Melissa Iwai
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Gigi crafts her Japanese American identity in this -enchanting early reader. The cuteness, inclusivity, and cross-cultural problem-solving represented will have young -readers coming back again and again. A must-buy." -School Library Journal (starred review) "The text is well supported by the endearing illustrations, which capture all of Gigi's big emotions and depict her as a biracial child, with a white father and Japanese mother." -Booklist (starred...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lili loves to cook little dumplings called baos with her grandmother, but when cabbage is needed, Lili races up and down the stairs of her grandmother's apartment building to find the ingredient and help the other grandmothers borrow ingredients for different dumplings, from Jamaican meat patties and Italian ravioli to Lebanese fatayer and more.
6) Soup day
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A mother and child spend a snowy day together buying and preparing vegetables, assembling ingredients, and playing while their big pot of soup bubbles on the stove. Includes a recipe for "Snowy Day Vegetable Soup."
7) Pizza day
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A father and son spend a hot summer day together gathering vegetables and herbs, making pizza dough and sauce, and playing while their pizza bakes in the oven. Includes a recipe for Garden Pizza.
8) Corn aplenty
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Two children watch a local farmer grow a crop of corn and as the corn develops--from seed to harvest time--so does the friendship between the children and the farmer.
10) Wake up engines
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rhyming verses describe the sights and sounds of morning traffic as cars, trucks, and airplanes rev up their engines and go!
11) Toolbox twins
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text introduce a variety of tools, and the father and son who use them to fix everything from a squeaky step to a drawer that sticks.
12) Truck stop
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A boy and his parents prepare breakfast at their truck stop for drivers of eighteen-wheelers, tankers, moving vans, and other vehicles, while Uncle Marty checks tires and makes repairs.
14) Hope is a hop
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Eva's hopes for a cheerful flower garden are dashed by a rascally-and hungry! -rabbit, she sinks into despair. But it's from this new vantage point that she discovers something surprising and wonderful about her four-legged-nemesis that reminds Eva of her own growing family and inspires her to try again."--
Ages 3-7.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
En este libro de rimas de acostarse, vehículos de viento para pasar la noche y salen de la cama. luminosas pinturas representan un niño jugando con motores de juguete en su dormitorio, y los motores de tamaño natural en el mundo exterior. El texto calmante y grandes de cerca las imágenes de los vehículos, tales como camiones, aviones y coches de bomberos harán de este un favorito de la hora de dormir la siesta o cuento para los más pequeños...
18) Green as a bean
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Questions in verse about the many things you could be if you were square or soft or loud or red or small or fat or fierce or dark.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling authors of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Chicka Chicka, 1, 2, 3 Noah, Noah, what do you see? I see animals in the ark with me. Moses sees the Red Sea part. Daniel sees lions in the den. Mary sees baby Jesus smiling at her. Noah, Noah, What Do You See? introduces little ones to favorite Bible heroes from the Old and New Testaments. With colorful art from Melissa Iwai and the signature rhyming style of Brown...