ALPHABET UNDER CONSTRUCTION / Denise Fleming. -- Henry Holt, 2002, $16.95.
Mouse constructs each letter with the appropriate verb, i.e. “glue the G”

BERTIE WAS A WATCHDOG / Rick Walton, Arthur Robins. --Candlewick Press, 2002, $10.99.
Brains can overcome brawn as this watch-size dog saves the family’s home from a burglar.

BOB by Tracey Campbell Pearson – Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002. $16.00.
While looking for someone to teach him how to crow, a rooster learns to sound like many different animals and finds that his new skills come in handy.

BUBBA AND BEAU BEST FRIENDS by Kathi Appelt, Arthur Howard. -- Harcourt Brace and Company, 2002. $16.00.
When Mama Pearl washes their favorite blanket it’s a sad day for best friends Bubba and Beau but it gets worse when she decides the puppy and boy need baths, too.

BUG CEMETERY / Frances Hill, Vera Rosenberry. --Holt, 2002, $16.95.
Death is approached in a gentle manner, first with insects, then a friend’s cat, and the resulting garden soothes the sorrow.

CLOSE YOUR EYES by Kate Banks, Georg Hallensleben. – Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002. $16.00.
A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can be seen with one’s eyes closed.

DO LIKE A DUCK DOES / Judy Hindley, Ivan Bates. -- Candlewick Press, 2002, $14.99.
In rhyme and alliteration Mama Duck outwits the conniving fox.

A DROP OF GOLD by Vlasta van Kampen – Annick Press, 2001. $18.95
A pourquoi story that tells what happens when Mother Nature forgets to color the birds.

DUCK ON A BIKE / David Shannon. – Blue Sky Press, 2002, $15.95.
Each of the barnyard animals watch Duck cavort on a bike and jealously end up finding their own bikes in the unconventional adventure.

THE GREAT GRACIE CHASE STOP THAT DOG! / Cynthia Rylant, Marc Teague. –Blue Sky Press, 2001, $15.95
Gracie, who wants only peace and quiet, ends up causing a comic chase but returns to a quiet home.

HUNGRY HEN / Richard Waring, Caroline Church. – HarperCollins, 2001, $14.95.
A greedy fox watches a hungry hen growing bigger every day, knowing that the longer he waits to eat her, the bigger she will be.

I STINK! / Kate McMullan and Jim McMullan. – HarperCollins Publisher, 2002. $15.95.
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.

LITTLE BROWN HEN’S SHOWER / Pamela Duncan Edwards and Darcia Labrosse, Hyperion, 2002. $15.99
A mother hen hears there is going to be a shower, so she takes her umbrella to the surprise party the other animals are having for her baby and her.

THE MAGIC HAT by Mem Fox, Tricia Tusa. – Harcourt Brace & Company, 2002. $16.00
A wizard’s hat blows into town, changing people into different animals.

MILO’S HAT TRICK / Jon Agee. –Hyperion Books for Children, 2001. $15.95
When Milo the magician is in desperate need of a new trick to pull out of his hat, he encounters a bear who helps him out.

MUNCHA! MUNCHA! MUNCHA! / Candace Fleming, G. Brian Karas. -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002. $16.00.
After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreeley tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables.

MY FRIEND RABBIT / Eric Rohmann.—Roaring Brook Press, 2002. $15.95.
Rabbit engineers the rescue of Mouse’s plane only to get into another problem.

ONCE UPON A FARM / Marie Bradby, Ted Rand. -- Orchard, 2002. $16.95.
A poetic look at a family farm and a vanishing way of life.

THE REAL, TRUE DULCIE CAMPBELL by Cynthia DeFelice, R. W. Alley. Farrar, 2002. $16.00
Imaginative Dulcie tells her parents that she is really a princess and should not have to muck out the chicken coop.

THE RECESS QUEEN by Alexis O' Neill, Laura Huliska-Beith. Scholastic, 2002. $15.95.
Mean Jean is the biggest bully on the school playground until a new girl arrives and challenges Jean’s status as the Recess Queen.

SNOW DAY! by Patricia Lakin, Scott Nash. – Dial Books Dutton, 2002. $15.99 
Four friends enjoy a snowy day of sledding.

TOASTING MARSHMALLOWS: CAMPING POEMS / Kristine O”Connell George, Kate Kiesler. –Clarion Books, 2001, $15.00.
A collection of poems about camping.

WANDA’S MONSTER by Eileen Spinelli, Nancy Hayasha. – Albert Whitman Company, 2002. $15.95.
When Wanda fears she has a monster in her closet, she takes her grandmother’s advice and begins to look from monster’s point of view.