picture books for children

Tired of his own home, a bear goes exploring, visiting animals around the world in their various habitats.

Sophie likes speaking in Hyena talk or Space language, even though her parents want her to use her words. However, when Sophie's new baby sister arrives, it is only Sophie's words that can get her to stop crying.

Uneaten and ignored, a Chinese dumpling feels like it is the ugliest dumpling in the Golden Swan Chinese Restaurant. However, one day the ugly dumpling is befriended by an encouraging cockroach, also not know for its beauty, who helps it discover its true identity and realize being different is beautiful after all.

When Teeny Tiny Toady's mother becomes trapped in a bucket, Teeny alerts her big strong brothers, but soon they are in the bucket as well. Teeny's brain gets to work and her clever plan saves the day.

Star Child wants very much to visit Earth, but his elders tell him that to do so he will have to be born a human child and endure an existence far different from what he has known.

A hearing boy and his deaf parents from Brooklyn enjoy the rides, food, and sights of 1930's Coney Island where the father longs to know about how everything sounds and his son tries to interpret the noisy surroundings through sign language and a wealth of new words learned from a trip to the library.

Sophie, a girl whose best friends are squash, attends school for the first time. She takes Bonnie and Baxter, two baby squash she grew in the garden, with her but no one appreciates her friends! One boy, Steven, wants to be friends, but Sophie isn't interested. However, soon Sophie realizes her squash friends won't last forever, and she learns what real friends are.

Sophie loves her long hair, but when it becomes too hard to manage and she decides to get it cut, she finds something generous to do with it. Includes list of organizations that make wigs from donated hair.

Rather than a lemonade stand, Rufus sets up a story stand one summer and makes a series of trades with his friends--a story for a shell, for a kitten, for a surprise, and one more as a special birthday gift for his sister.

Bear and a family of ducks try to find the perfect home to share, but what suits the bear does not suit the ducks, and what suits the ducks does not suit Bear.