Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Picture Book Neighborhoods: Community-History


 This section hasn't changed much since I first created it. I originally had the all the biographies together, and separate Dewey numbers for different places, but as I looked at how the collection grew it made more sense to group world history together and separate out the US history more. Biographies are intershelved, but given a cutter of the subject rather than the author. US holidays are included in US history with an additional cutter of HOL and I also have some series nonfiction about US symbols that are together under SYM. Originally I had Wisconsin only in 977, but the limited number of state-specific books made it easier to just put general Midwest-themed items here.

900 - World History, fiction, nonfiction, and biographies

970 - US Sports - historical

973 - US History - nonfiction and biographies

977 - Midwest history - fiction and nonfiction

US historical fiction and tales



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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Summer Reading 2026

I kept the basic outline of summer reading from last year, but I made a few changes to make the programs more self-sufficient and sustainable.

Our adult summer reading program is separately run, with different dates - it's a fairly traditional program with a log to fill in and tickets for drawing prizes solicited from local businesses. High school students can opt to join the adult program and a few do every year, but I don't particularly track it.

We're using iRead's theme, Plant a Seed, Read, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

The general "Youth Summer Reading" brochure is an 11x17 page, folded in half. The front page lists all the summer reading programs and the main change I made to this was to take away the specific dates so I could print a large number of these and reuse them every year. I also received permission from the Friends of the Library to include a coupon for a free book from their bookstore. The other three pages are summer reading logs from Everyday Reading.

This brochure is distributed to all three elementary schools and the four year old kindergartens. There's no registration or staff component - people just take it and fill in the reading logs as they choose. Part of this main program is that there is a choice between two activity kits each week during summer reading. We try to make one aimed at older kids and one at younger kids. My associate is largely in charge of these - in the past, the teen volunteers have helped pack them, but we are not really doing that this year b/c of *waves hands* everything going on.

The Youth Summer Reading Challenge was changed from a booklet to individual bookmarks this year. Most of these can be completed and turned in for croc shoe charms, but I have a few tickets and passes, provided via our consortium. There was one that I used to handle and I turned that over to our consultant this year and I am SO GLAD I did! I completely overhauled all the challenges and my associate then reworked all of the designs.

The other way I adapted these this year was making them double as tickets for drawings. In the past, I've had a lot of misc. prizes donated and I did a raffle drawing with tickets in August. I have always detested any kind of prize drawings for kids and thought I had gotten rid of the whole concept years ago. However, very nice people persisted in giving me prizes. I think (hope?) I have finally got a workable solution - I will put out a picture of a prize each week and kids can put their reading challenges in as tickets then the winner will be drawn the following week. No lengthy anticipation, no prize sitting there to be cried over, short, sweet, and simple. I hope.

For the tweens/teens, I made a few tweaks. I've gone back and forth on what age can do the teen program - most of our participants are middle schoolers and they're the ones who are most interested in it. However, we had a lot of issues with younger kids wanting the teen prizes, teens giving their prizes to younger siblings, and kids wanting to spin the prize wheel. This year we kept our bingo sheet, with some minor changes in content, but most importantly in the new space the teen prizes will be kept in a storage room so they won't be visible to the younger kids.











The teen prizes are all pretty small - I have books (I couldn't find most of my stash of prize books so I got some new ones from Book Depot), stickers, candy, fidgets, etc. Most items are around 50 cents apiece.

I am hoping the updates will stay good for the next several years, or until I've run out of all the summer brochures I had printed! We may not have drawing prizes every week, but I'm ok with that. I do get occasional requests for a more "traditional" program, but one of the great things about being in an area with a lot of libraries is that folks can find just the right one for their needs and wants and there's always something for everybody.

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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Mid-May Update


 Well, we're two weeks into May and we have survived. I still have not even started any of the summer reading prep but oh well. Our department to-do list was becoming unwieldy and I and my staff were getting overwhelmed, so I broke it down into smaller increments, put a lot of things on the back burner, and reminded them (and myself) that we do not have to have the entire summer planned and ready to go, just the first week or two!

