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Baby Loves
Illustrated by Mary Cassatt
Atheneum 2003
Ages: All ages
Topic: Gifts for the New Baby
American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt conveys the exuberant love mothers feel for their new baby with her impressionist paintings of a baby clapping hands, drinking milk, feeding ducks or kissing mommy good night. MORE...
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The Water Hole
by Graeme Base
Harry N Abrams 2001
Ages: All ages
Topic: Books You'll Want to Give as Gifts to Everyone
You won't want to miss this ingenious combination of a counting book, art book, animal book and first geography book. MORE...
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger
Minedition 2006
Ages: All ages
Topic: Books You'll Want to Give as Gifts to Everyone
Topic: Fairy Tales
Every family should own this exquisite collection of stories by Hans Christian Anderson whose 200th birthday we celebrate this year. Stories such as The Princess and the Pea, The Nightingale, The Little Match Girl, The Emperor's New Clothes, should be familiar to your child as well as some new ones. MORE...
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My Mother Is So Smart
by Tomie dePaola
G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
Ages: All ages
Topic: Books You'll Want to Give as Gifts to Everyone
In this perfect Mother's Day book, Caldecott-award winning Tomie dePaola acknowledges the gifts that mothers have as he sings praises to their different skills. The child recognizes all his mother's talents, for example, "My mother is so smart...She taught the whole neighborhood how to sing, 'Row, row, row your boat.'" Each phrase recognizes all the little things that make a big difference in a child's life. A tribute to mothers everywhere. MORE...
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Handsprings
by Douglas Florian
Illustrated by Douglas Florian
Greenwillow 2006
Ages: All ages
Topic: Poems and Rhymes
Filled with poems and child-like drawings, this is a perfect book to welcome spring.
"Sometimes warm
And sometimes chilly
Spring is silly daffodilly"
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A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
by Caroline Kennedy
Illustrated by John J. Muth
Hyperion 2005
Ages: All ages
Topic: Poems and Rhymes
This collection of more than 100 poems selected so thoughtfully by Caroline Kennedy and framed into sections (About me, That's So Silly, The Seashore, Adventure, Animals, The Seasons and Bedtime) is a family treasure you must own. MORE...
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Museum Trip
by Barbara Lehman
Houghton Mifflin 2006
Ages: All ages
Topic: Books without Words
A little boy goes to a museum with his class and gets separated from the others. He imagines that he becomes a part of the exhibits and finally, he hears his classmates in the room next to him and joins them, just in time to board the school bus. MORE...
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The Birthday Ball
by Lois Lowry
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2010
Ages: All ages
Topic: Great Read Alouds: Stories You Won't Want to Miss
"Please don't be so vicious, Delicious" pleads Princess Patricia Priscilla to her cat when she is so terribly bored with her royal life. In this amusing novel, a perfect read-aloud for 8+ readers and adults, we see the princess change places with her chambermaid and attend the village school in disguise. The events humorously build up as she has to choose a suitor from an unsuitable group of young men for her 16th birthday ball. We delight in a surprising ending and the values and friendships between the characters this marvelous story holds for its readers. Not to forget the engaging pen and ink illustrations by Jules Feiffer that bring these characters to life. MORE...
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Winter's Tale : An Original Pop-up Journey
by Robert Sabuda
Little Simon 2005
Ages: All ages
Topic: Books You'll Want to Give as Gifts to Everyone
This is a dream of a book about winter landscaoes with dazzling spare white intricate pop ups set against a background of sparkly, shiny papers. The art work is stunning, but delicate and the story is simple. This elegant book will dazzle you and amaze you as you look at it together. MORE...
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The Treasure
by Uri Shulevitz
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1979
Ages: All ages
Topic: Books You'll Want to Give as Gifts to Everyone
Breathtaking watercolors in earthy colors combine with the story of Isaac, who is told in a dream to find his treasure. He searches the world on a long journey, only to be surprised when he returns home. The greatest "treasures" are often those we forget we have (family, friends, love) and what could be a better reminder than this touching, beautiful story? MORE...
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