Insect Picture Books

May 18, 2026May 25, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Insect picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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Cover for Log Life which has a fir tree growing from a nurse log. A mouse, snails, beetles, mushrooms are on the fallen log.

Log Life (Tiny Habitats)

by Amy Hevron (Author, Illustrator)

Brief summary: This book is a narrative nonfiction that educates young readers about the life cycle of a giant fir tree that falls to the ground and transforms into a nurse log. As the log slowly decays in the forest, it becomes a source of nourishment for fungi, plants, insects, animals, and birds throughout the first year until it completely decomposes many decades later.

Comments: I had never heard of the term “nurse log” before and found it fascinating to learn about what happens to a fallen tree.

The illustrations were created using acrylic, marker, and pencil on Bristol board and then digitally collaged.

The back sections are More About Nurse-Log Habitats, Selected Sources, and Additional Reading.

Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗1/2

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The Monarch insect is on the milkweed. A field of bright flowers with the butterfly at different stages.

Milkweed for Monarchs

by Christine Van Zandt (Author), Alejandra Barajas (Illustrator)

Brief summary: There are two types of text teaching readers about monarch butterflies. There is a lyrical, rhyming text and informative text boxes on each page.

Monarchs migrate back north after it warms to lay eggs on milkweed plants. We learn the stages of the butterfly from egg to adult.

Comments: The back sections include the Author’s Note, Monarchs Need Our Help, How You Can Help, Fun Facts, The Senses, and Selected Bibliography.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants

by Philip Bunting (Author)

Brief summary: The ant’s life cycle and fun facts are explained in this nonfiction book for kids. Each ant has a role in the colony.

Comments: Nonfiction texts often include helpful features that aid in understanding the information presented. These features may include charts, diagrams, captions, and labels.

I really enjoyed the puns and humorous language used in the text.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Butterfly on the Wind

by Adam Pottle (Author), Ziyue Chen (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Aurora is feeling nervous the day before her talent show. Sitting in her family’s garden, she practices hand-signing for the play she wrote. While she’s rehearsing, a butterfly lands on a flower and Aurora signs “butterfly,” creating a small wind. This little wind continues to other children around the world, who all start signing “butterfly” too, and the wind grows stronger. Will this wind help Aurora on the day of her talent show?

Comments: An Author’s Note and an ASL chart are in the back.

Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

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A blond hair girl with glasses is looking at various insect species while outside in the garden.

The Girl Who Loves Bugs

by Lily Murray (Author), Jenny Løvlie (Illustrator)

Summary: Evie loves picking up insect species and other creepy crawlies. She enjoys looking at them with her magnifying glass and putting them in her pockets. Her family does not share her passion and tells her to leave them, as it’s time to go home.

Evie decides to take them inside and place them in her room.

Her extended family comes to visit the next day. What could possibly go wrong?

Comments: The illustrations are digital. The back pages share ideas for helping bugs and a brief biological sketch of Evelyn Cheesman, an entomologist who inspired the book.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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The Bumblebee Garden

by Dawn Casey (Author), Stella Lim (Illustrator)

Summary: Ben and his grandpa spot a bumblebee in the garden. Grandpa educates his grandson about the bumblebee’s life cycle, explaining its activities in each season as the book unfolds.

Comments: There is a back section titled The Life Cycle of a Queen Bumblebee.

The illustrations were handcrafted using watercolor and colored pencils, finishing with digital methods.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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The selected children’s books are chosen by a highly qualified retired elementary school librarian, who passionately reads and recommends picture books to teachers, school librarians, parents, grandparents, and other book enthusiasts.

Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Immigration Picture Books

May 18, 2026May 25, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Immigration picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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A daughter, mother, and grandmother are talking with one another

My Mother’s Tongues: A Weaving of Languages

by Uma Menon (Author), Rahele Jomepour Bell (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Sumi’s mother speaks two tongues–Malayalam and English. The little girl notices how her mother is able to go back and forth between the two languages but only has one tongue in her head. Sumi has learned both languages and uses them at different times in her daily routine and when her family go to visit relatives in Kerala, India.

She learns that some people have several tongues and can communicate with more people. This inspires her to learn more languages.

Comments: These lovely illustrations were created using mixed media.

This book would be a wonderful classroom share with students to teach how having multiple languages is an advantage.

It should be noted that this picture book was created by a sixteen-year-old who I hope to see more books from in the future.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Home Is a Wish

by Julia Kuo (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: A young girl, her mother, and Amah leave their home for a new one in a different country where everything feels unfamiliar. Over time, they work together to create a new home.

Comments: A gentle book about immigration that would be a wonderful read aloud.

The illustrations were created using Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom tablet.

Rating: 4.5 📗📗📗📗1/2

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Thread by Thread

by Alice Brière-Haquet (Author), Michela Eccli (Illustrator), Sarah Ardizzone (Translator)

Brief summary: A family of mice have their knitted home come apart when more and more yarn unravels. They run away from a fire breathing dragon and go across the water in a knitted red boat to a land where they slowly knit their house back together with the help of other animals using different colored threads until they make a new safe home.

Comments: A wonderful allegory to teach elementary students about refugees and escaping to a new land that is safe.

This story was originally published din France in 2023 and translated to English in 2025.

The illustrations were created with drawing, photography, and yarn.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A Star Shines Through

by Anna Desnitskaya (Author)

Brief summary: At the beginning of a war, a young girl and her mother flee their country. They settle in a new land with an unfamiliar language and cuisine. Amidst their new surroundings, the girl constructs a cardboard lamp, which she places in the window. It is reminiscent of the one from their previous home, establishing a connection between her past and present.

Comments:

I think this book would comfort those ESL students who realize what they have like the star lamp in the story that makes their new home feel a little bit like their old home.

The Author’s Note recounts her family’s necessity to emigrate due to the war in their home country, Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine.

The illustrations were created with hand-drawn contours and Photoshop.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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*I was sent a complimentary copy of this book.

Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States

by Rajani LaRocca (Author), Huy Voun Lee (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Some people are U.S. citizens by birth, while others arrive from different countries and choose to become naturalized citizens. This picture book offers a meaningful way to introduce the many paths to citizenship and the personal stories behind why people choose to become Americans.

Comments: The illustrations are created with paper samples and Procreate.

The author’s note in the back shares about the author’s own immigration from India and becoming a naturalized citizen.

On a personal note: My mother is an immigrant, and I still remember her carefully reading her workbook, studying for the citizenship test. I watched with pride as she raised her hand to take the Oath of Allegiance, standing alongside others in a naturalization ceremony at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus.

This book could be shelved in the picture books or in the nonfiction section of 304.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Home in a Lunchbox

by Cherry Mo (author and illustrator)

Brief summary: Jun moves from Hong Kong to America and only knows four English words on her first day of school: hello, thank you, I don’t know, and toilet. As the week progresses, she has many frustrations as she learns a new routine, language, and group of people, but lunchtime is when she feels the love of home that helps her to persist.

Comments: This book is a great resource for helping students understand the experiences of new students from other countries. It includes a heartwarming story about students bonding over their favorite foods at lunch, which helps them form deeper connections. This book is particularly valuable for ESL teachers and school counselors to share with new students at school. There are not many words and the story is mainly told with large, colorful illustrations.

I could not find anywhere on the book or her website saying how the illustrations were created for this picture book. The back sections explain Jun’s words on her hand and the food in her lunchbox.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Grandparent picture book of a grandson standing with his grandfather behind him

At the Drop of a Cat

by Élise Fontenaille (Author), Violeta Lópiz (Illustrator), Karin Snelson (Translator), Emilie Robert Wong (Translator).