So far this month we have cleared out the Activity Room (the construction project manager moved out of the temporary office he was using and we moved the last of the furniture in there), repainted the Quiet Room (twice - turns out the paint was NOT the same color as the walls and we couldn't just touch up sections), and cleared out the last of the supplies that were lying around. Mostly by shoving them into the Create Space.

I rewrote all of the text for the website, our welcome to the department brochure, and wrote material for the new newsletter. My associate then completely redid all of the youth sections of the website and updated the brochure. She's in the process of creating the newsletter. I also realized that there was a lot of confusion over summer events - we partner with a school organization and this summer we are doing a lot with our rec department and people were confused that some events were listed and some weren't and anyways we bumped up a back burner project and my associate created a community calendar. This is just a beginning - we eventually hope to add more community events in general, and she did an amazing job!

I finished the sports in my nonfiction weeding - only the 800s and 900s left to go, and I whittled down the pile of YA nonfiction as well (I went from 5 ranges to 1 and all the extra books have been in storage). I also managed to send May orders, with a separate order for teen materials after the TAB meeting, and also ordered the last of the replacements for our damaged items from the roof leak several months ago.

We've had 14 field trips so far, ranging in age from 4 year old kindergarten to 5th grade and in size from 10-75. It's been exhausting, but the kids are very excited about the new department and it's good to see them enjoy free play time. We debuted a new afternoon storytime - two of our Board members who are also teachers are running it and they went from 6 at the first one to 26 at the second! I also had a big group of (mostly middle school) teens at our Teen Advisory Board meeting and they had lots of suggestions for programs, displays, and decorating the Teen Space and they all took piles of books. Our school collaborator offered the first storytime at the library - she will resume in summer. Unfortunately, all of the issues with the program spaces that I've previously brought up were front and center and although people enjoyed it and we had new faces, it was definitely not ideal. The spaces are workable for a small group like 26 kids and parents. They're not functional for 70 kids and parents, with most of those being toddlers. We spent a long time looking at different resolutions and figured out a solution so she will still be able to offer the planned programs at the library this summer.

In building news, the new HVAC system is running! Unfortunately, we can't touch it until we've been trained on it, so temperatures vary widely. Even more unfortunately, for my temper and well-being, the hotter areas include, of course, the youth department. We've had to open windows to keep things bearable, especially in the program spaces, but there are no screens. Wasps at storytime are exciting, but not in a good way.

Left to do this month - one more week of programs, finish the collection projects, update all of the summer reading materials, plan at least the first weeks of summer reading programs, and the rest of the field trips. We still have giant piles of supplies in the Create Space, but we can't do anything about that until the city has time to come over and install our shelves. Everything else is on the back burner and we'll get to it when we get to it!

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Picture Book Neighborhoods: Community Helpers


 This contents of this collection have generally stayed the same. The labels have not! The main audience for this collection is teachers doing units on community helpers - the only exception to that is firefighters/fire trucks, which I've moved to vehicles and back again. To be honest, I'm still not 100% happy with this collection, but it's going to be at least another five years or more before I can bring myself to move anything around again here. All of the category, including fiction, is organized under Dewey numbers - the only exception is the firefighters/emergency workers, which is numerically at the end and followed by all the fiction books on this subject.

This collection is primarily composed of nonfiction series - Lerner has some excellent choices. Liesbet Slegers also has a series of community helper picture books that are popular.

