Children

What do you do when you meet a ghost? One: Provide the ghost with some of its favorite snacks, like mud tarts and earwax truffles. Two: Tell your ghost bedtime stories (ghosts love to be read to). Three: Make sure no one mistakes your ghost for whipped cream or a marshmallow when you aren't looking! If you follow these few simple steps and the rest of the essential book’s essential tips, you'll see how a ghost friend will lovingly grow up and grow old with you. 

One of my favorite Spooky Halloween stories. There are so many good things in this book for teachers, families, or even speech therapists. The repetitive language is awesome the story isn't too scary or spooky. The story has actions that always get children to participate. There are so many great lessons you can do with this book like sequencing, patterning, art, and math. Great fall book to have for teachers or families.

The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand!  Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom.  But is there room on the broom for so many friends?  And when disaster strikes, will they be able to save the witch from a hungry dragon?

Beep! Beep! It’s Halloween! Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party. Lift the flaps in this large, sturdy board book to find out who’s dressed up in each costume! Will Blue wear a costume too?

Through sixteen exquisitely illustrated poems, four of which have the surprise and pleasure of being foldouts, this wonderful collection consists of playful as well as powerfully memorable poems by poets ranging from Lewis Carroll and William Blake to Hilaire Belloc and Christina Rossetti.

Inspired by his big sister’s love of reading and writing, a young boy learns that he, too, can write stories that others appreciate and enjoy. Mike Lowery’s illustrations add to this terrific book that will encourage emergent writers to become authors and storytellers.

Is there anything better than sharing a meal with the people you love? A heartwarming Igbo story of sharing and community in colorful cut-paper designs as luscious as Omu's stew, with an extra serving of love.

From one of my favorite nature writers comes his personal tales of his childhood pets – which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog. His brood grows out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls. The story of how Wol and Weeps turn the whole town upside down is warm, funny, and bursting with adventure and suspense.

Just what the doctor ordered for parents looking to improve their children’s language skills. This treasure boasts playground songs and classroom songs, silly songs and sweet songs, wake-up songs and bedtime songs. Classics that are fun and will truly benefit all young children.

How have I forgotten to include this one before now? A wide-mouthed alligator slithers out of the sewer and slips down the street and up the stairs of an apartment house. Children try to stop the advancing reptile, but to no avail. Filled with lots of onomatopoeic devices, this is a favorite read aloud with little ones.

Tweens and teens, ages 8 to 12, will enjoy complete panda-monium with this in-depth look at “Dude Perfect:” five guys who are kickin' it, throwin' it, tossin' it and shootin' it for more than 55 million YouTube subscribers and more than twelve billion views. Instead of fighting the internet – why not embrace it to foster better reading habits?

A heartfelt picture book celebration of food, community and family – and little dumpling treasures from around the world.

Based on his popular Instagram comics, Pyle presents a delightful, heartfelt and clever picture book that draws on his unique perspective on human activity and delivers a colorful experience that is an ode to cats and humans alike. 

Book lovers everywhere will adore this twist on an old tale, recommended to me by Linda Nelson! This young boy cannot think of a worse way to spend his summer: he has to help his Dad out with his bookstore, and he absolutely hates to read! His job is to watch the store for shoplifters, but things take a twisted turn when he spies a pale character who seems to float through the aisles of the store. But this stranger is not trying to steal books – he is drinking the words out of them with a straw! So the boy goes on a chase to find out what this fellow is all about and they both wind up in a cemetery, where the boy discovers a taste for something much more filling than ink!

A Classic that I’ve always loved. In this enchantingly told original folktale, a wise quiltmaker makes the most beautiful quilts in the world – but she will give them only to those who have nothing. When a rich, dissatisfied king insists that she give him one of her quilts, she gives him what seems an impossible task: to give away all he owns. One by one, the king gives away his many possessions, and finds that the more he gives away, the happier he is. Finally, when the king has nothing, the quiltmaker gives him the promised quilt. But he knows that the true reward for his generosity has been the smiles of those he has helped. I’m starting to think adults need to re-read a lot of children’s books to remind themselves of kindness and decency.