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May 21, 2012 | mebbitt
From board books, to pictures books, to chapter books, it's is so hard to choose? Here are some children's books that we love and we hope you will too!
Board Books
Story time for Lamb by Michael Dahl; illustrated by Oriol Vidal Pastor
At the beach by Salina Yoon
Funny feet by Liesbet Slegers
Spot's hide and seek by Eric Hill
Ten black dots by Donald Crews
What is green?: a colors book by Kate Endle
Animal 123: one to ten and back again by illustrated by Kate Sheppard
Do penguins have puppies?: a book about animal babies by Michael Dahl; illustrated by Sandra D'Antonio
Curious George what do you see?: a book of mirrors by created by Margret and H.A. Rey
Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? by Bill Martin, Jr.; pictures by Eric Carle
Picture Books
Can you make a scary face? by Jan Thomas
There's a nightmare in my closet by written and illustrated by Mercer Mayer
Pete the Cat: I love my white shoes by story by Eric Litwin (aka Mr. Eric); art by James Dean
The hippo-NOT-amus by Tony and Jan Payne; illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees
Press here by Hervé Tullet; translated by Christopher Franceschelli
Little blue truck by Alice Schertle; illustrated by Jill McElmurry
Your pal Mo Willems presents Leonardo the terrible monser by [text and illustrations by] Mo Willems
Punk Farm by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
From head to toe by Eric Carle
The duckling gets a cookie!? by words and picture by Mo Willems
Beginning Readers
Should I share my ice cream? by Mo Willems
Barnyard brainwash by John Sazaklis; illustrated by Art Baltazar
Batman: dawn of the dynamic duo by John Sazaklis; pictures by Steven E. Gordon; colors by Eric A. Gordon
Amelia Bedelia helps out by Peggy Parish; pictures by Lynn Sweat
Frog and toad all year by Arnold Lobel
Henry and Mudge by story by Cynthia Rylant; pictures by Sucie Stevenson
Young Cam Jansen and the new girl mystery by David A. Adler; illustrated by Susanna Natti
Little Bear and the Marco Polo by Else Holmelund Minarik; pictures by Dorothy Doubleday
Biscuit by story by Alyssa Satin Capucilli; pictures by Pat Schories
Mr. Putter & Tabby write the book by Cynthia Rylant; illustrated by Arthur Howard
Chapter Books
The Penderwicks: a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Theodore Boone: kid lawyer by John Grisham
I.Q. by Roland Smith
The name of this book is secret by Pseudonymous Bosch; illustrations by Gilbert Ford
Attack of the 50-foot Cupid by [written and] illustrated by Jim Benton
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson; illustrations by Greg Call
Eleven by Lauren Myracle
Heat by Mike Lupica
Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator by Jennifer Allison
Harriet, the spy. Written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh by Fitzhugh, Louise
The original adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson
The chameleon wore chartreuse: from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko, private eye by Bruce Hale
The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963: a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis
Homer Price, by Robert McCloskey by McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003
George Washington's spy by Elvira Woodruff
Non-Fiction
First Girl Scout: the life of Juliette Gordon Low by Ginger Wadsworth
One million things. Space by written by Carole Stott; consultant, Jacqueline Mitton
Who was Steve Jobs? by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso; illustrated by John O'Brien
The real spy's guide to becoming a spy by Peter Earnest and Suzanne Harper, in association with the Spy Museum
Ocean sunlight: how tiny plants feed the seas by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm; illustrated by Molly Bang
Aliens and UFOs by John Hawkins
Ralph Masiello's robot drawing book by Ralph Masiello
Every thing on it: poems and drawings by Shel Silverstein
2030 by Amy Zuckerman and James Daly; illustrated by John Manders
Fairies and magical creatures by Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda