New Picture Books for the Week

The Red Hen

By: Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley

Red Hen finds a recipe for a Simply Splendid Cake and asks her friends the cat, the rat, and the frog to help with the preparations. But it seems as though her friends want no part in the cake until it's ready to eat. Will they decide to pitch in, or let Red Hen do all of the hard work?

Let's Count Goats!

By: Mem Fox

The reader is invited to count goats of many shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions.

A Bedtime for Bear

By: Bonny Becker

A small but effervescent overnight guest tries the patience of a curmudgeonly bear who needs absolute quiet to fall asleep.

Interrupting Chicken

By: David Ezra Stein

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

Calvin Can't Fly

By: Jennifer Berne

A young starling chooses to read books when his cousins are learning to fly, and the knowledge he acquires comes in handy when a hurricane threatens the flock's migration.

Dinosaur VS the Potty

By: Bob Shea

Dinosaur doesn't need to use the potty. Even when making lemonade, running through the sprinkler, splashing in puddles, playing in the water... But wait, is that a victory dance or something else?

Emily's New Friend

By: Cindy Post Senning

Emily and a new neighbor become friends by treating one another with generosity, kindness, and good manners. Includes a note for parents on the importance of teaching principles of etiquette at home.

My Mommy Hung the Moon

By: Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
A hard-working mother's extraordinary accomplishments are listed by her devoted child.

Where are you Bear?

By: Frieda Wishinsky

Sophie is excited to visit her Grandma in Vancouver. But when it comes time to leave home in Newfoundland, she cant find her best friend Bear. Bear watches her departure sadly from the window and vows to find her again one day. For the remainder of the book, Sophies travels, depicted on the left-hand page, are parallelled by Bears own on the right-hand page.