020 - Fiction and nonfiction about libraries

331 - General community helpers, including fiction, nonfiction, and biographies

335 - US Government workers, How the government works, and the US military

  • Goodbye hello by Angela Dale (military family)
  • Hero mom by Melinda Hardin
  • Lost package by Richard Ho
  • My American Story: Making the rules by Jehan Jones Radgowski (series)
  • Cookie vote by Margaret McNamara
  • Free for you and me; Supreme Court and us by Christy Mihaly
  • Trusty town hall; White House; Capitol by Lindsay Ward

340 - Police

  • Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

370 - Teachers - nonfiction only

  • Sunnyside School by Lindsay Ward

610 - Doctors and medical workers, fiction and nonfiction

628 - Nonfiction about firefighters and rescue workers

Fiction about firefighters and rescue workers



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Saturday, May 9, 2026

This month in the collection: April 2026


May 2026 New Book Spotlight
Library Pinterest - new materials
Unless otherwise noted, all items were purchased for or added to the library collection

Board Books
Picture Books
Early Readers and Transitional Chapters
  • We dig fossils by Alliah Agostini
  • Beep Bop Boop by Ethan Long
  • Wisdom of the woods by Rachel Piercey
  • Let's have a sleepover by Salina Yoon
  • Bug on the bus by David Catrow
Beginning Chapter Books (new series)
  • Ly-Lan by Ha Dinh
Juvenile Fiction
  • No way never sisters by Acevedo
  • Cupcakes and camp by Coco Simon
Juvenile Nonfiction
Young Teen
  • Kid like me by Norman Feuti
  • Breakout by Christina Wyman
Young Adult - new graphic novel series
  • Beware the villainess
  • Not-sew-wicked stepmom
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Picture Book Neighborhoods: Community-Farm


 This subheading has moved around a bit - at one point I had farm animals in the animals, farm vehicles in the vehicle section, plants in the nature section, etc. In my last update of the section I moved all the items together and while it's hard to judge because of the movement of the collection and our renovation, it seems to have worked out well - at the very least, it's made it easy for me to pull books for displays and teacher requests.

Recommended Nonfiction about farms, farmers, farm animals, and farm machinery

Recommended fiction about farms, farm animals, and farm vehicles

Recommended Fiction and Nonfiction about food and gardening

Apples and Pumpkins

Other farm titles reviewed in the past

Other titles
  • Otis the tractor series by Loren Long
    • I personally dislike these, but they have been very popular. I think that popularity is waning.
  • ... to the rescue series by John Himmelman
    • I love these, but they're mostly out of print. Still amazing storytime choices though.
  • Turkey series by Wendi Silvano
    • These are very popular and there's one for most mainstream holidays. They're not specifically farm-themed, other than the main character of Turkey and other farm animals.
  • Minerva Louise series by Janet Stoeke
    • I love this series, but it's out of print and it's just not used much anymore.

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Saturday, May 2, 2026

April 2026 in review; Looking forward to May

Marcie and Giraffe by Kim Gregory

 I am still very much feeling SMOOSH-FACE. Everything that was stored in the basement last summer, then hauled up into our program spaces, then hauled out into the general youth department, had to be sorted, discarded, cleaned, and stored. Mice got into a lot of stuff, birds pooped on it, and most things were coated with detritus from the basement construction.

The new space has less storage and what there is generally doesn't fit any of the containers or materials we have so carefully accumulated, labeled, and organized over the years. We also had to paint our program spaces, put shelves back up which required breaking the old shelf pins out with pliers and hammer, then gluing new pins in, painting the old shelves, and refitting them, since of course every single shelf is a unique size.

Meanwhile new carpet was being installed (yay fumes!) we had torrential storms, tornadoes, and heat waves, and of course the new HVAC system does not work yet. Needless to say, I have not finished any of the prep work for summer that needs to be done. We didn't even manage to get everything stored away in time for our reopening on April 27th, but we had gotten through enough that the rest could be moved out of the way so people could get to the main part of the youth department.

However, we have survived and managed to keep things functioning. Field trips start on Monday and I've scheduled a handful of programs to run in May. In between field trips and programs, I will be finishing all of the summer planning, the nonfiction weeding I've been in the middle of for almost two years now, and the rest of the preparations for our "official" reopening and kick-off on June 6.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Mid-April update


We were completely closed the first week of April. I ended up working... way too much. Too much anxiety and other things causing me stress. I thought I didn't have that much to do and could just focus on a couple things but more and more stuff kept popping up. We had a couple meetings and ended up with an all-day program on Saturday (while we were also preparing for a partial re-open on Monday) running a program with an inflatable whale.

