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh

Added to: Autumn, Learning with Picture Books


Through Grandpa’s Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan

Added to: Picture Books for Children


What Makes a Bird a Bird? by May Garelick, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

Added to: Learning with Picture Books


The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables


An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by Holly Johnson

Added to: Thanksgiving










*Selections from The Children’s Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett, illustrated by Michael Hague

Added to: Picture Books for Children


If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern, and others in series

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Thanksgiving


Happy Little Family by Rebecca Caudill, also Schoolhouse in the Woods, Up and Down the River, and Schoolroom in the Parlor (Fairchild Family Series)

Added to: Chapter Books


Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Added to: Chapter Books


Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell

Added to: Learning with Picture Books


Apple Picking Time by Michele Benoit Slawson

Added to: Autumn


The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley, also More Milly-Molly-Mandy

Added to: Chapter Books


Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

My First Counting Book by Lilian Moore

Added to: Picture Books for Toddlers, Learning with Picture Books

What’s Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

Over in the Meadow by John Langstaff, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Spring

Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary by Jack Knowlton

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

The Snow Queen adapted by Naomi Lewis, illustrated by Angela Barrett

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

James Herriot’s Treasury for Children by James Herriot

*Audiobook recommendation: James Herriot’s Treasury for Children by James Herriot, narrated by Jim Dale

Added to: Picture Books for Children, Spring

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

Added to: Picture Books for Children, Picture Books for Toddlers

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths by Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables, Chapter Books

Frog Went A-Courtinby John Langstaff, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky

Added to: Picture Books for Children

Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin by Lloyd Moss

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson

Added to: Poetry

Yonder by Tony Johnston, illustrated by Lloyd Bloom

Added to: Picture Books for Children

Rose Red and Snow White by Ruth Sanderson

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

Fall Leaves by Loretta Holland

Added to: Autumn

Going to TownWinter Days in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and others in “My First Little House Books” series

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

More Milly-Molly-Mandy by Joyce Lankester Brisley

Added to: Chapter Books

Castle by David Macaulay

Added to: Medieval, Learning with Picture Books

The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry by Danna Smith, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline

Added to: Medieval, Learning with Picture Books

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Added to: Medieval, Chapter Books

The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader

Added to: Winter, Learning with Picture Books

The Christmas Story illustrated by Gennady Spirin

Added to: Christmas

Wynken, Blynken, & Nod by Eugene Field, illustrated by Johanna Westerman

Added to: Poetry, Picture Books for Children

Beauty and the Beast by Marianna Mayer, illustrated by Mercer Mayer

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

A Picnic with Monet, and others in the “Mini Masters” series by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober

Added to: Picture Books for Toddlers, Learning with Picture Books

Spring Thaw by Steven Schnur

Added to: Spring

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice and Martin Provensen

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Vehicles

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

Added to: Autumn

All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan

Added to: Picture Books for Children

Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews, illustrated by Ian Wallace

Added to: Picture Books for Children

Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Added to: Picture Books for Toddlers

Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Poetry and Color by Mary O’Neill

Added to: Poetry

Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris

Added to: Poetry

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

*Be aware that in this edition (illustrated by Roberto Innocenti) one image is not suitable for young children.

Added to: Chapter Books

Miss Suzy by Miriam Young

Added to: Autumn

Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by Susan Jeffers

Added to: Poetry

Children of the Forest by Elsa Beskow

Added to: Picture Books for Children

Pelle’s New Suit by Elsa Beskow

Added to: Picture Books for ChildrenPicture Books for ToddlersSpring

Little Red Cap by Lisbeth Zwerger

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

Sleeping Beauty by Kinuko Y. Craft

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Ritva Voutila

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

Katie and the Impressionists by James Mayhew

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

Locomotive by Brian Floca

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Vehicles

A Song for Lena by Hilary Horder Hippely

Added to: Picture Books for Children, Autumn

The White Cat by Robert D. San Souci, illustrated by Gennady Spirin

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

Crinkleroot’s Nature Almanac by Jim Arnosky

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston, also A Butterfly is PatientA Nest is Noisy, and A Seed is Sleepy

Added to: SpringLearning with Picture Books