Picture Book Lists

In the block area at school children can be anything and build anything using their imaginations. (description from catalog)

Melia is scientific and loves to create things in her backyard laboratory, but something is missing. Her inventions just aren't quite right. Enter Jo, her new friend with an artistic spirit. When you add the arts to sciences, something magical happens! (description from catalog)

A group of monarch butterflies that is getting ready to migrate demonstrates how to count by tens and provides facts about monarch butterflies. (description from catalog)

Max and his brothers drive to Shapeville and Count Town searching for problems, and are able to use their skills in arithmetic and sleuthing to help get things ready for a rocket launch. (description from catalog)

Briefly describes the steps in building a house. (description from catalog)

Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! A seamless blend of science and art, this picture book reveals the composition of our world and beyond -- and how we are all the stuff of stars. (description from catalog)

"An angry, destructive tornado picks up an empathetic cow, and when Cow politely asks to be put down, the two enter a conversation that has some unforeseen results." (description from catalog)

While visiting her grandparents, who run whale-watching tours in Jamaica, Rocket sees first-hand how plastic is harming ocean creatures, and organizes a crew to clean up the local beach. (description from catalog)

Aspiring astronaut Rocket draws her community together to see a rare appearance of the Phoenix Meteor Showers, hoping especially that her big brother, Jamal, will look up from his phone. (description from catalog)

Introduction to number concepts. (description from catalog)

A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read. (description from catalog)

Charlie and Lola choose a single treat at the store, count ladybugs, note the lateness of the time, and are introduced to other simple math concepts. (description from catalog)

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book. (description from catalog)

Telling a story about pigeons should be simple. But what's a narrator to do when the number of feathered friends is constantly changing? (description from catalog)

From poplars to pines, alder, apple, peach, and plum, this rhyming story introduces the concept of orders of magnitude and celebrates the importance of planting different trees and preserving diverse ecosystems. Nurturing a new sapling is one of the first steps in growing hundreds, millions, even trillions of trees. (description provided by the publisher)

In rhyming text, illustrates through the concept of DNA how we are all part of the human race. (description from catalog)

Two little birds make their first grand migration south, and later return home to start new families. (description from catalog)

Cece, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend Isaac conduct experiments to see whether Cece's dog Einstein will eat his vegetables. (description from catalog)

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup. (description from catalog)

A look at the numbers that surround us, big and small, on earth and in outer space, (description provided by the publisher)

Beginning as the sun is high in the sky and ending as fireflies blink and the moon rises above, this backyard tour is one no child will want to miss. (description from catalog)

"Two curious bunnies enjoy watching clouds go by. But when they look at the sky, they see something completely different! While one bunny likes to use his imagination the other bunny can only see the scientific. Together they learn that cloud watching is much more fun when they see it through each other's eyes"-- Provided by publisher.

Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. (description provided by the publisher)

From cloud to puddle, and puddle to stream, Little Raindrop is making its way on the remarkable journey that is Earth's water cycle. (description provided by the publisher)

Rhymed text describes how shapes are made from simple lines. Some of the verses appear on the page in the shape they describe. (description from catalog)

Follow a little fish on her epic journey downriver, as she travels into the unknown. As the river winds through mountains, forests, and plains, the little fish swims on. (description from catalog)

When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons. (description from catalog)

Two wooden dolls rearrange wooden building blocks to form various objects. (description from catalog)

Children explore their five senses, learning what they can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste. (description from catalog)

It's Rashin's first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she's used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! (description from catalog)

This lyrical picture book celebrates all the wonder and beauty in the natural world, featuring Mother Nature personified. (description provided by the publisher)

A young chart maker faces a challenge when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home. (description from catalog)

This comical counting adventure follows one hundred mighty dragons all named Broccoli as they each embark on their own journey until there's one dragon left, who retreats to a cave for the winter and reemerges in the spring with a special surprise. (description from catalog)

When Gertie moves in next door with fancy toys and a huge television set, Molly shares lessons she learned from her grandmother about home-made playthings and imagination. (description from catalog)

Die-cut pages invite reader to explore how Earth is a friend to all creatures, watching over us as the year cycles through the seasons. (description from catalog)

Two bugs, Ralph and Flora, try to divide thirteen beans so that the unlucky thirteenth bean disappears, but they soon discover that the math is not so easy. (description from catalog)

This book takes readers on a journey through the wonders concealed in the curves of the canyon, and all the secret life hidden in its arms. (description provided by the publisher)

Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter. (description from catalog)

Celebrates the forms of life that live above and under a pond, including turtles, red-winged blackbirds, blue herons, minnows, frogs, and catfish. (description from catalog)

When Trapezoid auditions for the Shapes in Space play, Triangle, Star, and all the other shapes insist that he sounds like a some kind of dinosaur and certainly does not fit in with them. (description from catalog)

How can Peg and Cat make half a pizza pie when they don't know what half is? (description provided by the publisher)

"Dr. Morley and her team arrive in the Arctic Circle, where they encounter such wonders as playful orcas, the glowing aurora borealis, and formidable ice shelves while searching for the giant Arctic jellyfish, a legendary creature no one has ever seen." (description from catalog)

An introduction to the six simple machines--the screw, lever, wedge, pulley, inclined plane, and the wheel and axle--and examples of how they are used in real life. (description provided by the publisher)

This engaging and educational picture book about protecting our waterways follows a classroom as they build a rain garden, empowering readers with the tools to reduce pollution, diminish flooding and create a habitat for wildlife. Published from Catalog.

A picture book about transformations. (description from catalog)

When Maxine's school puts on a pet parade, she creates a unique contraption to allow her very special pet fish, Milton, to participate. (description from catalog)

A child creates a world of his own which has mountains and sea, a city and ships, all from toy blocks. (description from catalog)

A boy is inspired by a pet fish and fueled by imagination to tell a whimsical version of his own life story, which mirrors the process of human evolution. (description from Amazon)

When Mouse and Elephant decide to go on the seesaw, Mouse needs a lot of help from other animals before they can go up and down. (description from catalog)

Jack describes the kind of car he would build--one with amazing accessories and with the capability of traveling on land, in the air, and on and under the sea. (description from catalog)

A mother and son have fun exploring the life in and around a freshwater pond. (description provided by staff)

Grandad bakes Grandma a whopper of a birthday cake. Includes recipe and directions for chocolate cake. (description from catalog)

Over the course of a year, a young child and their dog watch kingfishers by the river with Grandpa. As spring turns to summer and autumn to winter, the kingfishers raise a family, while Grandpa teaches his grandchild about the power of nature and the circle of life. Written in memory of her father, whose favorite bird was the kingfisher, Anna Wilson takes readers on a lyrical journey through a year in the life of a kingfisher family. Stunning illustrations by Sarah Massini bring the riverbank to life in all its glory, while the powerful, intergenerational bond between grandparent and grandchild shows that just as spring always follows winter, hope will always return if you know where to look for it. A positive story about life, death, and being a part ofthe natural world"-- Provided by publisher.