picture books

Celebrates the work of librarians in the twentieth-century American South who delivered books to remote families by horseback. Follows librarian Anna Mary and her horse, Sand, as they travel through rural Kentucky providing books to children. Includes an author's note.

An interactive picture book in which the reader follows a narrator's directions to use their hand to tap, swirl, and swoosh along to the colorful illustrations.

Jes?s is helping his father with his job as a gardener, and his father puts him in charge of the magical water-jug clock that tells them how much work they have left to do. It's a hot summer day, and Jes?s makes sure he and his father are hydrated and gives some water to the thirsty pets at the houses they visit. When the water jug is empty, Jes?s thinks it's time to go home, but it's only 10:30 in the morning and they still have eleven houses to visit. His father explains that the water jug isn't really a magical clock, he was just trying to make the workday fun for Jes?s. They refill the jug, and Jes?s is careful not to waste the water they do have.

Tim loves exploring nature and recording all his observations in a nature journal just like his dad did when he was a boy. But when his dad is too busy to look at his findings one day, Tim climbs up into the attic to where his dad's old scrapbooks and journals are kept. He soon falls asleep and dreams of joining his dad on all his adventures, and when he wakes up, he scribbles down his dreams so he won't forget a single one. His dad finds him in the attic and apologizes for being busy all day, and he promises they can add some pages tomorrow.

One day, Fern receives a letter, and she can't help but worry about what's inside. Her friend Fawn encourages her to open it, and she discovers an invitation to a special surprise at the museum. Fern doesn't like surprises, so Fawn offers to come with her, and Fern reluctantly agrees. Along the way, Fern can't help but worry about other things, but Fawn manages to quell her fears and provides some imaginative solutions to her anxieties.

A girl and her father are outside playing one day when first one, then another, and soon a whole pit-a-patter of raindrops starts to fall. The droops, plops, dots, and drips increase as they speed home and find fun and creative things to do inside together waiting out the rain.

"A biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who served as a translator for the Lewis and Clark Expedition"--Provided by publisher.

"The story of Helen Keller, who learned to read and write despite being deaf and blind, and became an activist who fought for the rights of disabled people"--Provided by publisher.

At Hanukkah, Ava uses her family's stories about their personalized menorahs to inspire the making of her own menorah.

Presents the story of a handyman for a school named Mr. Quigley who also was a Navy veteran, whose war injury left him deaf.