The Castlehill Library
with
DENA ORR
MY FEATURED FAVORITE
PICTURE BOOKS
The Gruffalo
by Julia Donaldson
Mouse escapes his predators by telling them he is on his way to meet his friend the gruffalo, a creature with terrible claws, tusks, and jaws. The gruffalo, however, is just in Mouse's imagination, or is it?
Grades K-2
Widget
by Lyn Rossiter McFarland
When Widget, a little stray dog, stumbles through a flap door into the home of Mrs. Diggs, he sees six cats, six bowls of food, and six warm beds. There's clearly only one thing to do. Confronted by the cats' intense scrutiny, Widget meows, purrs, plays with a toy mouse, and uses the litter box. Having eventually convinced his new family of his felinity, Widget is soon living so happily he sometimes forgets his true nature. But when Mrs. Diggs takes a fall and doesn't get up, it's up to Widget to save the day with a particularly canine solution.
Grades K-2
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip C. Stead
Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee’s case, all sorts of species, too!
Every day, Amos spends time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and reading bedtime stories to the owl.
But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his friends return the favor.
Winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal
Grades K-2
My Lucky Day
by Keiko Kasza
When a delicious-looking piglet knocks on Mr. Fox's door "accidentally," the fox can hardly believe his good luck. It's not every day that dinner just shows up on your doorstep. It must be his lucky day! Or is it?
Before Mr. Fox can say grace, the piglet has manipulated him into giving him a fabulously tasty meal, the full spa treatment (with bath and massage), and...freedom.
In a funny trickster tale of her own, Kasza keeps readers guessing until the surprise ending when they'll realize it was piglet's lucky day all along.
Grades K-2
