Little Blue Truck’s Valentine by Alice Schertle

Little Blue Truck delivers Valentine’s Day cards to all his farm animal friends. (Ages 4 and up)

Feliz Navidad! Little Blue Truck is spreading cheer by delivering Christmas trees to his animal friends. Can you help count each green tree from one to five and back again? Don’t forget to save one for El camioncito Azul! Now available in Spanish, Little Blue Truck’s Christmas adventure is full of holiday warmth. Compact and child-friendly text and beautiful images come together in a book that’s sure to be the favorite treat of the season.

Explore the world of such a little mouse–from the bestselling author of LITTLE BLUE TRUCK! “And way down deep in the holelives a mouse.Such a little mouse,with his smart gray coat,with his ears pink as petals,with three twitchety whiskerson each side of his nose.”With Alice Schertle’s sweet descriptive language and touching illustrations from Stephanie Yue, a little mouse interacts with the world around him. Every season of the year, “such a little mouse” pops out of his hole and goes out to explore the wider world.

Librarians will welcome the return of this popular character. Kirkus Reviews, starred review Readers who love Martin Bridge and Nate the Great will find a new easy-to-read friend in Jeremy Bean. The Horn Book Magazine A fine choice for beginning-chapter-book collections. School Library Journal

What do you do when your teacher assigns you ten pages of homework, a raptor swoops down and grabs you, and you suddenly find yourself all alone in the jungle about to be swallowed by a python? When you’re Digby, the solution to every problem is in your backpack.

A small blue truck finds his way out of a jam, with a little help from his friends.

All through the year, this shaggy, raggy, rumbly, bumbly bear faces down whatever comes his way: bee stings and scolding squirrels, cold rushing rivers and prickly bushes. And he does it all with a spring in his step and a smile on his face. There’s just one thing he can’t abide. Luckily, he knows exactly what to do about it. Season by season, Alice Schertle and Matt Phelan lead us through a year in the life of a charming, resourceful, and quite hairy bear.

PIO PEEP! BOOK AND CD Alma Flor Ada’s groundbreaking bilingual collection of rhymes from Spain and Latin America repackaged with a compact disc containing recordings of the included pieces.

In this counting rhyme, an affectionate elephant family plays together.

Daddy’s arms are warm and wide. Someone snuggles up inside to watch the moon wrap silver light around the wide and wakeful night. Baby can’t sleep tonight, and Daddy has a plan to relax them both: a nice moonlit walk. But it’s not just baby and Daddy who are out and about. The night has an entire cast of friendly animals that hoot, tussle, and snoop when the moon is high. Alice Schertle’s wonderful guess-who poem is matched perfectly with Julia Noonan’s dreamy illustrations in this soothing bedtime promenade.

Teddy bears of every kind, Bears with pull strings, Bears you wind, Bears that roller-skate, Bears that sing, Bears that don’t do anything. Get ready to cuddle up with your favorite furry friend, and meet the cast of utterly captivating teddies that inhabit Christopher Award-winning author Alice Schertle’s cozy verse and Linda Hill Griffith’s irresistible paintings. If you have ever loved a teddy bear, this is the book for you!

After following her ten toys in a parade through the house, Hattie explains why each of them needs to sleep with her in her bed, in a bedtime tale first published in 1985.

Lists everything that one needs to build the perfect snowman, from the very first snowflake that falls.

Mama and Papa agree that eggs for breakfast would be nice, but they’re too busy to go to the store. So they decide that Hetty is old enough to go by herself. Although she practices walking smoothly up the hill so she won’t break the precious eggs, she can’t help running all the way down. Young readers will hold their breath as Hetty tries her very best to get those eggs home safely. “The story is remarkable for its evocative imagery, and the loving interchange between the characters sets a charming tone. The words are perfectly complemented by Lewis’s dazzling, impressionistic watercolors that show the joyous power of love and depict a warmly supportive world in which Hetty ventures forth toward independence. A fine book that speaks straight to the heart.”–Booklist

Summary: A book of poems about cows.

A young boy uses a witch hazel branch to make a scarecrow and has a mysterious encounter on the night of the harvest moon.

William and Grandpa enjoy doing the things Grandpa did when he was a little boy, such as trying to jump on their shadows, watching the stars from the roof of the house, and drinking hot chocolate.

Bim becomes the hero of the hour when evil Weevil Sneekins makes off with the moving van which holds all the Dooley family’s earthly possesions.

Searching for a human slave to take the place of his skeleton friend, Hob Goblin visits a town on Halloween.

Many fools try to take the king’s mind off his aching feet but only the April Fool succeeds in finding a remedy that helps the king’s feet and his disposition.