Summary: A grandson visits his Grandpa Luis every Wednesday and Sunday. His grandpa is not only a talented artist but can make anything grow, creating the beautiful garden where they spend their days. The six-year-old is learning to read and write and tells us that his Grandpa does not know how as he was an immigrant from Spain to France who had to work in the fields as a child.

Comments: This is a French translation and captures the two kindred spirits. I like the mixed-up idioms and how the grandson narrates how he is getting to know Grandpa Luis.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Garden Picture Books

May 12, 2026May 24, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Garden picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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Avocado Magic

by Taltal Levi (Author)

Summary: Ellie celebrates her birthday and is upset that her feet still do not reach the floor when she sits at the kitchen table. Her father shows her how to suspend an avocado seed with toothpicks into a glass of water.

He parallels Ellie’s slow growth to that of the seed, emphasizing that both need patience. Slowly the seed sprouts. It gradually develops into an avocado plant and grows alongside Ellie until it’s time both move out of the house.

When Ellie marries and has children, she brings the tree with her to plant in her own yard.

Comments: The metaphor for growth is absolutely beautiful!

The back section has instructions on how to sprout your own avocado.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Ayla swimming around the coral reef with fish following her in a circle. Cover of The Ocean Gardner.

The Ocean Gardener

by Clara Anganuzzi (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: Ayla and her mother live on an island surrounded by a coral reef. Her mother, who is a marine biologist, takes care of the reef and teaches Ayla about the marine life around it. Unfortunately, they notice that the fish are leaving because the reef is fading. To solve this problem, Ayla’s mother teaches her how to make a coral reef garden by planting tiny pieces of coral in their house and later moving them to the ocean. Will this effort bring the fish back?

Comments: Before reading The Ocean Gardener, I had no knowledge about the process of coral reef restoration. Now, I have an understanding.

The back section includes information from Chloe Pozas, a marine biologist who inspired the book. Additionally, there are some photos of coral gardens included in the back of the book and a section titled If You Want to Know More…

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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This Little Kitty in the Garden

by Karen Obuhanych (Author)

Summary: Spring has arrived, and five cats living on Sakura Way head towards the garden shed to collect their tools to work on creating a garden. However, they get distracted upon going there and start enjoying the presence of other creatures already in the garden. The owners of the cats come out to the garden and are delighted to see that everything has been planted.

Comments: The illustrations were created with colored pencils, charcoal, and cut paper.

Rating: 4/5📗📗📗📗

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A young girl is looking at some potted plants with Sprouts coming out of them with a frosted window behind her.

Wintergarden

by Janet Fox (Author), Jasu Hu (Illustrator)

Brief summary: In the winter, a girl helps her mother grow a garden on the window sill in little pots. The child cares for and tends the plants, harvesting some for their Thanksgiving meal.

When the weather warms up, she looks forward to picking out seeds to grow more plants.

Comments: Directions for how to grow your own wintergarden are at the back of the book.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Garden Walk

by Virginia Brimhall Snow (Author)

Summary: Grammy and her four grandchildren walk through the forest and to the garden, learning about plants, animals, and insects. They place a blanket on the ground and picnic while Grammy reads to them. Narrated by one of the children.

Comments: Blue ink illustrations with the plants, animals, or insects highlighted with full-colored words that match the subject.

Picnic recipes are in the back.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A grandfather giving his granddaughter a pot of peonies

Love Makes a Garden Grow

by Taeeun Yoo (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: A young girl and her grandfather tend a garden together until he moves to an apartment where he brings some of his plants.

She grows up and lives far away, but her grandfather sends her a gift of peonies. When her daughter grows, the granddaughter visits the man showing her little one how to tend the house plants and flowers like he taught her.

Comments: An Author’s Note in the back explains how this story is based on her relationship with her grandfather.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗 1/2

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A girl in a polka dot dress on the rooftop garden gathering fruit and fegetables for her basket while a cat is chasing butterflies

Linh’s Rooftop Garden (Where In the Garden?)

by JaNay Brown-Wood (Author), Samara Hardy (Illustrator)

Summary: Lihn needs to find blueberries for their brunch and walk around the rooftop looking at all the fruits and vegetables. The girl describes what a blueberry looks like and compares those characteristics to each plant methodically until she finds them.

Comments: There is a blueberry and banana pancake recipe in the back.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗 1/2

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If you enjoy this book, you may be interested in the other three books of the Where in the Garden? series:

A child with flowers all around them wearing a necklace of daisies.

Watch Me Bloom: A Bouquet of Haiku Poems for Budding Naturalists

by Krina Patel-Sage (Author, Illustrator)

Brief summary: A collection of twenty-four haikus about different flower species, all illustrated with lovely bright colors, including the paste-down end pages.

Comments: There are Floral Fun Facts in the back of the book.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗 1/2

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A word on a rock with quilled plants growing beside it

Just a Worm

by Marie Boyd (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: Worm begins its day crawling through the garden when two humans cause it to have self-doubt. The worm crawls through a garden talking with each insect and creature it comes across, asking what it can do. Will the worm realize its importance to a garden and regain self-confidence?

Comments: The back pages include Make Your Own Quilled Butterfly, Earthworm Facts, and a Glossary. Illustrated using quilling techniques to make the plants.

I recommend that this picture book be read to supplement a quilling unit.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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George Washington Carver as a young man with a moustache holding a large pot of white flowers

George Washington Carver: More Than “The Peanut Man” (Bright Minds): More Than “The Peanut Man”

by Janel Rodriguez (Author), Subi Bosa (Illustrator)

I’ve only known George Washington Carver as the “peanut man” and updated my education when reading this narrative nonfiction about this knowledgeable and talented man nicknamed “Plant Doctor.”

Summary: This book begins with his life as a child who studied plants and painted them. It continues with his young adulthood of going to college, learning, and experimenting with plants. The book tells of his adulthood of going around in a Jesup wagon, educating farmers on improving their crops and livestock. Readers will learn about many of his inventions and personal life too. I enjoyed reading about this remarkable man.

Comments: This book is full of a variety of nonfiction text features. The back sections include Your Turn!, Glossary, Index, and Further Reading.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A Place for Rain

by Michelle Schaub (Author), Blanca Gómez (Illustrator)

Summary: In this book of rhyming lyrics, young readers will learn where the rain goes during a flood. The students at school are taught how to place a barrel beneath a spout and how to create a path for overflow.

Comments: Learn how to create a rain barrel garden with native plants that thrive in excess water.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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A child tending a garden with plants and animals. Geese are flying overhead.

Little Land

by Diana Sudyka (Author, Illustrator).

Summary: This is an ecological/environmental story from the beginning of the earth to its present of how the land and its inhabitant have changed and how to live in balance.

Comments: I included this book under gardening(although it could be under ecology or environmental) as it highlights how to tend a little bit of land.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A young girl with a short orange ponytail and pink headband with white polka dots is holding a plant with her yellow dog placing its paw on the plant

Love Grows

by Ruth Spiro (Author), Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illustrator)

Summary: A young girl’s auntie sends her a plant per month with a tag of information about the plant. By the end of the year, the girl has a plant garden.

Comments: The front and back-pasted end pages outline the twelve plants with the Latin name, origins, and light preference.

This story is done in rhyme. The illustrations are gouache, colored pencil, and crayon.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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A little girl in a red hoody looking at a flower with her black and white dog. She has a box of seeds.

