Generally best enjoyed by children between five and eight years old; but every child is unique, so only you know best.
Published: 2017 Theme: Kindness Best for: 8 and up "The five kids started exchanging ideas for winning over the man on the third floor. Operation Beiderman had officially begun." Each of the five siblings in this story have to dig deep to find out how to be kind to someone they don't know...
Published: 1960 Theme: Imaginative Play Best for: 5 to 7 "There was a sign on Rosie's door. It read, 'If you want to know a secret, knock three times.'" Pure delight is the best description for this classic, and not-well-known children's book by beloved writer and illustrator, Maurice Sendak.
Published: 2012 Theme: Kindness and Friendship Best for: 7 to 9 "The little girl peered out of the carriage and saw two bears lumbering quickly ahead, pulling the carriage through patches of twisting trees and over hills dotted with early blooms." This book weaves the magical and unreality together in a way that you begin to feel you are reading an old-fashioned fairy tale, which in some ways it is.
Published: 1955, republished 1960 Theme: Fairy and Other Tales Best for: 7 to 12 "The Goldfish stopped jumping, because his joy had been damped by doubt. "How can the world be more than I can see?' he asked the Ship. 'If I am really in the world, I ought to be able to see it all...'" Each tale in this children's book is a literary work, complete with sometimes difficult language, almost always a moral, and something to think about...
Published: 2016 Theme: Self-acceptance Best for: Girls 7 - 9 "Did Mom know she hired a witch as a babysitter?" In this second children's book in the Backyard Witch series, we watch a young girl grow into her own qualities, which are different from her mother's expectations.
Published: 1996 Theme: Curiosity Best for: 5 to 8 "Once upon a time there was a bat--a little light brown bat, the color of coffee with cream in it. He looked like a furry mouse with wings." This poetic little fable about animals, and one bat in particular, will be a sweet bedtime story.
Published: 2007 Theme: Love the World Best for : 5 to 8 "The boat docked in Africa, and Jules kissed the ground; the earth so precious, so fragile, so round" A simple, beautifully illustrated children's book, that gently reminds us that all the creatures on earth need our protection and love.
Published: 2000 Theme: Easy Reader Bedtime Best for: 5 to 8 "Once there were three little dragons. They lived in a dark cave. The cave was in a dense forest. The forest was in a faraway kingdom. The poor little dragons were very lonely in their deep dark cave." A must-have, read-aloud bedtime story that's perfect for every child...
Published: 2015 Theme: Welcoming Diversity Best for: 5 to 7 "The trouble with having a tiny elephant for a pet is that you never quite fit in." A simple children's book like this begins the process of opening hearts and minds to the beauty of diversity at an early age.
Published: 2005 Theme: Norse Myth Best for: 8 to 11 "I had never been in the Great Hall of Asgard before. Even from outside, it was the most amazing building I had ever seen, vaster and grander than I could have imagined possible..." This children's book is very easy to get through, and would make a nice complement to the third graders after they work with the original Norse myth...
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