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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, by Mem Fox, is a beautiful story resembling the innocence in a child who only wants to help. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge lives next door to an old people’s home. Although he is as old as them, he builds relationship with every person living in the home for different reasons. However, his absolutely favorite person is Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper. He especially likes her and tells her all of his secrets because she has four names just as he did. One day, he overhears his parents talking about how Miss Nancy has lost her memory. Wilfrid Gordon goes around asking different people what memory is, and so he goes on a scavenger hunt to find items which resemble the definition that each different person gave him. As Miss Nancy begins to pull the items out, she begins to remember everything about her past and she then remembers who Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is; the boy who helped Miss Nancy’s memory come back again.

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Shortcut, by Donald Crews, is a great book for children who always decide to take the wrong road home. In other words, this is a book for those children who know what is right but rather do what is wrong. It's about a few children who are having trouble deciding between taking the road home or taking the shortcut home which could potentially be dangerous. They decide to take the shortcut home which involves them walking on the railroad tracks. The children know that the train’s schedule is almost always off ad hey know how unexpected it can be. As they are walking home, they are having a great time and then they hear the train coming. The children almost all get injured or even almost end up dead. When they all realize that they are well and alive, they get back on the road and quietly walk home… they don’t talk about what has just happened and they don’t tell anybody about it because they knew that they should’ve taken the normal way home all along.

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The Duckling Gets a Cookie, by Mo Willems, stresses the idea of niceness and politeness. It is a great book for children as it is short, sweet, and very understandable. A pigeon is infuriated when it finds a duckling with a cookie with nuts in it. The duckling stresses the fact that it asked politely for the cookie and that is why it got it. The pigeon goes on and on about everything that it has asked for but has not received and then the duckling does something that makes the pigeon so happy… it offers the pigeon the cookie with nuts because the reason it got it in the first place was to give it to the pigeon. The duckling then asks for another cookie, politely, and is told that this time it would not have nuts in it.

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The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg, is a story which resembles what the true meaning of Christmas is for many children; the thought of belief. A boy is told that he will never hear Santa’s sleigh bells ring because Santa does not exist. However, one night, he hops on a train that is on its way to the North Pole. When he gets there, he is told that Santa Claus selects one of the many children to receive the first gift of Christmas. The boy asks for one of Santa’s sleigh bells, but when he gets back on the train, he realizes that he has lost it due to a hole in his pocket. The next morning as him and his sister are opening their gifts, they find a box with the boy’s name on it… inside of the box is the bell and a note for the boy. When he rings the bell, only him and his siter can hear it, but his parents cannot because they do not believe in Santa Claus. The boy never, ever becomes deaf to the sound of the bell because he always believes.

Awards -- Caldecott Medal

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Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, is a story that I have found to be very special. It is especially special for those kids who need help realizing that there really is no place like home. One night, Max was playfully misbehaving until his mom told him that he was a wild thing and sent him off to bed without eating. Max’s room became a forest and he traveled off to where all of the wild things lived. Although he was able to become king of the wild things, he felt as though something had been missing; a sense of home, family, and food. Max decided to sail back home as he did just in time to find a hot dinner in his room.

Awards -- Caldecott Medal

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On Noah’s Ark, by Jan Brett, is a story that for many years has been told and passed down. The author, however, does her best at rewriting this story in a way that children can understand and have fun with. As Noah’s grandfather gets an ark ready for the rain that is about to come, Noah gets together food and all of the animals in order for them to get on the ark while it rains. It rains for forty days and forty night which is a very difficult time period because all of the animals are trying to find their place on the ark. They soon fall asleep due to the rocking of the ark and Noah begins to untangle them. One day, Noah looks out and sees that there is no longer rain and that there is sun. Her grandfather sends her dove to look for land, which it finds, and they soon build new life on the land.

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The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein, is a book about the advantage that many children, and even adults, take over the small things in life. It is specifically for those children who do not realize all the good they have in their life. There was a little boy who visited a tree every day. The boy would climb the tree, eat the apples and just have great time with the tree. As the boy grew older, he forgot about the tree and visited it less and less. Every time the boy remembered the tree, however, he would ask for something but it was never to climb it or eat its apples like before. The boy wanted money, so the tree allowed the boy to sell its apples. Then the boy wanted a house, so the tree allowed the boy to cut off her branches in order to build a house. Then the boy wanted a boat, so the tree allowed the boy to cut off her trunk in order for him to build a boat. Finally, when three had nothing left to give, the boy said he just wanted a place to sit and be at piece, so the tree allowed the boy to sit on whatever piece of her trunk was left. The boy was sad because of the way his life had turned out which becomes the lesson of the book; the more you take from people/things, the less people will want to be around you. The boy never had a wife and never had kids, but he had his tree. Through all of this, the tree remained happy. Although nothing ever truly seemed to be enough for the boy, the tree was always there for the boy.