Every Little Seed

by Cynthia Schumerth (Author), Elisa Paganelli (Illustrator)

Summary: A young girl with her mother and grandfather plant seeds in the spring garden and tend them to grow, observing how the seed changes to develop. Birds and bugs visit the garden. Soon fall comes when the plants begin to produce seeds they gather for the next planting.

Comments: A plant’s cycle.

A story in rhyme.

Facts about seeds are in the back of the book, including a seed diagram.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A Flower is a Friend

by Frieda Wishinsky (Author), Karen Patkau (Illustrator)

Summary: An animal/creature is paired with a flower in the garden, and readers are asked why they coexist so well. Answers are in the book of how they benefit each other.

Comments: This is an excellent resource for introducing the concept of symbiosis. The illustrations made it clear and concrete.

Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

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garden and flowers in a circle with a white picket fence with a city scape background

My First Garden: For Little Gardeners Who Want to Grow

by Livi Gosling (Author)

Summary: This nonfiction book is a beginning guide to gardening with step-by-step instructions. Everything one needs to know is covered with illustrations.

Comments: This is for the primary children to learn by looking at the lovely illustrations or for older elementary students who want to start a gardening club.

I usually stick to picture book reviews, but this nonfiction book’s illustrations make a difference with the covered topics by clarifying the lesson.

Ratings:4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A young girl and her mother with henna on their hands.

A Garden in My Hands

by Meera Sriram (Author), Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator)

Summary: A little girl has her hands Painted by her mother for a wedding the next day. Her mother tells her memories as she paints a garden of flowers and decorations. She sleeps with gloves on over the henna to wake and brush the flakes off to reveal her red garden of stories and the fragrance of henna.

Comments: Facts about henna are in the back of the book.

Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

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G is for Gardening (A Gardening ABC Primer)

by Ashley Marie Mireles (Author), Volha Kaliaha (Illustrator)

Summary: Readers will learn their ABCs of gardening, discovering tools, plants, and animals in a garden.

Comments: Large and colorful illustrations. A good builder of garden vocabulary.

Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

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City Beet

by Tziporah Cohen (Author), Udayana Lugo (Illustrator).

Summary: Mrs. Kosta and Victoria plant and nurture a beet seed until it ripens. The woman begins to harvest the gigantic beet but cannot remove it from the ground, no matter how hard she tugs. Several neighbors stop by the garden to help pull, creating a line out to the sidewalk until the vegetable is uprooted with a big “SPROING!!”

Comments: There is an Author’s Note and Raw Beet & Garlic Salad Recipe in the back.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A young boy and his grandmother are walking in a flower garden

My Baba’s Garden

by Jordan Scott (Author), Sydney Smith (Illustrator)

Summary: Author, Jordan Scott, recalls visiting with his Baba at her home. His father would drop Jordan off to have breakfast with his Baba and afterwards, they would walk together to his school. If it was raining, Baba would look for worms and put them in a glass jar to take home for her garden.

His baba would retrieve him after school, and they would spend time in her garden learning about the plants. This is their usual routine until she moves in with the family when a new building is built over her home. Not able to have a full garden any longer, she keeps a little garden in her room.

Comments: Told through the first-person point of view by the boy.

Jordan Scott wrote one of the most lovely book dedications I’ve ever read.

Rating: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗

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Inside the Compost Bin

by Melody Sumaoang Plan (Author), Vinh Nguyen (Illustrator), Rong Pham (Illustrator)

Brief summary: This narrative nonfiction picture book shares how a woman cares for a compost bin. She diligently adds organic material, mixes them, and waters the compost to create nutrient-rich soil for her plants.

Comments: This book covers the bugs and organisms in the bin and those underneath. The back pages have more information on how to start composing.

Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗1/2

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The Bumblebee Garden

by Dawn Casey (Author), Stella Lim (Illustrator)

Summary: Ben and his grandpa spot a bumblebee in the garden. Grandpa educates his grandson about the bumblebee’s life cycle, explaining its activities in each season as the book unfolds.

Comments: There is a back section titled The Life Cycle of a Queen Bumblebee.

The illustrations were handcrafted using watercolor and colored pencils, finishing with digital methods.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Grandma’s Roof Garden

by Tang Wei (Author), Kelly Zhang (Translator)

Summary: An elderly granny collects discarded vegetables at the market to feed her animals and for compost. She has planted a rooftop garden, where she teaches neighborhood children how to care for plants. She shares her harvest with family and friends by having a meal together and giving extras for them to take home.

Comments: This book was initially printed in China in 2019.

The Author’s Note explains the author’s personal inspiration for this story.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Friendship Picture Books

May 11, 2026May 24, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Friendship picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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Echo

by Adam Rex (Author)

Summary: Junior Junior grew up on the side of a mountain and made friends with the echo. He loved that they agreed on everything he said. One day, a girl on the mountain across from him told him to stop shouting. She did not agree with everything he said. Junior Junior decides to run away to the valley to meet the echo and decides he doesn’t like someone who agrees with everything he says. Will he be friends with the girl on the hill even when she points out that he can be wrong at times?

Comments: I loved the humor in this book!

Great read aloud to emphasize manners, emotions, and how to agree to disagree.

The illustrations were created digitally in Procreate and Photoshop.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Evergreen

by Matthew Cordell (Author)

Brief summary: Evergreen, an anxious squirrel, lives in Buckthorn Forrest with her mother who has asked her to take soup to a sick Granny Oak who lives on the other side of the forest. Although frightened, Evergreen leaves the tree and heads towards Granny Oak’s, encountering several forest animals along the way.

Comments: This picture book is divided into a new chapter for each animal Evergreen meets. The illustrations are done with a 005 Micron Pen and painted with watercolors.

Students will be in suspense with each forest animal encounter wondering if the squirrel will be eaten.

Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗 1/2

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Like You, Like Me

by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw (Author)

Summary: Tulsi lives in America, and Vanessa lives in Tanzania. The girls become pen pals and learn about what is different and alike in their cultures.

They learn that even though they are continents apart there are things they both share. They have brothers, enjoy music, have pets, and like Nature.

The things that are different are also shared and help to bring on friendship across the globe.

Comments: The phrase “Like You, Like Me” is throughout the book to emphasis what they have alike even if sometimes it’s a bit different.

The illustrations were made with painted papers and oil sticks.

I would share this book before a pen pal project or for making a Venn Diagram of their likes and differences.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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The Quiet One

by Yiting Lee (Author)

Summary: Milly is an introvert and tends to be quiet in class. With Show and Tell approaching Friday, she is feeling anxious about it. At home, she has a special place where she enjoys tinkering and has created a robot named Arnold. Her new friend goes to school with Milly and helps her share her passion with the class.

Comments: This book is great for reading aloud. It could help kids learn about quiet individuals who enjoy sharing their interests. It also shows shy people that it’s okay to be themselves.

The illustrations were created using watercolors.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Revony Rhinoceros is a baby rhino holding up a smiling and frowning signs. There is a lake with hills behind.

Revony Rhinoceros Starts to Smile: A Lesson in Body Language

by Patricia Bardina (Author), Joanne Burgess (Author), Paul Sharp (Illustrator)

Summary: Revony Rhinoceros is at Bixby Baboon’s birthday party. The little rhino sits sulking and frowning by a tree, unsure how to play with the other invited guests. After the party, Revony’s mother discusses body language with her child. She explains that understanding friendly and unfriendly body language can help make friends. They then walk around the park, observing the other animals and how their body language reflects their feelings.

Revony Rhinoceros feels confident and uses friendly body language to make new friends at the park.

