Staff Recommends- Picture Books

Aria loves her soft and bouncy hair, but must go to extremes to avoid people who touch it without permission until, finally, she speaks up. Includes author's note.

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

Olivia, who is very neat and practically perfect, despairs because her sister Sophia is super-completely and totally the messiest person, no matter where she goes or what she does.

"A clever little dog christens himself "Sad" when his humans fail to give him a name. Although they feed him and wash him, they don't appreciate his many gifts, like his love of singing ("stop that yapping!"). When the people move away and leave Sad behind, Sad is heartbroken. But then a new family with a young boy arrives at Sad's house in a big truck. Although Sad is initially frightened, it soon becomes clear that the boy is just the right person...

An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.

In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

Presents a linked collection of ten short stories in rhyme featuring frogs, toads, and polliwogs.