picture books

Squelch squerch! Stumble trip! Tiptoe! — ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’

Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury revisit their classic story of a family going on a bear hunt (encountering many obstacles along the way) — and preview their new one, Oh Dear, Look What I Got!

During an ‘Island Storm,’ two kids on an adventure ask — ‘Do we try for more?’

A storm is coming and two siblings pull on their boots and head to the sea. The waves crash and the rain starts to fall, but they go on in this quintessential summer adventure story.

From caterpillar to butterfly, ‘Papilio’ grows up in a new picture book

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg time is pretty boring). It's also written and illustrated by three friends.

In ‘Words with Wings and Magic Things,’ poetry is beautifully illustrated — and fun!

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

Kids notice everything — here’s what one child sees ‘Next to Me’

When they became parents, Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas noticed that they were ... noticing more. So they wrote Next to Me, their first kids' book together.

Do what you can. A new kids’ book shows how even ‘The Littlest Drop’ helps

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper's new book. It was one of the last projects illustrator Jerry Pinkney worked on before he died. His son Brian finished it for him.