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Peter’s Chair, by Ezra Jack Keats is a great book for children who have recently become the older sibling in the family. It teaches children a lesson about having younger siblings. Peter becomes very upset when he is playing with his toys and his mom tells him to be quiet because of his baby sister. He realizes that his parents have painted everything that was his, pink except for a blue chair. Peter decides to go outside with his dog, and then he realizes that he no longer fits in the chair. He then realizes that his parents mean no harm by painting all of Peter’s old belongings pink… they only do it because Peter no longer fits in any of his old furniture. Peter becomes very open minded and decides to tell his parents to help him paint his old blue chair, pink.

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Chicken Soup with Rice, a book of months by Maurice Sendak, is a book which uses something that a person loves that he can relate back to every month of the year. This is a good book for teaching children the twelve months of the year. I personally like this book because I enjoy chicken soup with rice, no matter what month of the year it may be. The author tells a rhythmic story about how chicken soup with rice can be so delicious when eaten on any month of the year, which helps the reader learn what goes on through every month of the year, for example, Summer, Halloween, Christmas, etc.

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Hurricane, by David Wiesner, is a story which does a great job at teaching children the greatness of having an imagination. Two boys, David and George, are at home during a hurricane with their parents and their cat. Although they are safe at home, they become very frightened by the sounds of the hurricane. The day after the hurricane, they go outside to find a fallen tree which becomes the setting of their numerous adventures throughout the next few days. The adventures include being in a jungle, riding the seven seas, and traveling around the planets. The boys were having a great time with the tree until one morning they woke up to the sound of men taking the tree off of their neighbor’s yard, where it had landed. Although they become very sad, they are told that there is another storm on its way when they suddenly realize that there is a tree that could potentially fall and land right into their yard.

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The Elf on the Shelf, a Christmas tradition by Carol V. Aebersold and Chanda A. Bell, is a story which tries to teach children the idea of being kind by bribing them. The elf is actually a little doll that comes with the book in order to follow a tradition. The elf watches the child’s every move and reports it back to Santa. Every day, the elf is sitting in a different spot of the child’s home in order to give the child a sense of reality. The elf has one rule—that the child or the children involved in this Christmas tradition do not touch him as his magic may disappear. On Christmas Eve, the elf goes back to spend the rest of the year with Santa Claus.

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Six Crows, by Leo Lionni, really teaches children that communication is key in every situation. A farmer becomes very angry and overwhelmed by six noisy crows who have built a nest in a tree near his farm. As the wheat that the farmer had grown was getting ready to ripen, the crows came and ate, or pecked, at it. The farmer tried to build scare crows to scare the crows away, however, they were not very easy to frighten. The farmer became very frustrated as did the crows up until they met an owl who had been watching everything from a distance. The owl gave the farmer and the crows advice on how they should just talk things through and work out an agreement. After the crows and the farmer talked, they agreed on the idea of thanking the owl who had been sitting on the scarecrows arm who had ‘turned his frown, upside down’.

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I Am a Story, by Dan Yaccarino, is a great book for young children wondering how humans have evolved. The author-illustrator uses pictures and simple sentences to show how humans, as well as books, never stop evolving. This story does a great job at teaching children how story telling has been around for many, many years- as have human beings.

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100th Day Worries, by Margery Cuyler, illustrated by Arthur Howard is an outstanding book for children who can relate mathematics to different objects. The children in the story are to bring in 100 items on the 100th day of school... The students learn that if they group their objects in groups of 10, the 100 objects will look much neater. Also, this book demonstrates how students tend to overthink many assignments that they really should not worry about. This book does a good job at teaching students not to overthink as they may get caught up in turning an assignment in late.

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Miss Malarky Leaves No Reader Behind, by Judy Finchley and Kevin O'malley, relates to those children who have no interest in reading. The students at the school have to reach their goal of having read 1,000 books by June 12th in order to see the principal dye his hair purple and sleep on the roof of the school. One students in particular hates reading. He tries to read almost any kind of book but none seem to interest him the way his video games do. By the end of the story, Miss Malarkey has 'found' a book with every single one of the boy's interests because Miss Malarkey leaves NO reader behind.