From Story Time: Summer Reading Week 2

Read at Stories in the Park

By Jon Agee

Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016. Picture Book.

There are seven steps to becoming a proper lion, including Looking Fierce, Roaring, Prowling Around, and Pouncing. Our young hero, a rather meek and scrawny human boy, does his best to learn the necessary skills during his training with a master instructor (who just happens to be a real lion). After a grueling set of lessons, the boy discovers that that the final step—Looking Out for Your Friends—is the most important of all. That’s how any kid can earn his lion diploma (not to mention the affection of every cat in town).

With the wit and read-aloud appeal of Peter Brown’s Children Make Terrible Pets and William Steig’s Pete’s a Pizza, this funny, fierce picture book teaches kids just what it takes to be a great lion. --Publisher

Read at Stories in the Park

Sun Flower Lion

By Kevin Henkes

Greenwillow Books, 2020. Picture Book.

On a warm morning, a little lion sleeps under a sun that shines so brightly, it looks like a flower. He dreams the flower is as big as the sun. He dreams the flower is a cookie. He lets his imagination soar.

Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes uses simple shapes, limited colors, and a pitch-perfect text to tell Lion's story in this transcendent picture book. Sun Flower Lion introduces emerging readers to short chapters, action verbs, and adjectives, while bright illustrations transform simple shapes into something magical.

Sun Flower Lion will shine at story time and bedtime and for young children just learning how to read on their own. --Publisher

Read at Cuentos

El Pez Pucheros

Escrito por Deborah Diesen

Ilustrado por Dan Hanna

Traducido por Teresa Mlawer

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016. Spanish Picture Book.

Nada junto al Sr. Pez según el descubre que ser sombrío y triste realmente no es su destino. Un océano de colores brillantes y rima juguetona hacen pareja en este cuento marino divertido que garantiza convertir los pequeños pucheros en grandes sonrisas.

Esta edición del libro más vendido en el New York Times Pout-Pout Fish en español será encantador para todo lector bilingüe. --Publisher

Read at Book Babies

Hippo Says "Excuse Me"

Written by Michael Dahl

Illustrated by Oriol Vidal

Picture Window Books, 2012. Board Book.

Hippo might bump and squish others as he makes his way through his day, but he always remembers to say, “Excuse me!” This board book in the Hello Genius series is perfect for teaching manners in fun and playful way. --Publisher

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