Staff Picks

Category: Kids

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

Carli

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.

Carli

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

Carli

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.

Carli

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!

Carli

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.

Carli

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.

Tracy

Those Magnificent Flying Sheep

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

Crisanne

Narwhal and the Jelly

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

Carli

A Mind Like Mine

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

Carli

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.

Carli

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.

Carli

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.

Carli

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

Carli

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.

Carli

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

Carli

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.

Crisanne

I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story

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

Jeanne

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.

Carli

Star Child wants very much to visit Earth, but his elders tell him that to do so he will have to be born a human child and endure an existence far different from what he has known.

Carli

I Will Not Eat You

A dragon resists the urge to eat the animals that approach his cave.

Carli

How To Be Cooler Than Cool

Follows a savvy little chick who shows all the other animal poseurs on the playground that being cool means just having fun.

Carli

Matthew Forsythe

Mina the mouse is very upset when her father brings home a pet "squirrel" that she is certain is a cat.

Carli

Both Leo and his father are angry and sad when their landlord says their old house will be torn down, but soon they find a way to make their new house feel like home.

Carli

Tough Guys (Have Feelings too)

Explains through simple text and colorful illustrations that tough guys have the same feelings as you and I.

Carli

Bear Wants to Sing

When Bear finds a ukulele in the woods, he is inspired to write his own song, but only his best friend Mouse appreciates his endeavor, in this delightful picture book companion to King Mouse.

Gloria

One Summer up North

A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty

Jeanne

This presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. It is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader.

Jeanne

Spooky Classics for Children

Suspense, laughter and plenty of plot twists in tales from Wilde, Hawthorne and Kipling.

Jeanne

The Giant of Jum

A hungry giant wants to eat Jack for a snack but is waylaid by other children who need his help.

Jeanne

The First Blade of Sweetgrass: a Native American Story

Suzanne Greenlaw

In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making