Tag Archives: Family Life

Motherbridge of Love

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Xinran
Publisher: Barefoot Books

Product Description
This beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little Chinese girl and her mother, Motherbridge of Love offers a poignant and inspiring message to parents and children all over the world.

Kindergarten Rocks!

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Katie Davis
Publisher: Voyager Books

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Dexter already knows everything there is to know about kindergarten. His big sister, Jessie, told him all about it. So Dexter is not scared. Not even a little bit. But his stuffed dog, Rufus, is scared. Actually, he’s terrified. But Dexter–er, Rufus–has nothing to [...]

A Lion to Guard Us

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Book Description
`A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’ —TE. [...]

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (Miss Bindergarten Books)

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Joseph Slate
Publisher: Puffin

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On the first day of kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten must prepare her classroom for her beloved students. This noble, whimsical teacher greets her dark, summertime-empty classroom with an explosion of color–a bouquet of fall leaves, a goldfish, rolled-up posters, and shoeboxes full of no-doubt-delightful surprises. Meanwhile, her [...]

Owl Babies

Rating: (56 reviews)
Author: Martin Waddell
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
A tender tale to remind the youngest of children that Mommy always comes back.
“I want my mommy!” Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and they can’t help but wonder where she is. What is she doing? When will she be [...]

Kitten’s First Full Moon

Rating: (61 reviews)
Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow

Product Description
The Caldecott Medal winning book by Kevin Henkes.
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In this beautiful picture book, winner of the 2005 Caldecott Medal, Kevin Henkes, captures the sweet, sometimes slapstick struggle of Kitten, who sees her first full moon and thinks it’s a bowl of milk in the sky.
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You Can Do It!

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Tony Dungy
Publisher: Little Simon Inspirations

Product Description
Tony Dungy’s little brother, Linden, is a third grader who is having a bad day at school. Linden is the youngest of the Dungy family and the least motivated because he hasn’t found “it.” In a family where everyone seems to have found [...]

The Berenstain Bears and the Truth (First Time Books(R))

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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When Brother and Sister Bear accidentally break Mama’s favorite lamp, their little lie grows bigger and bigger, until Papa Bear helps them find the words that set everything right again.  

Mini Masters Boxed Set (Mini Masters)

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Julie Merberg, Suzanne Bober
Publisher: Chronicle Books

Product Description
Four beautiful board books from Chronicle Books’ best-selling Mini Masters series, all packed in a colorful box. The set includes: Dancing with Degas, A Picnic with Monet, A Magical Day with Matisse, and In the Garden with Van Gogh. Each title pairs [...]

What to Expect When the New Baby Comes Home (What to Expect Kids)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Heidi Murkoff
Publisher: HarperFestival

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Angus the Answer Dog is back! This time the ever-helpful pooch is here to help kids learn all about their new baby siblings. As in the other popular titles in Heidi Murkoff’s What to Expect Kids series, including What to Expect When Mommy’s [...]

The Flat Stanley Collection Box Set (Flat Stanley)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Stanley Lambchop is just a normal boy, with a normal younger brother named Arthur, and two normal parents. That is, until a bulletin board falls on him during the night and flattens him to half an inch thick! From this point on, Stanley will [...]

Waggit’s Tale

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Peter Howe
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
He is nameless. He is homeless. He is friendless. He is lost.
Until he is found . . . by a team of mutts who shelter him and teach him how to survive the wilds of the city park.
And so he [...]

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

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Jeremy Fink has been obsessed with the meaning of life ever since a box from his father arrived at his house five years after his father was killed in a car accident. Jeremy is determined to find the missing keys that [...]

Socks

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Socks is one happy cat….He lives with a nice young couple called Brickers who play with him, pet him, feed him treats, and always have a warm lap for him to sit in. Then a new baby joins the family Suddenly, the Brickers are sharing [...]

Heat

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If [...]

Dirt on My Shirt

Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you’ll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don’t go beep, dads in sweaters, also sheep. From the [...]

Max’s Toys (Max Board Books)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Max is an irresistibly cute but persistent little bunny who wants what he wants when he wants it–any parent with an active toddler will relate. And like most little kids, Max thinks the grass is always greener on the other side; to be more [...]

The New Baby

Rating: (39 reviews)
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
In this well-loved Little Critter picture book, our funny young hero has to get used to a new baby sister. What a problem. The baby doesn’t pay attention when Little Critter reads to her. She cries when he makes [...]

The Willoughbys

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books

Product Description
Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good oldfashioned children. Following the models set in lauded tales from A [...]