New and Noteworthy Picture Books – August 2018
Posted on behalf of Laurel, Children’s Selection Team
We are dedicated to bringing the best and brightest books to our library collections. Here are some picture books we are really excited about that will be hitting shelves soon or have just arrived.
Dress Like Mommy by Lisa Stickley.
Poppy and her mother love to wear matching outfits that bring to mind their favorite things – like bright red tomatoes, luminous limes and cloud-gray pebbles.
New Shoes by Chris Raschka.
Here’s a hole and there’s a hole and toes are getting pinched – time to get some new shoes! An everyday adventure for a young child.
Nimesh the Adventurer by Ranjit Singh. Ill. Mehrdokht Amini.
An ‘ordinary’ walk home from school turns into a globe-trotting journey fraught danger and excitement at every turn for a boy with an imagination as vivid as this book’s illustrations.
Bigger! Bigger! by Leslie Patricelli.
A junior construction worker uses blocks and imagination to build bigger and bigger structures until… CRASH! How can she save her buildings from imminent destruction?
Mommy's Khimar by Jamila Thompkins-Bigelow. Ill Ebony Glenn.
This little girl loves her mommy’s pretty headscarves. Dressing up in them she becomes a queen, a bird, a super-hero and more.
Blue Rider by Geraldo Valério
A found book on a busy sidewalk wordlessly transports a child from urban monotony to a world of colourful fantasy.
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