Right now we're trying to meet deadlines for marketing and summer reading plans while also painting our programming rooms and reorganizing all the stuff. We've had an unexpected heat wave/storms and, of course, the a/c hasn't been fully installed yet. We are sticky and tired.

I have a lot of review copies I thought I'd get to, but it's not looking likely. I am so mentally and physically tired that I'm just not in a space to write reviews. But there are cool books that I will talk about eventually! Meanwhile, you can all go read Marcie & Giraffe. SMOOSH-FACE!


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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Collection Development: USA 250th Anniversary


 There's a lot of discussion and different perspectives in libraries around the commemoration of the United States' 250th anniversary. I have my own thoughts on this, but since I don't generally do programs with specific themes that particular aspect is not relevant. I have been looking at books on the topic of US history, geography, and in general and here I have to focus very firmly on putting on my librarian hat.

  Whatever my own thoughts and perspective, my professional responsibility is to purchase items that are of interest to my community and that include accurate information. This seems straightforward, but it's actually really tricky; if a book's information is accurate but it limits or ignores some perspectives is it truly accurate? But if I purchase books that are accurate and cover all perspectives and they don't circulate, am I really meeting the needs of my community? It does help that my library is part of a larger consortium so there is access to more materials than are just in my library.

Anyways, this is a list of US-themed materials I have purchased so far this year. I will be updating this periodically and it will be interesting to see the total at the end of the year. I actually have a lot of juvenile nonfiction that hasn't been added yet because I'm currently weeding that collection too.

Picture Books

  • 50 states of love: A celebration of America 9781836006077
  • Copland: A story about America 9780593693711
  • Make a pretty sound: A story of Ella Jenkins the first lady of Children's Music 9781452170640
  • The 50 states: Things that go 9781419779725
  • Land of the free: America's ABC 9781668979020
  • The Navajos 9780823460977
  • America the beautiful 9781836008774
  • Baseball for breakfast: A (mostly) true story 9781623545703
  • Main Street: A community story about redlining 9798217002672
  • You are the land 9798217003495
  • Once a wasteland: From toxic dump to national park 9781534113480

Juvenile beginning chapters

  • Where is Arizona? 9798217053407
  • Where is Florida? 9798217051373
  • Where is Michigan? 9798217053285
  • Where is New Jersey? 9798217053315
  • Where is New York? 9798217051403
  • Where is North Carolina? 9798217053254
  • Where is Tennessee? 9798217053438
  • Where is Virginia? 9798217053346
  • Where is Washington? 9798217053377

Juvenile nonfiction

  • History Comics: Ellis Island 9781250768780

These are items I have read/skimmed and plan to purchase

Picture Books

  • Teaching for change by Yvonne Clark-Rhines 9780063251601
    • This is a powerful biography of a Civil Rights luminary. I'm very pleased to see more biographies of women and behind-the-scenes people from history and large-scale movements which are usually tied to a single man as leader.
  • When Paul Revere Rode by Sarah L. Thomson 9781662681387
    • A collection of poems from the different people involved in the events of "Paul Revere's Ride". Quotations from original sources and a brief explanation of each event are also included. Two enslaved men are quoted and there is an oblique mention of other riders.
  • It takes a family to serve by Lisa Wheeler 9780063283473
    • The subtitle is "A tribute to military families" and this does a really good job of showing a variety of different families and military personnel. POC and women are shown serving and a child is shown being raised by his grandfather.
  • Honor Flight by Jeff Gottesfeld 9781536230154
    • An honor flight as seen through the eyes of the author and the veteran he escorted.