Comments: This book could be an introduction for school counselors, PreK, or K teachers to read aloud to explain nonverbal communication skills/body language and how that could impact friend-making.

This book was published in 2018, but it remains relevant today.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Three kangaroos dress in taekwondo uniforms have rescued a joey. They are standing with the sky above them and the field below. Cover of Rescue at Rattling Ridge

The Taekwonderoos: Rescue at Rattling Ridge

by Michael Panzner (Author), Lora Look (Illustrator)

Summary: Three gray Australian kangaroos were practicing taekwondo kicks in the desert when they heard a joey trapped on a cliff in the distance. They come together and cross the dangerous terrain to rescue the baby kangaroo.

Once they got to the top of the cliff, they had to figure out how to get back down using their skills and teamwork.

Comments: This picture book is illustrated with bright and bold colors of the desert.

The kangaroos did have on taekwondo uniforms–white shirts with black sashes.

Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

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Food Picture Books

May 10, 2026May 23, 2026 The Retired School Librarian1 Comment

Food picture picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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A young Fannie Farmer cooking with a large pot with vegetables. There are measuring utensils on the side. Book's cover

The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook

by Emma Bland Smith (Author), Susan Reagan (Illustrator)

Summary: In the late 1800s, Fannie Farmer developed a passion for cooking. Despite contracting polio at the age of sixteen, she enrolled in the Boston Cooking School, where she excelled and eventually became the principal. Fannie’s teaching focused on precise measurements and exact cooking methods, ensuring success for home cooks.

She rewrote the school’s cookbook with precision, which became incredibly popular. Fannie also gave lectures nationwide and even taught at Harvard Medical School.

Comments: After reading this narrative nonfiction picture book, I learned that people used non-standard measurements for cooking even though standard measurements were available. I was surprised to discover the variety of measurements in recipes passed down from generation to generation, such as a dash of this, a smidge of that, or a pinch of this.

The back sections contain photos and additional information about Fannie and the Boston Cooking School and how Ms. Farmer really improved cooking through precise and detailed recipes.

Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗1/2

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How Do You Eat Color?

by Mabi David (Author), Yas Doctor (Illustrator), Karen Llagas (Translator)

Summary: A boy and girl spend a day exploring and tasting various fruits and vegetables, grouped by color.

Comments: This is translated from Filipino.

The illustrations were created using oil on paper.

The back sections are A Rainbow of Colors(which highlights food from different colors, explaining how they benefit the body, and ways to eat them), Why Should We Eat A Rainbow of Fruits and Vegetables?, and How Families Can Eat More Colors Together.

This book could supplement an elementary-level food or color unit.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Cover of India on a Plate with a plate of food with various Indian food. One a table with a child peeking over it

India on a Plate!: Indian Food from A to Z

by Archana Sreenivasan (Author)

Summary: Young readers will enjoy seeing and learning foods of India in this brightly illustrated ABC board book.

Comments: Each letter has a fun rhyming three-lined verse describing the food.

There is a pronunciation guide after each food.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A and B foods with a grandmother and grandson sharing achaar and a father and daughter sharing a plate of biryani.

Jollof Day

by Bernard Mensah (Author), Annalise Barber-Opp (Illustrator)

Summary: A young boy and his dad wake up before the rest of the family on Jollof Day to prepare a special stew. They joyfully chop the ingredients and let the stew simmer. When the rest of the family wakes up, everyone sits down together for the special meal.

Comments: The recipe for the jollof rice dish is in the back of the book.

The bright and dynamic illustrations were created using watercolor paints, gouache, colored pencils, and digital edits in Photoshop.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Flower Picture Books

May 7, 2026May 21, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Flower picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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Book cover of A Dandelion with dandelion plants at various stages of the flower. A sun and moon are at the top of the cover with a blue background.

n are in the sky

A Dandelion (A Day in the Life Of)

by Ruth Owen (Author)

Summary: This narrative nonfiction picture book explains the life cycle of a dandelion from being a yellow flower to when it changes into seeds. The wind carries them to another location where they start over.

Comments: This is a smaller picture book about 8″ x 8.”

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The Weedflower

by Elizabeth Davaze (Author), Marianne Ferrer (Illustrator)

Summary: Sam notices a dandelion during recess and through her care and appreciation of it, several other students notice it as well. They nuture it, but soon find out that not everyone sees it as a beautiful flower.

Comments: This would make a nice read-aloud and discussion of nature all around us in our everyday lives.

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Book cover to Doe's Dandelions with a doe carrying a basket full of dandelions while on the green grass full of dandelions and daffodils

Doe’s Dandelions (Woodland Friends)

by Laura Renauld (Author), Jennie Poh (Illustrator)

Summary: In this Woodland Friends series, Doe is growing daffodils for the Spring Pedal Parade but keeps coming across annoying dandelion “weeds.” She soon learns from her friends how much joy and use they are to them.

Comments: This is a wonderful tribute to the benefit of some of the plants that are called weeds. Students can learn that all plants have value.

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Don’t Touch that Flower!

by Alice Hemming (Author), Nicola Slater (Illustrator)

Summary: Squirrel wakes from spring to find a new flower growing. He decides to protect it by not allowing any water to get on it, from bees landing on the petals, and even, putting it under a bucket.

Bird educates Squirrel about his good intentions are harming the flower instead.

Comments: This is a humorous read-aloud that opens a discussion of what plants need to thrive.

Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

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A Flower is a Friend

by Frieda Wishinsky (Author), Karen Patkau (Illustrator)

Summary: An animal/creature is paired with a flower in the garden, and readers are asked why they coexist so well. Answers are in the book of how they benefit each other.

Comments: This is an excellent resource for introducing the concept of symbiosis. The illustrations made it clear and concrete.

Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

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Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Earth Day Picture Books

March 28, 2026May 23, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Earth picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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Cover of the picture book The Day the River Caught Fire with three children looking at the river on fire

The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement

by Barry Wittenstein (Author), Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)

Summary: In the summer of 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire when sparks from a passing train ignited the debris in the water. It was not the first time the river caught on fire.

Comments: Young readers will learn about how the river became so polluted and what happened to change the pollution from worsening.

The narrative nonfiction story continues to reveal how polluted rivers across the country sparked widespread protests and ultimately led to the creation of the first Earth Day.

Back pages include sections: Author’s Note, Environmental Time Line, Clean Water Act, To Learn More, and a Bibliography.

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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

The picture book cover of Black Beach with Sam holding a picket sign saying "Save our planet." Marine animal life are with her while the oil rig is spilling oil onto the water

Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day

by Shaunna & John Stith (Author), Maribel Lechuga (Illustrator)

Summary: While in class in Santa Barbara, Sam notices her teacher’s concern after a quiet exchange with the principal, leaving her uneasy. At home, her parents explain that Union Oil has caused a spill nearby. When the family visits their favorite beach, they find it covered in black oil. The community comes together to clean the shoreline and rescue affected animals

Comments: This narrative nonfiction title connects a specific historical event to the origin of the national Earth Day holiday which was held on April 22, 1970.

There are several sections in the back of the book: Author’s Note, Selected Bibliography, Timeline, Earth Day Today, Earth Day Every Day, and How to Become an Environmental Activist.

Teachers and homeschooling parents could share this book as a supplement in addition with Earth Day activities.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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A boy and girl are under a tree with squirrels and birds and butterflies around them as they stand on grass an d flowers.

Happy Earth Day! (My Little Golden Book About…)

by Deborah Hopkinson (Author), Jennifer Zivoin (Illustrator)

Summary: In this narrative nonfiction, young readers learn about the history of Earth Day, what the holiday is, and why it is important.

