After his roommates send him away, Bernard tries a lake, a puddle and a fountain. Bernard can’t help but keep his fellow otters awake all night because he has a teeny snoring problem. Grownups making fools of themselves by snoring is a real kick for kids, so this book is gold. Why should you read this one out loud to children whenever you can? Snoring. Stop Snoring, Bernard! by Zachariah OHora The prose, gently poetic, is lovely and will soothe both the reader and the audience. Pendziwol and Isabelle ArsenaultĪ gorgeous lullaby in book form, this captures the feel of a rural winter night – complete with foxes, rabbits, owls, and, my personal animal obsession, deer. This book really blew me away the first time I read it, and I also love how the rhyming prose is full of great, unusual vocabulary words for kids. Spectacular woodcut illustrations accompany this noisy, fun book about a grumpy panda (a lot of these books have animals being grumps, which I’m just realizing now) and his animal neighbors in the zoo. The story of a spoiled cat and a dopey dog becoming friends comes with a huge, exciting-to-me bonus: mixed-race lesbian cat-moms! I am here for everything about this badass book. This cutely illustrated story is by an award-winning children’s author. Princess Puffybottom…and Darryl by Susin Nielsen and Olivia Chin Mueller This picture book has ridiculously adorable art that demonstrates how animals such as hippos, monkeys, and pigs take baths. How Do You Take A Bath? Kate McMullan and Sydney Hanson Enviously resigned to the background, where he watches as rhinos and lions cut a rug around him, he is finally inspired by a kind cricket to try dancing to a different style of music. Gerald the giraffe really wants to dance but he has crooked knees and wibbly wobbly legs. Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees What’ll they do?! This will be a silly, rhyme-filled time. They each try to make it up to him, but their plans backfire and Bear ends up even grumpier than before. In this one, Bear is trying to hibernate but Moose, Sheep, Lion and Zebra keep walking him up with their games. This series of bear books is one I often favour for storytimes. So tired, in fact, that he doesn’t realize his much-needed glasses are on his head and gets lost as he burrows his way home. Morris Mole works at Gordon Ratzy’s restaurant until his body aches and his eyes are tired. This book is vibrant, wacky and very fun. Will Flo’s bigger panda friends find a way to appreciate her slow, floppy ways of being? (Yes, and it’s very winsome with its hipster gramophone art). Due to her size, everything takes her longer and that frustrates the other pandas.
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