Picture books just for fun

Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri

The goose, hen, chick and others are painting everything. The book starts out with no color except the animals, who begin to paint and mix colors. By the end of the story, everything is colorful.
Great book for kids learning colors. I love all of Nancy Tafuri's books!
Most are perfect for preschoolers.




The Chicken of the Family by Mary Amato
This book appealed to both the teasing-sibling and the chicken-lover in me. Big sisters are teasing Henrietta, telling her she is really a chicken. They pull her feathers out while she sleeps, the eggs the gather are really found in her bed in the morning, and more. Henrietta decides to
go out and join the chickens in Farmer Barney's chicken yard and discovers she likes chickens. Big sisters find her there, and after some discussion, they decide to try being chickens, too. All ages.





Drive by Nathan Clement
Here is the latest, greatest, preschooler, truck driver book. Text is very simple. So are the great illustrations. Add The Trucker by Brenda Weatherby for another special truck driver picture book. Perfect for preschoolers who love things with wheels.








Wee Little Chick by Lauren Thompson

All the farmyard animals keep talking about how little the chick is, but this little chick keeps doing big things. John Butler does the delightful up-close illustrations. He has written and illustrated a number of books himself, also with animals. For preschoolers and anyone who feels too little to do anything.





Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I love quirky stories, and I am partial to books with lots of white space, like this one. Little Hoot is a happy owl, until all his friends go to bed and HE has to stay up late. After all, he is an owl. We get to see what he does during that extra hour he is required to stay up, as well as his thought that when he grows up, his kids can go to bed as early as they want.

Do not miss this author's first book, Little Pea. It is laugh out loud funny! All ages.



Help Me, Mr. Mutt! by Janet Stevens

This dog writes an advice column and gets letters from fat dogs that have been put on diets, bored dogs who want to play, dogs who bark,
dogs who are really big and want to sleep on the bed, and more. The
advice columnist dog usually includes a P.S. about what to do with the
pesky cat in the house. The advice given is hilarious, the notes from
the cat add to the story that begins on the front end papers, and end
on the back end papers.

Janet writes the stories and her sister, Susan Stevens Crummel does the illustrations. They are wonderfully funny gals, and so are their stories. The Great Fuzz Frenzy and Jackalope are two of my favorites.


Trainstop by Barbara Lehman

This author illustrator is specializing in wordless books, and they are fabulous excursions into imaginative worlds. In this story, everyone falls asleep on the train, except the little girl, who gets off at the trainstop and helps tiny little people with their problems. Her other books, Rainstorm, Museum Visit and The Red Book are all great. She won a Caldecott Honor for The Red Book.