Comments: This book discusses environmental conservation with facts and resolutions done in a sensitive and gentle way for children. The back matter includes ways to help the Earth.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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The Night Before Earth Day

by Natasha Wing (Author), Amy Wummer (Illustrator)

Summary: The diverse neighbors work together to make a better earth by creating a community garden, planting trees, and recycling, to name a few activities.

Comments: This rhyming style is in the classic Christmas poem. This book would make a great introduction supplement to Earth Day or environment units of study. Emphasis is on how people work as a team to take care of the planet.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Cover for Dino Earth Day with various dinosaurs in bright colors picking up trash in a park and recycling

Dino-Earth Day (Dino-Holidays)

by Lisa Wheeler (Author), Barry Gott (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Dinosaurs come together on Earth Day to help clean up the park, plant a garden, recycle, and do other things to help the planet.

Comments: This rhyming book with bright colorful illustrations is perfect for young dinosaur lovers .

Lisa Wheeler does school visits. When I was teaching, we had her as our guest author, and the students and teachers loved her presentation.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Four crayons holding hands while standing on top of the Earth

The Crayons Love Our Planet

by Drew Daywalt (Author), Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)

Brief summary: The crayons celebrate the different parts of the Earth they make. Each one is proud of what is drawn, especially Beige, who keeps trying to add wheat to every scene.

Comments: This is a small hardcover book (about 6″ x 7″) which would be a nice book in the little hands of toddlers or preschoolers that gently teaches about the beauty of Earth.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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My Friend Earth

by Patricia MacLachlan (Author), Frenci Sanna (Illustrator)

Brief summary: This book is a personification of Earth as a young girl who follows the changing seasons of the world as she tends to all of the animals, causing rain and snow, and tending the plants.

Comments: This is such a wonderful book to read and explore. It is interactive with die-cut pages that layer over one another to show different parts of the ecosystem. There are flaps and curved pages. The cover is raised so that one can touch the outlines of the illustration. The poetic text of Patricia MacLachlan beautifully ties it all together.

The illustrations were created in pencil, ink, and digital painting.

Rating: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗

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Earth Day: Ready-to-Read Level 1 (Robin Hill School)

by Margaret McNamara (Author), Mike Gordon (Illustrator)

Brief summary: The first grade students in Mrs. Connor’s class are thinking of big ways to save the planet for Earth Day but Emma feels overwhelmed and is concerned that her everyday contributions may not be enough. Her father and Mrs. Connor help Emma understand that small, daily actions can have big results for the Earth.

Comments: This beginning reader book helps to examine the topic of environment issues gently and focuses on empowering kids by teaching them small actions they can do.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day: A Springtime Book For Kids (I Can Read Level 1)

by Jane O’Connor (Author), Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Fancy Nancy learns about being green at school and decides to try what she learned at home, not realizing that she is overstepping. She learns that not being so rigid all of the time is helpful.

Comments: This beginning reader is in classic Fancy Nancy humor and fancy vocabulary words. The back matter includes the new words and also some catchy slogans such as “Less than a mile? Then bike in style.”

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Easter Picture Books

March 11, 2026May 23, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Easter picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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Sparrow and Mousie in a garden full of flowers

Sparrow’s Easter Garden

by Roger Hutchison (Author), Ag Jatkowska (Illustrator)

Summary: Sparrow returns to his garden in spring and finds that it is in disarray with weeds and dead plants. Mousie, Buck, and Turtle help to revive the space over the 40 days of Lent. All is going well until a storm on Good Friday damages some of the plants. The creatures persevere and get the garden ready again. On Easter, they experience a surprise.

Comments: This is a gentle introduction to the Lenten season, Holy Week, and Easter morning. It is a story about teamwork with each animal helping in its own unique way.

Rating: 4/5📗📗📗📗

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Three colored eggs are hidden in the branches of a pick blossomed tree

Chicka Chicka Peep Peep

by Julien Chung (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: The letters are curious to know what is in the pretty pink tree and slowly each goes up to see. Soon all are on the branches until there is a big sneeze.

Comments: This version of the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom series successfully maintains the rhythmic and rhyming structure that makes it a fun and musical read-aloud.

The story features lowercased letters while the front and back pasted down pages show both upper and lower letters for learning references.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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There is an Easter basket full of decorated eggs with little peas in various outfits and activities all around, on, and inside it including on the letters of the book

Hap-Pea Easter

by Keith Baker (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: Little peas are observing and participating with the arrival of spring. There is rain, blooming flowers, and time to color eggs. All help to decorate them for an Easter egg hunt.

Comments: This is a fun rhyming read-aloud for toddlers and preschoolers with so much detail of the little peas on each page. This is part of the Little Peas series.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Various dinosaur species are collecting easter eggs all in a garen of flowers

Dino-Easter (Dino-Holidays)

by Lisa Wheeler (Author), Barry Gott (Illustrator)

Summary: The dinosaurs decorate Easter eggs and hide them in the forest. They visit a candy factory to get candy to pass out and a clothing store to have outfits for the big Dino-Easter parade. Afterwards, they go on an Easter hunt and have a sweet celebration.

Comments: This is the traditional Dino signature of bouncy rhyming which makes it an exciting read-aloud.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Five pups are nosing an Easter egg that is on the grass.

Is This . . . Easter?

by Helen Yoon (Author, Illustrator)

Brief summary: A bear wearing bunny ears leaves an egg in the grass. The five dogs come across the egg, and all sniff it. Two pups decide it needed to be painted for Easter, while three want to make an omelet with it.

They argue back and forth, trying to persuade the other group that their idea is the correct decision. The bear returns and shows them how both sides can be accommodated in resolving their dispute.

Comments: I think this would be a lovely, humorous Easter read-aloud. Students could decide if the egg should be painted, eaten, or go with what the bear decided.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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We’re Going on an Egg Hunt

by Goldie Hawk (Author), Angie Rozelaar (Illustrator)

Summary: A trio of children with baskets are going through the countryside looking for eggs while encountering chickens, rabbits, and frogs along the way. They come across a garden full of flowers. When will they ever find the Easter eggs?

Comments: The illustrations are bright and large, making them perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. There are many fun onomatopoeias to say out loud and for little ones to repeat, making this a wonderful read-aloud.

This book is in the same spirit as the song “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” using similar rhythmic structure and repetition.

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A white bunny is accused of being the Easter bunny. He is dressed with a bow tie, has a basket full of colored eggs, and is white.

I Am NOT the Easter Bunny!

by T. L. McBeth (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: The narrator thinks they have spotted the Easter Bunny and keeps pointing out clues that indicate that indeed, the rabbit must be him. The rabbit always explains how he could not possibly be the Easter Bunny.

Comments: The narrator is in traditional text, while the Easter Bunny is in speech bubbles. This could be a cute and humorous read-aloud, with the students being the bunny and the reader playing the narrator.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Fiona the baby hippo has a baby swan resting on her nose as she stand amongst eggs.

Fiona and the Easter Egg Hunt

by Zondervan (Author), Richard Cowdrey (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Fiona, a baby hippo, plans an Easter egg hunt for her baby friends at the zoo. She begins to hide the eggs with the help of her friend Rico when the swan asks them to watch her eggs while she gathers more grass and leaves.

Fiona accidentally mixes the Easter eggs with those of the swan, not realizing that she did not replace all six eggs back into the bird’s nest. This causes all of the zoo animals to search for the missing egg.

Comments: This story has a nice lesson of the importance of having the responsibility of looking after things entrusted in your care. The illustrations have detailed facial expressions.