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Saturday, April 4, 2026

This month in the collection: March 2026



Library Pinterest
April New Book Spotlight

Unless otherwise noted, all items were purchased for or added to the library collection

Board Books
Picture Books
  • Butt or face? Ador-a-butts! by Lavelle
  • How to hatch: A gosling's guide to breaking free by Ackerman
  • Monarch and mourning cloak by Melissa Stewart
  • Rhea's rodeo by Laekan Kemp
  • Baseball for breakfast: A (mostly) true story by Judy Campbell-Smith
  • Big kids by K. L. Going
  • Short stories by Silvia Borando
  • My Tiger by Joy Cowley
  • Simone Biles by Ebony Wilkins
  • Plenty of pancakes by Carrie Finison
  • Exca-gator by Brooke Hartman
  • Formula fast : your ultimate guide to Formula One racing! by Matt Ralphs
  • Is it spring? by Kevin Henkes
  • Dropbear by Philip Bunting
Early Readers and Transitional Chapters
  • Beep Bop Boop by Ethan Long
  • Wisdom of the woods by Rachel Piercey
  • We dig fossils by Agostini
  • Let's have a sleepover by Salina Yoon
  • Bug on the bus by David Catrow
Beginning Chapter Books (new series)
  • Branches: Super Villains in Training
  • Fairies Welcome by Bea Jackson
  • Scrapper by Cam Higgins
  • Desmond Cole, Ghost Patrol graphic novel
Juvenile Fiction
  • I know your secret by Daphne Benedis Grab (patron request)
  • Speed Reader by Matthew Cody
  • Love rolls in by Erin Downing
  • Study in secrets by Debbi Florence
  • Camp Monster by Kate Messner
  • Small wonder by Ross Montgomery
  • Lions' Run by Sara Pennypacker
  • Snowy owl rescue by Heidi Stemple
  • Each and every spark by Claire Swinarski
  • One for the dogs by Weisfeld
Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Zombie spiders and asteroid blasters by Okereke
  • Forest revealed by Kosek
  • Extreme birdwatching by Loree Burns
Young Teen
  • Red star rebels by Amie Kaufman
  • Academy: Cup of nations by Layton
  • Magnitude by Jennifer Nielsen
  • Burn the water by Billy Ray
  • Aftermyth by Tracy Wolff
Manga (new series)
  • Shugo Chara! (new edition)
Young Adult
  • Steam by Garrity (graphic novel)
  • Sun and the starmaker by Griffin
  • Beth is dead by Bernet
  • I don't wish you well by Emill


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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

In which I have some thoughts about books that everybody else except me apparently loved


Brave New Ballet: The story of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 9798217049370

  This is a picture book about a male ballet troupe formed in the 1970s that performed in drag, including the women's parts. I don't think it's inappropriate for kids, in the modern conception of the word, but I think the topic is too complex for the picture book format. Admittedly, I may be somewhat influenced by my sibling who teaches cultural anthropology/dance and who had some thoughts about the book. In any case, it's unlikely to be a book that's of interest to my community.


Bookie & Cookie turn the page by Bianca Gomez 9780593696835

  This is a fairly typical interactive story, focusing on imagining positive and negative scenarios if the two characters turn the page. SLJ gave it a very positive review. But there are two styles of drawings in the book. The imagined (negative) scenarios from the white Cookie are in the more refined style of the author so the new character, a little girl, shows up as Black. The reimagined, positive scenarios from Bookie, the Black character, are drawn in what appears to be a childlike style with stick figures. The little girl who appears on the cover (and Bookie) are shown as white stick figures. This means that all the characters are depicted as white in all the positive scenarios and Black in almost all the negative ones. This... seems like a problem to me.
 

