From Story Time: Summer Week 8

Stories in the Park

Pippa's Night Parade

Written by Lisa Robinson

Illustrated by Lucy Fleming

New York: Two Lions, 2019. Picture Book.

Using her wild imagination to dream up adorable creations, young Pippa finds the limits of her creativity tested on a night when monsters sneak out of her storybooks to scare her. --Editor

Stories in the Park

Let's Build a Dam!

Written by Daniel Fehr

Illustrated by Mariachiara Di Giorgio

New York: NorthSouth Books Inc., 2023. Picture Book.

Hilarity ensues when siblings set out to build a simple dam in this charming picture book for young children. Siblings May, Lily, and Noah build a dam. Stone by stone, their dam grows higher and higher, until their creation attracts the attention of fishermen, pirates, and even the King and his fleet. The sky's the limit, until Noah wants his stone back . . . Each page builds upon the previous scene as the children's imaginations also grow. Children will delight in pointing out the changing details on each page as they laugh along to this picture book about the boundlessness of imagination and sibling friendship. --Editor

Canopy Capers and Summer Story Time

So Tortoise Dug

By Emmy Kastner

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2025. Picture Book.

Tortoise and Mouse are more than just friends and burrowmates. They are best friends and best burrowmates. When their home gets flooded, however, it's up to Tortoise to dig them a new place to live. And so she digs a room of her own and a room for Mouse. But where is Mouse? Noticing the fresh burrow, Bunny asks Tortoise if she could dig a room for her as well. Then the Spotted Skunk. The Mole Skinks. And the Wolf Spider, the Frog, and those mothsSo Tortoise digs. Seemingly everyone else wants to be her burrowmate except for Mouse--where did she go? --Editor

Canopy Capers and Summer Story Time

Mrs. Mole, I'm Home!

By Jarvis

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2017. Picture Book. 

When Morris Mole loses his glasses, he decides to try to find his way home from work without them, but he soon finds that he didn't know his way as well as he had thought. --Editor