This is part of the Fiona series based on a hippo born at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Easter on the Farm

by Phyllis Alsdurf (Author), Lisa Hunt (Illustrator)

Summary: A young girl visits her aunt and uncle’s farm to celebrate Easter. She experiences new life on the farm, from newborn lambs to budding flowers, and prepares for a community egg hunt. On Sunday, the young girl finds an Easter basket the next day, attends Easter service, and an Easter egg hunt.

Comments: The back section includes instructions for making eggshell critters and dyeing eggs with natural materials.

This is part of the Countryside Holidays series.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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Elijah’s Easter Suit

by Brentom Jackson (Author), Emmanuel Boateng (Illustrator)

Summary: Elijah wants to find the perfect suit for Easter service but cannot find one that fits. He talks to Deacon Brown and Mother Green and gets an idea to sew his own suit collecting pieces of fabric from his family creating a patchwork sensation.

Comments: This is a lovely story about a young boy using a sewing machine, being resourceful, and creating something amazing.

Rating: 4/5📗📗📗📗

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Happy Easter from the Crayons

by Drew Daywalt (Author), Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)

Summary: In this festive installment, the crayons prepare for Easter by making various shapes to use on a large Easter egg.

Comments: This is a fun introduction to shapes and colors with the humor of the crayons. Oliver Jeffers’ minimalist illustrations against white make it best for toddlers who may be overwhelmed by busier and more detailed pages.

This small picture book(5.88 x 0.36 x 7.13 inches) could fit inside an Easter basket.

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Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

The picture book cover of Easter with a chocolate bunny and colored eggs instide of a basket

Easter (Happy Holidays! Series)

by Rebecca Sabelko (Author)

Summary: This early reader nonfiction chapter book has nonfiction text features explaining what Easter is and how it is celebrated.

Comments: A sight word chart is at the beginning with a photo glossary in the back.
This is a smaller hardcover book(5.22 x 0.07 x 8.59 inches).

This is a great option for holiday traditions units in K-1. It’s small for little hands and could be paired with a fictional picture book.

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Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

Easter Eggs and Matzo Balls

by Janie Emaus (Author), Bryan Langdo (Illustrator)

Summary: Michael texts the Easter Bunny to let him know that he has a new stepsister, Anna, who celebrates Passover but wants to make sure she gets something special in the Golden Egg since both holidays fall on the same day. The story follows the siblings as they hunt for the Easter Egg and Afikoman bag needed to celebrate the holidays.

Comments: This is a wonderful resource for interfaith families or classrooms looking to show how different spring traditions can coexist. The back includes a chicken soup recipe and a matzo balls recipe. There is a helpful glossary of Passover and Easter terms.

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Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗

Pick a Perfect Egg

by Patricia Toht (Author), Jarvis (Illustrator)

Summary: This beautiful digitally illustrated rhyming story begins with a mother and daughter going to the local farmer to pick out their eggs to decorate for Easter. They use natural coloring from plants, as well as dye tablets to color their eggs. The two decorate with care and then go to a festive egg hunt the next day.

Comments: This book does a wonderful job of highlighting natural coloring which I think would be a fun STEAM activity experimenting with colors in nature like beets. The illustrator captures the pastel colors of spring.

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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

Pete the Cat and the Easter Basket Bandit

by James Dean and Kimberly Dean

Summary: Pete wakes up on Easter morning and finds that his Easter basket is missing. He follows a trail of jellybeans to a friend’s house, but they haven’t seen it. Pete the Cat follows more candy trails, all leading to various friends, leaving Pete to wonder: Who has his basket?

Comments: This book has bonus goodies which include a poster in the front, stickers, and Easter cards. Cute book for a child’s Easter basket.

The fans of Pete the Cat series will enjoy the familiar groovy vibe and easy-to-follow mystery.

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Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

A frog dressing in clothing hopping along in the grass with a basket full of eggs while there is a large shadow of a rabbit over him

Peter Easter Frog

by Erin Dealey (Author), G. Brian Karas (Illustrator)

Summary: Peter decides he wants to have fun delivering Easter eggs. Along his way, he encounters several animals including a cow, turtle, and sheepdog who want to help too. They come across the Easter Bunny who is not happy with the help. Will they be able to change his mind?

Comments: This text is written in parts to the tune of “Here Comes Peter Cottontail with made-up words to fit the book’s theme. This is a humorous read-aloud that students will enjoy saying the fun words aloud.

This book was illustrated with mixed media.

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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

Bad Kitty Does Not Like Easter

by Nick Bruel (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: Bad Kitty loves Easter eggs and wants to find them all, as they have candy inside. Although there are many blue, red, and purple eggs, she is determined to get the golden egg. She bypasses all of the other eggs in her search for the golden one. She is angry when she doesn’t find it right away and decides she now hates Easter eggs. Will she change her mind?

Comments: This Bad Kitty book has a wonderful message about valuing friendship and will make a fun read-aloud. The illustrations were inked and then colored digitally; they are a mix of traditional text and comic-style panels.

Rated: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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The cover has a perimeter of jelly beans with Gilbert pushing aside grass to find a yellow egg

Last One in Is a Rotten Egg!

by Diane deGroat (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: Siblings Gilbert and Lola are happy that their cousin Wally is coming to visit. He decides not to go with them but off on his own. Meanwhile, opossum siblings and their friends look for the eggs. Lola finds the golden egg but can’t reach it. Her cousin grabs it and heads back to the starting line. Wally hurries back dropping all of his eggs while Gilbert and Lola pick them up including the golden one. Although Gilbert does receive the prize for the most eggs, he shows kindness towards his cousin.

Comments: This is an excellent teaching book for children about sportsmanship, rivalry, and empathy. It is part of the Gilbert and Friends series.

Rated: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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a monkey holding an Easter basket with a white bunny inside with colored Easter eggs on the grass

Happy Easter, Curious George

by R. P. Anderson (Author), Mary O’Keefe Young (Illustrator)

Summary: George and the man with the yellow hat go to the park, where they find children flying kites, decorating Easter baskets, and having rolling egg races. He notices a table where people are dying eggs and tries it for the first time. He later sees a man lose his eggs all over the park and decides to help him recover his eggs. Will George be able to set everything right again?

Comments: George has another classic misunderstanding that toddlers and preschoolers will relate to. The story introduces the concept of mixing colors to create new ones, making it a great supplement for a classroom unit on colors.

Rated: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

Hoppi wearing overalls with a baby robin sitting on a branch. There is a wreath of the different eggs that they are both looking through

The Easter Egg

by Jan Brett (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: Hoppi wants to have the best Easter egg and win the contest that will allow him to help the Easter Rabbit hide eggs. Hoppi goes to the various rabbits in the area also decorating various eggs such as carving, frosting, and painting them. Beginning to become discouraged, he decides to lie down under a tree to think, when he discovers a robin’s egg had fallen to the ground. He takes care of it, missing the contest.

Comments: Jan Brett’s illustrations are stunning with its decorated borders, watercolors, and gouache. There is a fold-out page at the end showing all of the rabbits’ finished eggs.

This story has a heartfelt message about kindness and generosity towards one another.

Rated: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

a white hen amongst daffodils and tulips looking at a colored egg

Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs

by Janet Morgan Stoeke (Author)

Summary: Minerva Louise is enjoying a beautiful spring morning when she notices brightly colored eggs in very odd places. Worried that a hen has left her eggs unattended in the cold, Minerva Louise sits on them to keep them warm. As she finds more, she informs her friends in the hen house to come out. They eventually see the farm children gathering the eggs in baskets and decide everything is okay; after all, that’s just what farmers do!