 Goldfinches by Mary Oliver, illustrated by Melissa Sweet 9780593692417

  I can recognize the artistic beauty of Sweet's work and I understand she has won many accolades and I am not particularly qualified to make artistic judgments. However, I found the neon pink distracting, out of place in the general color scheme, and not remotely like the actual color of thistle blooms, which I've always seen as a softer pink or purple, or like the "coin of reddish fire" it is supposed to depict. Secondly, although some of the more sketchy parts of the art are indistinct, throughout the book Sweet depicts goldfinches in their familiar bright gold plumage with black striped feathers, completely ignoring the lighter olive color of the female goldfinch and the winter plumage of the male. I wouldn't necessarily fault her for this - it took me quite a while to identify male goldfinches in their winter plumage - except she specifically mentions doing research for the book. So why did she only depict male goldfinches, building the nest, feeding the young, migrating, etc. and only in one season of plumage? I'm obviously a minority voice here, since the book has received wide acclaim and is being lauded as a potential award-winner, but it's not one I personally would promote.

I received all these as unsolicited review copies
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Saturday, March 28, 2026

March 2026 in review; Looking forward to April

Two circulation staff working on clean-up.

 Well. That was... quite a month. We resumed a smaller slate of regular programs, three afternoon drop-ins and a Friday morning storytime. Our main storytime, with a school colleague, is still being held at the Rec center. The big event this month was moving all the adult fiction back into place and moving all the adult nonfiction across the library and into its new place.

I took a week off and started it by dropping by the library (on a Sunday, when we're closed) to show visiting family the renovations. What we found instead was a very dramatic and large leak, the result of unseen damage to the roof during a windstorm two days before. Emergency measures were taken and I went back on vacation, but staff had to deal with all the fallout of that while I was gone as well as being closed for an unexpected snowstorm the following Monday.

Moving all the adult materials was completed and we are now getting ready for the final move and our only closure during this whole process in April. The last week of March was our school's spring break so that was busy as well. I think we are fairly expert at moving stuff around patrons now, although it's not what anyone would call enjoyable.

My department has done a lot of prep work for summer, but we still have a lot to do and we'll be concentrating on that during the week we are completely closed. The following weeks, only the library lobby will be open to the public with shorter hours, and during that time we have a large list of projects including painting and getting the program rooms ready for actual use.

I put together the new book spotlight early this month, so people could stock up before spring break and the closure, and I also presented at a virtual conference. This was a little tricky since when I'd written the idea for the presentation, about our renovation, it was a lot earlier and we had not... experienced as much.

Technical Services department checking books for damage.



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Saturday, March 21, 2026

Picture Book Neighborhoods: Community/Culture


 This subheading was only added to the Community neighborhood in 2024/2025. I'm constantly debating with myself about whether items belong here or in US history - I don't want to isolate specific cultures and subcultures of the US, but nor do I want them to be subsumed in the History collection. This was a very small section until I decided to integrate our holiday picture book collection into the general picture books. I try to put only books that focus specifically on traditions or a holiday in specific cultures, not generic "here comes the easter bunny" or "it's santa ho ho ho" type of books. I also try to put specifically religious books, especially for Easter and Christmas, in the religion section. Which is kind of a specious argument since these are, inherently, religious holidays, but whatever.

I do have a collection of paperback holiday books as well - whenever possible, I purchase mainstream/traditional holidays in paperback so I can buy multiples without spending as much money on things that only circulate seasonally.


Picture Book Biographies of Cultural Figures (US and Global)


