Looking for a new way to view the world? Take a look at these
Duck! Rabbit!
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrator: Tom Lichtenheld
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 7
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No matter which way you look at it, it’s a duck…and a rabbit! A brilliant book that takes “seeing is believing” to a whole new level – it just depends on who you ask! ☺
Awards: Monarch Award 2012 Master List; Grand Canyon Reader Award 2012 Winner; Winner, 2011 Utah Beehive Award; Read at the 2010 White House Easter Egg Roll; 2010 Baker’s Dozen (13 best books for Family Literacy) by Pennsylvania Center for the Book; American Library Association Notable Children’s Book of 2010; Time Magazine Top Ten Children’s Book of 2009, #1; Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2009; Barnes & Noble Best Kids’ Books of 2009; 2009 iParenting Media Award Winner – Book Category; National Parenting Publications Awards 2009 – Gold Award; IndieBound Summer 2009 Top-10 Indie Next Kids’ Pick; Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, 2009 Best Book Award – Gold; Booklist 2009 Editors’ Choice; About.com’s Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009; A Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner; A Scholastic Instructor Best Book of the Year
Fortunately, Unfortunately
Author: Michael Foreman
Illustrator: Michael Foreman
Publisher: Andersen Press
Recommended Age Range: 4 to 8
Fortunately, Unfortunately is one of those books that shows that sometimes good luck is not so good, and bad, not so bad. A humorous and enjoyable book that really engages young children.
Inside Outside
Author: Lizi Boyd
Illustrator: Lizi Boyd
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 5
Take a look at Inside Outside and you won’t be disappointed. Through the seasons, one child creates and explores his indoor, and outdoor, worlds with windows revealing just what is waiting with each turn of the page.
A great book to inspire new ideas and activities for your child.
Awards: 2014 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens – Up to Seven (Recommended)
LOOK!
Author: Edouard Manceau
Illustrator: Edouard Manceau
Publisher: Owlkids Books
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 7
Some titles simply don’t need an introduction; LOOK! is one of them. With a rectangular cut-out, and questions to stir the imagination, your child is destined to explore, discover, and “see” the everyday just a little bit differently. Wonderful!
Re-Zoom and Zoom
Author: Istvan Banyai
Illustrator: Istvan Banyai
Publisher: Puffin Books, Penguin Group (Pbk.)
Recommended Age Range: 5 to 8
Two brilliant books that take one picture and, by “zooming out,” move the stories in a new and very unique direction. Be prepared to be surprised! Unexpected adventures ahead!
Awards: Zoom – One of the Best Children’s Books of the Year, New York Times; One of the Best Children’s Books of the Year, Publishers Weekly; International Reading Association (IRA) Children’s Choice Award
The Book About Nothing
Author: Mike Bender
Illustrator: Hugh Murphy
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers, an Imprint of Random House Children’s Books
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 7
Awards: A Junior Library Guild Selection
They All Saw a Cat
Author: Brendan Wenzel
Illustrator: Brendan Wenzel
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 5
Awards: A Caldecott Honor Book, 2017
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What Do You See? A Conversation in Pictures
Author: Barney Saltzberg
Illustrator: Jamie Lee Curtis (Photographer)
Publisher: Creston Books, LLC
Recommended Age Range: 4 to 8