Comments: I love this dramatic irony where the reader knows more than the character. This would make a hilarious read-aloud for young primary students.

The large text at the bottom of each page makes it an excellent choice for beginning readers.

Rated: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

There is a white Bunny carrying an Easter basket. He also has a whole bunch of wagons full of Easter rabbits and looks like he's in the city.

The Story of the Easter Bunny

by Katherine Tegen (Author), Sally Anne Lambert (Illustrator)

Summary: A little white rabbit watches an elderly couple paint Easter eggs, weave baskets, and make chocolate eggs. The couple would then deliver these baskets to the children in the village. When the elderly couple was unable to do this he took over the chore every Easter morning and became known as the Easter Bunny.

Comments: This is a wonderful original story by Katherine Tegen that feels like folklore. The watercolor illustrations with pastel colors give it a nostalgic feel. It is a perfect pick for children who are curious about how the little white bunny became the Easter Bunny.

Rated: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

There is an Easter Bunny hidden behind a chair with a little chick are all picking up eggs and candy off of the floor. There is a child peeking over the chair watching them.

The Night Before Easter

by Natasha Wing (Author), Kathy Couri (Illustrator)

Summary: On Easter Eve, two children are sleeping when the Easter Bunny arrives and begins hiding eggs, filling baskets with treats, and leaving chocolate bunnies before vanishing at dawn while the little boy quietly watches the entire time.

Comments: This is part of Natasha Wing’s popular The Night Before series. It’s a fun, rhyming read-aloud that follows the rhythm of the classic Christmas poem, making it very catchy and easy for kids to follow along.

While the standard size is 8″x8″, you may occasionally find smaller gift-sized hardcover editions that are perfect for an Easter basket.

Rated: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Mental Health Picture Books

March 6, 2026May 23, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Mental health picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

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❗This cumulative list grows over time, with the newest books always appearing at the top.❗

Our Lake

by Angie Kang (Author, Illustrator)

Summary: Two brothers walk to the lake to go swimming without their father for the first time since he died. The older brother jumps into the water from the cliff and coaxes his brother to join him. Will he be able to jump without the help of his father?

Comments: A beautiful story of two brothers learning how to grieve while moving forward without their father beside them; only in spirit.

The illustrations were created using gouache with additional textures added in crayon and colored pencil.

This is an excellent story to share with students and children experiencing death of a relative. It is gentle and quiet and does not overly emphasize their feelings.

Rating: 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

Cecil is fixing a watch at a table with his tools and parts of the watch on the table. A dog is watching him.

Small Things Mended

by Casey W. Robinson (Author), Nancy Whitesides (Illustrator)

Summary: Cecil steps outside his house after hearing Lily, the little girl next door, playing in her yard. Suddenly, a watch flies out of her pocket and lands in his driveway. He manages to fix the watch and realizes how much he enjoys repairing things. Before long, several other children come to him with their broken toys and items that need fixing. Cecil also invites the neighbors over for lunch in his backyard. As a result, he starts feeling happy again.

Comments: The illustrations were created using gouache, crayons, pencils, and digital media.

The book does not explain Cecil’s melancholy forthrightly, but the empty house and empty chairs could indicate that he is now a widower.

Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗1/2

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

A young child with a hat is showing a crayon drawing of a cactus.

Just What to Do

by Kyle Lukoff (Author), Hala Tahboub (Illustrator)

Summary: A young child strives to bring comfort to various friends, realizing that each one requires support in different ways. One friend, who has lost her grandmother, feels unsure about how to cope. Together, they explore ways to simply be present for each other.

Comments: This is a kind and gentle book that teaches how people grieve and how they need comforting in various ways.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

A boy is hiking in the woods that is green, yellow, brown, and yellow swirls.

A Walk in the Woods

by Nikki Grimes (Author), Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)

Summary: A boy, whose father passed away a week ago, opens an envelope left for him. Inside, he finds a map of the woods they used to explore together. He decides to follow the path marked on the map, leading him to an old fireplace marked with an “X.” As he discovers this hidden spot, he finds comfort in what he unearths and realizes that his father is still close to him in spirit.

Comments: Beautifully illustrated with sketches and watercolors

Rating: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

Sad girl out on the lake in a small boat with a face of sad emotions

Mouseboat

by Larissa Theule (Author), Abigail Halpin (Illustrator)

Brief summary: A girl who has recently lost her mother goes on a trip to their lake house with her father. She misses her mother but can not find a connection until she takes out the mouse boat she and her mother built together. She can face her emotions.

Comments: The illustrator captured the mourning girl’s facial expressions and the sad tone of the house of grief with cool, darker colors. Well done.

I could follow the storyline with or without the text, which is an excellent picture book to me. I’d like to see more picture books with this duo. They complement each other well.

Rating: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗

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Under Anna’s Umbrella

by Amanda Driscoll (Author), Luisa Uribe (Illustrator)

Summary: Anna was attending her father’s funeral when it started pouring rain, but she felt safe under her large umbrella. Afterwards, she began carrying her open umbrella everywhere—both inside and outside. One day, she saw a boy getting soaked in the rain and invited him to seek shelter under her umbrella. How will Anna learn to walk in the sunlight again without her umbrella shading her?

Comments: The journey of grief that Anna experienced before she could walk in the sun again is a touching story that may help children.

The illustrations were created digitally.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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The Hole

by Lindsay Bonilla (Author), Brizida Magro (Illustrator)

Summary: A boy notices gaps in his home, in his parents, and within himself where his younger brother, Matty, used to fit. He realizes that other people also have these holes, as they, too, have lost someone. Eventually, he confronts his emptiness and delves into his emotions. His friend Nora asks if he would like to share memories about his brother, which helps him begin to feel better.

Comments: This would make a wonderful book to help students deal with grief.

I like how the boy can fill the hole with good memories of his brother.

The illustrations were created using watercolor washes, colored pencils, and paper collage, all assembled digitally.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

A large bear in a tree looking up to the leaves while exploring his emotions of wanting to be alone

Bear Is Never Alone

by Marc Veerkamp (Author), Jeska Verstegen (Illustrator), Laura Watkinson (Translator)

Brief summary: Bear plays the piano in the forest and comes to his last song, ready for a break. The animals around him start to shout for him to play more. He just wants to be alone, but the animals chase him, demanding for Bear to play more. Will Bear ever be alone?

Rating 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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children wearing the same clothing as the background wall

Wallflowers

by Mackenzie Joy (Author, Illustrator)

Brief summary: Shy and quiet children who would rather observe and not be in the spotlight are given encouragement to be themselves. They may like to be heard at times, but not in an extroverted way.

Comments: This book celebrates introverts and does not try to change them from being wallflowers but instead bloom with their emotions.

The illustrations are drawn with them looking like the background.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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The Noise Inside Boys: A Story About Big Feelings

by Pete Oswald (Author)

Brief summary: Brothers yell how they feel while playing outside on the beach. One boy is encouraged by his father to take a moment and experience the feeling and name it. Be aware of your emotions and name them to understand them. He is told that a feeling will come and go.

Comments: I think this would make a great read-aloud. I like the philosophy that feelings come and go and to push them because they are not there forever.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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Tow girls playing in the rain with their dog with happy emotions

Sometimes: A Day Full of Feelings

by Stephanie Stansbie (Author), Elisa Paganelli (Illustrator)

Brief summary: A brother and sister experience everyday feelings that come and go. They learn to recognize their feelings in different situations, realize that another one will come along, and learn how to move through that one too. Emotions are everyday occurrences.

