New picture books that are fun for adults and kids alike!

Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown

Meet Lucy. (a bear)  Meet Lucy's pet. (a boy)

She calls him Squeaker.  Lucy and Squeaker have the

best day ever.  Until things start to go wrong...

Do children make terrible pets? What do you think?

An Annoying ABC by Barbara Bottner

When Adelaide annoys Bailey, she sets off a chain reaction

of bad behavior among her classmates.  Soon Flora is fuming,

Kirby is kicking, Petunia is pestering, Todd is tumbling,

and Winthrop is weeping!

What will it take to fix this ABC catastrophe?  Readers will be

amazed to see what happens when Adelaide...apologizes.

Samantha on a Roll by Linda Ashman

"No Samantha. Not today. Please go put those skates away.

You're still too small. You don't know how! I can't help you-not right now."

But Samantha can't wait to try her brand-new roller skates.  While

Mama tends to other things, Sammy straps them on. First, she glides down

the hallway.  Then she tries the sidewalk.  Next she ventures a bit farther

down the street. She's doing great.  But when she finds herself cresting

Hawthorn Hill, it's too late to stop-in fact, she can't! Samantha is on a roll.

M.O.M. (Mom operating Manual) by Doreen Cronin

Mom/mam, mem/n. (homosabius momius)

1. a. a female parent; b. a lady of authority; c. utterer of "because I say so"

2. a complex machine who runs full speed on little fuel and almost no sleep whatsoever

also Wonder Woman.

Take care of Mom and she'll take care of you.