Lucy Ruth Cummins, Vampenguin
This book tells a charming and wryly humorous story of adventure, mistaken identity and a day at the zoo of a vampire family; a story that abounds with visual gags where the reader is in on the joke long before the characters themselves are.
Alert and adventurous young readers will love this story of the hoaxes that happen when parents turn their backs.
(Ages 3-6)
Ann Stott, I’ll be there
Children love the idea of growing up and doing things on their own. It's fun to dress, read, and shower like a big kid--but it's also a little scary to take the first steps toward independence.
So the child asks his mother, "Will you still take care of me when I grow up?"
This book answers a child's question about when his mom will finish being his mom, now that he doesn't "need" her as much...but mom remains mom forever!
Annalisa Rabitti, Martino has Wheels
Martino and Emma are two schoolmates. She is a storyteller and uses speech as an extraordinary gift not to be wasted. He, on the other hand, is a ‘quiet child’ - that is exactly how Emma defines him - a child who moves with the wheels, who does not express himself by speaking and who sometimes shows reactions that are difficult to understand. There is little contact between the two until Emma finds in Martin the ideal listener to her stories: a patient
Dr Susan Nolen-Hoehìksema, Woman Who Think too Much
‘My brain never stops.’ How many times have we said or heard that? Many women are all too familiar with the feeling of feeling suffocated by thoughts, emotions, worries overlapping out of control. What am I doing with my life? What do others think of me? Why am I not satisfied? Will I be good enough? Is my partner still interested in me? Why does my son talk back to me? Why do I feel so frustrated and anxious? Thinking too much - rumination
Estelle Condra, See The Ocean
Nellie loves the ocean. Every year she travels with her family over the Black Mountains to their beach house. And every year her two brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean through the mountain passes. Nellie never competes-until this year. This year, the mountains are blanketed in a heavy mist, and no one can see the ocean-no one except Nellie.