Comments: There is a back page of encouragement to help young readers to get through more difficult feelings.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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MIa is wearing tute while doing a headstand

Wepa

by J de laVega (Author, Illustrator)

Brief summary: Besides being intelligent, Mia likes to be creative and fashionable but has some things she does not do well. Her Mami says she has too much wepa. Mia tries ballet, hoping to get some of the wepa out, but it does not work. She finally finds an avenue where she releases her wepa.

Comments: According to dictionary.com, wepa means “a Spanish slang used to convey excitement, congratulations, and joy, similar to the English Oh yeah!, Wow!, or That’s awesome!“

The author shares that everyone in her family has ADHD.

This is a bilingual English-Spanish picture book.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

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A young child is sitting with a polar bear on the side of a hill with green grass looking out towards the water with mountains in the background.

How to Be Brave

by Karl Newson (Author), Clara Anganuzzi (Illustrator)

Brief summary: A young child encourages and explains that trying something new may be scary at times, but to not give up. There may be setbacks and take the moment to learn from them. Be brave and go forward.

Comments: The child is shown with various animals trying new things.

Optimistic advice and encouragement throughout.

The illustrations were done with pencil and watercolor and digitally colored.

Continue reading for more details and buying options on this book’s Amazon page.

Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2

It Is Okay

by Ye Guo (Author)

Brief summary: Goat enjoys a cup of coffee and toast with canned grass. He realizes he has run out of grass and goes to the grocery store, where he encounters Bunny choosing the same thing. They quickly become friends and make it a daily ritual to have breakfast together. As they explore around town, they discover that what one can’t do, the other can help with. Despite their differences, they still can establish a friendship.

Comments: The illustrations were created with monoprint backgrounds, details added in pencil and colored pencil, pastel, wax pastel, watercolor pen, ink, and collage.

I enjoyed this quiet, kind book about friends who are different from one another but can still get along and form a friendship.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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*I was sent a complimentary copy of this book.

Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Religion-Based Picture Books

March 3, 2026May 23, 2026 The Retired School LibrarianLeave a comment

Religious-based picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.

(The content below contains Amazon affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Mrs. Ferraris may earn an affiliate commission at no additional cost to you. These titles may be found on my Amazon Storefront under Religion-Based Picture Books– https://amzn.to/48NBD2O .)

❗This cumulative list grows over time, with the newest books always appearing at the top.❗

A monk is at a calligraphy table making the rain character is sitting outside amongst mountains while it is raining.

Little Monk Writes Rain

by Hsu-Kung Liu (Author), Rachel Wang Yung-Hsin (Translator)

Summary: Little Monk is not able to read. He goes to Old Monk, who teaches him the character for rain. He practices calligraphy every day, always only writing the character for rain.

As he grows to become a man now called Big Monk, he still cannot read but continues to write rain. A drought comes to the land, and people ask the monks for aid. Will Big Monk be able to help?

Comments: Although the monk could not read or study the Buddhist scriptures, he is able to help those around him through his simplicity, persistence, and faith.

This book is read vertically. The illustrations are created with watercolor and ink and beautifully complement the story with their gentle pastel colors.

Rating: 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

*I received a complimentary copy of this book.

Abigail has on a pink backpack, with a hat in her right hand and a walking stick in the other. She is by water looking at a waterfall.

Abigail and the Waterfall: Loving God’s Good Earth

by Sandra L. Richter (Author), Michael Corsini (Illustrator)

Summary: Every first Saturday of the month, a family hikes through the forest, appreciating the beauty of nature around them. They sit by a creek having a picnic while listening to the sound of the water. They make sure to pick up all their trash before they leave.

They continue to their favorite spot: a waterfall. After enjoying its splendor and the plants and animals that live around it, they hike back to the car, grateful for the chance to see all the beautiful plants and animals along the way.

Comments: The text is sprinkled with nature-based Bible quotes and ways that we can take care of the earth.

There is “A Note From the Author” at the back of the book on ways to take care of the earth.

Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗1/2

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

*I received a free copy of this book.

The Greatest River

by Namita Moolani Mehra (Author), Khoa Le (Illustrator)

Summary: Ananda, a young girl, listens to her sick mother talk about the legend of the Ganga, a holy river that heals those who bathe in its waters. Ananda accompanies her aunt, Maasi, to bathe in the Ganges River in India and experiences a spiritual connection.

Comments: The author’s note explains that at 13, she traveled from New York with her mother to bathe in the sacred river.

Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗1/2

Details and buying options are on this book’s Amazon page.

Kaylee Prays for the Children of the World: God Hears Every Prayer

by Helen Lee (Author), Shin Maeng (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Kaylee reads the newspaper daily with her grandfather, Halbi. While they come across funny stories and various news articles, Kaylee often worries about the children facing tragedy and hardship. They cut out those articles and pin them on a large world map on the wall. Together, she and her grandfather pray for those children.

Comments: The back includes a note from the author, who shares how she prays for others around the world.

I believe this book could enhance a parochial unit of study focused on prayers said aloud together (Tongsung kido in Korean).

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

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*I received a free copy of this book.

Penny Preaches

by Amy Dixon (Author), Rob Dixon (Author), Jennifer Davison (Illustrator)

Brief summary: Penny enjoys everything about Sundays, especially attending church. Her favorite part is hearing the sermons. Inspired, she puts together what she wants to say and preaches to her dolls and then her friends, with results she was not expecting. Couldn’t girls be preachers?

Her parents take Penny to a church next Sunday to hear Pastor Sarah. Will Penny be inspired once again to become a preacher?

Comments: An author’s note in the back section has more information on the topic.

Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗

Continue reading for more details and buying options on this book’s Amazon page.

*I was sent a complimentary copy of this book.

Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.

Log Life (Tiny Habitats)

Milkweed for Monarchs

The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants

Butterfly on the Wind

The Girl Who Loves Bugs

The Bumblebee Garden

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My Mother’s Tongues: A Weaving of Languages

Home Is a Wish

Thread by Thread

A Star Shines Through

Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States

Home in a Lunchbox

At the Drop of a Cat

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Avocado Magic

The Ocean Gardener

This Little Kitty in the Garden

Wintergarden

Garden Walk

Love Makes a Garden Grow

Linh’s Rooftop Garden (Where In the Garden?)

Watch Me Bloom: A Bouquet of Haiku Poems for Budding Naturalists

Just a Worm

George Washington Carver: More Than “The Peanut Man” (Bright Minds): More Than “The Peanut Man”

A Place for Rain

Little Land

Love Grows

Every Little Seed

A Flower is a Friend

My First Garden: For Little Gardeners Who Want to Grow

A Garden in My Hands

G is for Gardening (A Gardening ABC Primer)

City Beet

My Baba’s Garden

Inside the Compost Bin

The Bumblebee Garden

Grandma’s Roof Garden

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Echo

Evergreen

Like You, Like Me

The Quiet One

Revony Rhinoceros Starts to Smile: A Lesson in Body Language

The Taekwonderoos: Rescue at Rattling Ridge

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The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook

How Do You Eat Color?

India on a Plate!: Indian Food from A to Z

Jollof Day

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A Dandelion (A Day in the Life Of)

The Weedflower

Doe’s Dandelions (Woodland Friends)

Don’t Touch that Flower!

A Flower is a Friend

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The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement

Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day

Happy Earth Day! (My Little Golden Book About…)

The Night Before Earth Day

Dino-Earth Day (Dino-Holidays)