Books like Your Personal Penguin
By Sandra Boynton
For the kid who has a best friend they'd follow anywhere, this is the sound of loyalty asking to be picked. Sweet, silly, and full of gentle rhythm — cozy rather than wild.
When deep snow buries their doors and windows, the mice of Brambly Hedge decide there's only one thing to do: build an Ice Hall and throw a Snow Ball.
A rhyming romp through all twelve months, each one celebrated with a bowl of chicken soup with rice — from snowy January to a windy, wild December.
A meadow comes alive as mother animals — from one mother turtle to ten mother fireflies — count out their babies through a gentle rhyming verse.
A independent dog named Crispin's Crispian, who belongs to himself and answers to no one, runs bang into a little boy who also belongs to himself — and the two decide to share a home.
In the woodland of Burrow Down, bedtime books keep vanishing every night, so one brave rabbit named Eliza Brown stays up late to catch the mysterious culprit in the act.
A chameleon changes color wherever he goes and longs to keep one color of his own, so he settles on the greenest leaf — until autumn turns it yellow, then red, right along with him.
A great brown bear sleeps through winter while mouse, hare, badger, raven, and mole sneak into his cave one by one, brewing tea and popping corn without waking him — until he finally stirs.
A tiny snail longing to see the world hitches a ride on a humpback whale's tail, and together they sail to icebergs and volcanoes — until the whale gets stranded and needs the smallest friend to save her.
Deep in a snowy forest, a bear who should be hibernating stays wide awake, so his worried animal friends gather to brew tea and sing lullabies to help him finally drift off.
A rhyming celebration of babies everywhere, counting ten little fingers and ten little toes on roly-poly little ones from all kinds of families and places.
A small boy and a big friendly bear head off on a berry-picking adventure, paddling canoes and crossing bridges through Berryland in search of blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries for jam.
A witch and her cat fly happily on a broomstick until the wind blows away her hat, bow, and wand — and the animals who return them all want a ride, leaving no room to spare when a hungry dragon attacks.
