Staff Picks

Category: Kids

Find your new favorite reads with this collection of top titles curated by our expert librarians.

How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?

How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?

Mac Barnett illustrated by Jon Klassen

Mac Barnett's iconic talent for earnest deadpan humor and Jon Klassen's irresistibly funny art honor the timeless question with answers both ridiculous and plausible.

If You Make a Call On a Banana Phone

If You Make a Call On a Banana Phone

Gideon Sterer illustrator Emily Hughes

This very silly story is full of the joy and wisdom that comes from making new friends from unexpected places.

Alone

Megan E. Freeman

"When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare."

Bog Myrtle

"Two sisters, one stubbornly cheerful (Beatrice) and one relentlessly grumpy (Magnolia), live in a drafty old house with a family of helpful spiders."

John the Skeleton

John the Skeleton

"Everyone deserves a quiet, restful retirement. But for John, a newly retired classroom skeleton, life is just beginning."

I Will Read to You

I Will Read to You

"A young boy heads into the woods to read bedtime stories to vampires, witches, skeletons, and other kinds of monsters who have no one to help them to sleep"

The Skull

"This is an old story. It is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has"

Invisible Things

Invisible Things

"This creatively wacky and interactive exploration of the abstract concepts of the human experience, such as feelings and thoughts, encourages readers to look past the visible"

Touch the Brightest Star

Touch the Brightest Star

Christie Matheson

A charming book that touches on the magic of the night through rhyming prose and beautiful blue hued illustrations.

Twenty Questions

Twenty Questions

"Twenty Questions is a charming invitation to speculate without limits and know no bounds." Illustrated by Chirstian Robinson

The Wolf Suit

"Bellwether Riggwelter is out of blackberries. While he loves gathering treats and roaming the forest, he dreads running into the very dangerous wolves."

Hocus Pocus

"After accidentally bringing the Sanderson Sisters back from the dead, Max, Dani, and Allison race to stop their plans to torment Salem for all of eternity." Illustrated by Gris Grimly

What's Hidden in the Sky: Animal Constellations Around the World

What's Hidden in the Sky: Animal Constellations Around the World

Let this enchanting book take you into the homes of children all over the world, and guess the answer to eight riddles about the stars overhead.

A is for Bee: An Alphabet Book In Translation

A is for Bee: An Alphabet Book In Translation

A guide for the aspirant bike rider all the way from choosing a first bike to techniques for wheelies and bunny hops

The Young Cyclist's Companion

The Young Cyclist's Companion

This is a guide for the aspirant bike rider all the way from choosing a first bike to techniques for wheelies and bunny hops.

The Stars Did Wander Darkling

The Stars Did Wander Darkling

An ancient, long-buried evil has been unleashed upon the community, and it's up to the kids to stop it before it's too late!

Night Lunch

In a horse-drawn cart that arrives at night, short-order cook Owl prepares delicious meals for his nocturnal patrons, including a fox, a badger, some possums, and a poor mouse who sweeps the streets.

Clover

Making decisions, even choosing something to do, is a great source of hesitation for young Clover. But, when her goat wanders away she quickly make a decision to search for it.

Those Magnificent Flying Sheep

Those Magnificent Flying Sheep

Tired of standing still on their old hill, several sheep board an airplane for a round-the-world adventure.

Narwhal and the Jelly

Narwhal and the Jelly

Happy-go-lucky Narwhal and no-nonsense Jelly find their inner superheroes in three new under-the-sea adventures.

A Mind Like Mine

A Mind Like Mine

Meet 21 incredible figures with a variety of mental health conditions from throughout history right up to the present day

The World's Most Ridiculous Animals: Or are They?

The World's Most Ridiculous Animals: Or are They?

Phillip Bunting

Our planet is home to countless species of wild and wonderful animals, each beautifully adapted to thrive in their little corner of the world. Meet the solar-powered sea slug.

Everywhere With You

Everywhere With You

Carlie Sorosiak

Two houses stand side by side: one is home to a dog, the other to a young girl. Though a fence divides them, girl and dog build a sweet and sturdy friendship rooted in make-believe.

Supposing

A child imagines many silly, impossible, and even naughty things and their possible consequences, from learning unusual languages to building a tiny boat and sailing around the world.

Wee Witches

This ABC primer is a playful and richly symbolic introduction to the world of Wicca and the magic of Nature.

Just Because

When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.

What Feelings Do When No One's Looking

What Feelings Do When No One's Looking

Taking in the perfect harmony of this book is like taking a long gulp from a trusty thermos and filling up with warmth. What Feelings Do When No One's Looking surprises and soothes, inspires us to fee

Skater Cielo

Rachel Katstaller

Cielo loves to skateboard, but loses her confidence after a fall, until the intervention of some new friends helps her regains her confidence.

I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story

I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story

A poop-loving dung beetle learns not to hide the quirks that make him special.

Mushroom Rain

Laura K. Zimmerman

Through lyrical text and colorful detailed artwork, the mysterious and sometimes bizarre world of mushrooms is explored. Back matter includes a glossary and science facts.