NEW Books for Kids @WPL

If you’ve never stopped to check out the shelves containing our newest purchases — some “old favorites” in new, shiny covers and some hot off the press — we invite you to stroll straight ahead under the rainbow into our Children’s Room and look for a large butterfly high on the wall, pointing the way to our “New Books”!

Here are some of our very most recent treasures (click on each title for more information):

*Rejoin the author and illustrator of Goodnight Moon to explore things big and little in a re-issue of their 1938 classic, Bumble Bugs and Elephants.

*What happens when your dinner decides it doesn’t want to be eaten?  Find out in The Runaway Dinner by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman!

*Even dragons, it turns out, find things are easier when you know how to READ, according to Take Care, Good Knight, by Shelley Moore Thomas (hilariously illustrated by Paul Meisel).

*Simple text (nice for new readers) and Maxwell Eaton’s colorful, inviting pictures take us into the world of a couple of Best Buds: a boy named Max and his silly pig, Pinky. (But better hide the marshmallows!)

*Princess Isabella is mighty tired of having to dress up and have her hair curled.  Find out (in Cornelia Funke’s delightful new picture book, illustrated by Kerstin Meyer) how she succeeds in earning the nickname Princess Pigsty—and how her royal parents learn a thing or two in the process!

*”The Wild Old Days of Baseball” are the subject of Hey Batta Batta Swing, by Sally Cook and James Charlton, with charming, old-timey illustrations to go with all the juicy historical tidbits about America’s favorite game.

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