Recent Booklist Additions

The top entry is the most recent booklist addition.

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

Rome: In Spectacular Cross-Section by Stephen Biesty

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

Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac

Added to: Other Holidays & Feasts

Chirri & Chirra, Under the Sea by Kaya Doi

Added to: Summer

Houses from the Sea by Alice E. Goudey

Added to: Summer

The Hero and the Minotaur by Robert Byrd

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

Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Mark Hearld

Added to: Poetry, Learning with Picture Books

*Audiobook recommendation: The Magician’s Nephew (#1) by C.S. Lewis, narrated by Kenneth Branagh

Added to: Chapter Books

What’s Inside A Flower? by Rachel Ignotofsky

Added to: Spring, Learning with Picture Books

Quiet by Tomie dePaola

Added to: Spring

City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction by David Macaulay

Added to: Ancient History, Learning with Picture Books

Tiny, Perfect Things by M.H. Clark

Added to: 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

Unwrapping the Christmas Crèche by Lisa Flinn

Added to: Christmas

The Story of Christmas by Felix Hoffmann

Added to: Christmas

The Sleeping Beauty by Felix Hoffmann

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

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

Three Aesop Fox Fables by Paul Galdone

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

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

The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

Added to: Ancient History, Learning with Picture Books

Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky

Added to: Illustrated Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables

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

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

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

The Making of a Knight by Patrick O’Brien

Added to: Medieval, Learning with Picture Books

Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life by Julia Rothman

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

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

The Three Bears by Paul Galdone

Added to: 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

Rocks, Fossils and Arrowheads by Laura Evert

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

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

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

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

I Took a Walk by Henry Cole

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Spring

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

The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland’s Good Fortune by P.J. Lynch

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Thanksgiving

Tapenum’s Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times by Kate Waters

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Thanksgiving

Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate Waters

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Thanksgiving

Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Kate Waters

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Thanksgiving

On the Mayflower: Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice and a Passenger Girl by Kate Waters

Added to: Learning with Picture Books, Thanksgiving

Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling

*Audiobook recommendation: Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling, narrated by Terry Bregy

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki

Added to: Learning with Picture Books

The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems by Mary Ann Hoberman

Added to: Poetry

*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, and others in series by Ann McGovern

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

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