Cultural Experiences in the US


Global Cultural Experiences


Holiday Picture Books - mainstream/most requested US holidays

  • Groundhog day
    • Groundhog's runaway shadow by Biedrzycki
    • Groundhog day Gail Gibbons
    • Groundhug day by Anne Marie Pace (also Valentine's Day)
    • Groundhog gets it wrong by Jess Townes
  • Valentine's Day
    • A Crankenstein valentine by Berger
    • Foxy in Love by Emma Dodd
    • Valentine's Day by Flanagan
    • How to celebrate Valentine's Day by Hallinan
  • St. Patrick's Day (even though I have FEELINGS about this as a HOLIDAY)
    • Leprechaun under the bed by Bateman
    • How to trap a leprechaun by Fliess
    • St. Patrick's Day by Gail Gibbons
    • Three ways to trap a leprechaun by Lazar
    • It's not easy being a Leprechaun by Sadler
  • Easter (non-religious, even though it's a religious holiday)
  • Mother's Day
  • Halloween
    • Stumpkin by Lucy Ruth Cummins
    • Spoops : the little spirits of Halloween by Locascio
    • ¡Vamos! : let's celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos by Raul the Third
    • I got the spooky spirit by Schofield-Morrison
    • Happy Halloween & Katie celebrates Halloween by Lisbet Slegers
    • Pick a pumpkin by Patricia Toht
  • Thanksgiving
    • Thanksgiving in the Woods by Alsdurf
    • Peyton picks the perfect pie : a Thanksgiving celebration by Bishop
    • One is a feast for Mouse : a Thanksgiving tale by Judy Cox
    • I know an old lady who swallowed a pie by Jackson
    • Duck and Hippo give thanks by London
    • Thankful book by Todd Parr
    • I am thankful by Sheri Wall
  • Christmas
    • The magic of a small town Christmas by Megan Alexander
    • A simple Christmas on the farm by Alsdurf
    • The Tooth Fairy's Christmas by Bently
    • On Christmas Eve by Margaret Wise Brown
    • Carter's Christmas by Lisa Bullard
    • Joy to the world! : Christmas around the globe by Joy DePalma
    • Christmas pine by Julia Donaldson
    • N is for Navidad by Susan Middleton Elya
    • World of cookies for Santa by Furman
    • It's Navidad, El Cucuy! by Higuera
    • The gingerbread pirates by Kladstrup
    • Joyful book by Todd Parr
    • Twelve days of Christmas by Jane Ray
    • Pick a pine tree by Patricia Toht
    • Is this... winter? by Helen Yoon
  • Chloe Zoe series by Jane Smith


Holiday Picture Books - other holidays and general/collections

  • Feliz new year, Ava Gabriela! by Alessandri
  • Our Day of the Dead celebration by Aranda
  • Holidays & celebrations by Carron Brown
  • Harvest Days: Giving thanks around the world by Kate DePalma
  • The Purim panic by Laura Gehl
  • Celebrate with me! : recipes, crafts, and holiday fun from around the world by Gladwin
  • Two New Years by Richard Ho
  • At our table by Patrick Hulse
  • Skeletina and the in-between world by Susie Jaramillo
  • Dreams of green : a Three Kings' Day story by Jungkunz
  • Diwali in my new home by Shachi Kaushik
  • Danbi's favorite day by Anna Kim
  • Tomorrow is New Year's Day : Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year by Kim
  • Come and join us! : 18 holidays celebrated all year long by Kleinrock
  • Ruby's Chinese New Year by Vickie Lee
  • Mixed-up mooncakes by Matula
  • Feasts and festivals around the world : from Lunar New Year to Christmas by McGinty
  • My Diwali light by Mirchandani
  • Chinese celebrations for children : festivals, holidays and traditions by Nunes
  • Let's celebrate Korean New Year! by Park
  • The blue table by Chris Raschka
  • Japanese celebrations for children : festivals, holidays and traditions by Reynolds
  • Festival of colors by Sehgal
  • Garland of Lights: A Diwali Story by Chitra Soundar
  • We all celebrate! by Chitra Soundar
  • The Sugar Plum Bakers : a tale of 12 holiday treats by Tanumihardja
  • Día de los muertos by Roseanne Thong
  • Esperanza Caramelo : the star of Nochebuena by Valenti
  • Dino-Hanukkah by Lisa Wheeler
  • Celebrate with us! : enjoy 20 celebrations all around the world by Wilding
  • I know an old lady who swallowed a dreidel by Yacowitz
  • We celebrate the light by Jane Yolen

Other titles in this collection I have reviewed



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