Milwaukee Public Library
  Empty gray box
Search for: in:
 
Giraffe image copyright 2005 by Lois EhlertNew Items to Check Out

Infants & Preschool | Ages 6-9 | Ages 10-14 | Archive

Infants & Preschool

The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett.
All the birds have laid an egg except Duck. Fortunately, she finds one, and it’s beautiful, but the other birds laugh at her enormous, green-speckled egg. However, duck’s baby has the last laugh.

The Three Little Gators by Helen Ketteman.
Three young gators get a visit from Big-bottomed Boar who calls—“Little gator, let me in. I smell tender gator skin.” The gators find the value in a rock-solid home and the boar gets barbecued.

Mighty Max! by Harriet Ziefert.
Mighty Max, as he calls himself, is an ordinary young boy who likes to wear a red cape and create super hero adventures.

Safari Animals by Simms Taback.
Boldly illustrated, Taback's foldout pages also contain guessing games involving familiar animals.

Katie Loves the Kittens by John Himmelman.
Katie is utterly infatuated with the new kittens. "Aroooooo!" howls Katie eagerly, but her vocalizing, leaping and avid tail-wagging scare the living daylights out of them. Will Katie ever get to play with the kittens? 

Duck and Goose How Are You Feeling? by Tad Hills.
Duck and Goose have feelings--happy, sad, selfish, patient, hopeful, and frustrated-- just like your favorite toddler.

Ages 6 to 9

Watch Me Throw the Ball! by Mo Willems.
How far can Piggie throw a baseball? Would you believe, “all the way around the world?”

Luke on the Loose by Harry Bliss.
A trip to the park turns into an unexpected adventure as Luke tries to capture a pigeon.

Dinothesaurus by Douglas Florian.
"Its brain was smaller than a plum. / Stegosaurus was quite DUMB.” Florian's free-flowing, witty collection of poems and collages about dinosaurs is a giganotosaurus delight.

Bad  to the Bone by Lucy Nolan.
Down Girl, a frisky dog, describes how she attempts to train her humans, a difficult task since humans don’t seem to like dog treats.

Moonlight on the Magic Flute (Magic Tree House #41) by Mary Pope Osborne.
Jack and Annie head to eighteenth-century Austria where they must find and help a musician by the name of Mozart.

Ages 10 to 14

The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan.
Think you might be a hero?  This handbook will show you if you have what it takes to join Percy Jackson and his friends at Camp Half Blood.

Words to My Life’s Song by Ashley Bryan.
In rich collages of words and pictures, this highly visual autobiography introduces artist Ashley Bryan’s life and his vision of the world around him.

Scat by Carl Hiaasen.
When their unpopular biology teacher goes missing during a field trip to the Black Vine Swamp, Nick and Marta aren’t buying the headmaster's excuse for her absence and decide to do some investigating of their own.

The Sword Thief: 39 Clues by Peter Lerangis.
Amy and her brother are at the Venice airport wondering how they are going get the samurai swords—booty from the last book — through airport security, and if they get through security, then what? 

Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell.
Antimony Carver relates her first year at Gunnerkrigg Court, a British boarding school that looks like a vast modern factory, but is filled with fairies, gods, ghosts and sentient shadows.

The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon.
Fourteen-year-old Sam is the son of minister and civil-rights leader Roland Childs, a revered community figure whose counsel is sought by Martin Luther King Jr. Meanwhile Stick, his older brother and best friend, is involved with the Black Panthers. Sam is torn between the two people he looks up to most.

 
© Milwaukee Public Library 814 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53233 (414) 286-3000 | City of Milwaukee |
 To report technical difficulties with this Web site contact:
webmaster@mpl.org