Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))145 reviews

Hyperion Book CH, 2004

A Humorous and Adorable Story

+ Good bedtime story; kids can relate to this
+ Funny and cute!
+ great read
+ A Teacher's Perspective
  
  











  



  
Home (Horn Book Fanfare List (Awards))5 reviews

Greenwillow, 2004

Pictures Worth Thousands of Words!

+ Unique concept, beautiful pictures
+ Home was a good book
+ What a fabulous book!
+ The best picture book published in 2004. No debate.
  
  











  



  
Teeth Tails and Tentacles (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards))3 reviews
Christopher Wormell

Running Press Kids, 2004

Teeth, Tales & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book (New York Times Best Illustrated Books Awards)

+ MUST BUY!!!!
+ An excellent book for kids

I loved this book!!! The paper quality was outstanding as well as the book itself. The book illustrates the numbers one through twenty using animals or parts of animals. The text is on one page and on the opposite page is the illustration. It uses the numeral, the number word and then the words ...
  
  











  



  
Lemons Are Not Red (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))12 reviews

Roaring Brook Press, 2004

love it

+ Great book!
+ Terrific!
+ Beautiful book!
+ A new (lemon) twist for flap books
  
  











  



  
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))3 reviews
Karen English

Clarion Books, 2004

"A-never-going-to-be-friends-again-day."

+ Hot Day, Hot Tempers
+ Hot town, summer in the city.

It's a steaming summer day, the sun beating down on the sidewalk, too hot to even flutter a fan. Kishi sits alone on her front porch; Renee sprawls on the grass, looking for four-leaf clovers. Although best friends, neither girl will speak to one another on this sweltering summer morning, even when ...
  
  











  



  
Wow! City! (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))8 reviews

Hyperion Book CH, 2004

Patricia Santella

+ My Son's Favorite
+ Wow! A bedtime favorite!
+ Unfettered enthusiasm
+ Vibrant, exciting, and fun
  
  











  



  
Where Is the Green Sheep? (Horn Book Fanfare List (Awards))24 reviews
Mem Fox, Judy Horacek

Harcourt Children's Books, 2004

love this book!

+ Love it
+ Great for Babies Too!
+ It's a day care favorite
  
  











  



  
Wild About Books (Irma S and James H Black Honor for Excellence in Children's Literature (Awards))22 reviews
Judy Sierra

Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2004

This Book is why I will never buy a Kindle

+ Great book for ages 4-7
+ A Really Good Story That Encourages Reading and Checking Out Your Local Library
+ Fun and Informative
+ A Mom's Choice Awards Recipient!
  
  











  



  
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, ...4 reviews
Deborah Hopkinson

Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books, 2004

4½ A Delicous Version of How the West was Won

+ Perfect Blend of Words and Pictures
+ Being the review of a gal who likes her tall tales spunky
+ Delicious!
  
  











  



  
Ruby Lu, Brave and True (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))7 reviews
Lenore Look

Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books, 2004

Great alternative to Junie B!

+ Treasured Memories
+ Review on: Ruby Lu, Brave and True by Lenore Look
+ Let's all ride in the car car, let's all ride in the... car?
+ I couldn't ask for a finer early chapter book.
  
  











  



  
Kitten's First Full Moon62 reviews

Greenwillow, 2004

Kitten's First Full Moon

+ My favorite bedtime book
+ Report and Opinion by a 4th Grade Student
+ Sophia's Favorite Book
  
  











  



  
Baby Danced the Polka (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))24 reviews
Karen Beaumont

Dial, 2004

One of Our Favorites

+ Wonderful rhyme and rhythm appeal to toddlers and preschoolers
+ wonderful
+ Wonderful book! A must have for little ones!
+ Best children's book ever!!!
  
  











  



  
Tiger on a Tree (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))4 reviews
Anushka Ravishankar

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2004

Tiger tiger burning bright, in the forest of the night

+ This Book is Fantastic!
+ Brilliant word/image union
+ A Truly Original and Daring Picutre Book
  
  











  



  
Polar Bear Night (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards))14 reviews
Lauren Thompson

Scholastic Press, 2004

A Captivating Bedtime Book

+ Lovely book
+ Feel the night fever, night fever...

While many children's bedtime books are trite and redundant, every now and then you find one that's unique. "Polar Bear Night" is one of those books, and it immediately became a favorite of both kids and adults in our house. It has a sparse visual style that's also very interesting - much ...
  
  











  



  
Guji Guji (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger ...20 reviews
Chih-Yuan Chen

Kane/Miller Book Pub, 2004

Children's Book

+ Very creative story, also teach a lesson
+ enjoyable
+ Son Loves It!
+ Enjoyable Book for the Whole Family
  
  











  



  
The Neighborhood Mother Goose (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))9 reviews

Amistad, 2004

Modernizing Mother Goose

+ The Neighborhood Mother Goose
+ Multicultural
+ Making nursery rhymes relevant in my 21st-century classroom
  
  











  



  
Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains5 reviews

Carolrhoda Books, 2004

Lots of fun and some Spanish too!!!!

+ Too much fun! The devil gets in over his head!
+ Great teaching tool
+ Please, Tio Antonio. Don't throw me in the briar patch!
+ Me love Love and Roast Chicken!
  
  











  



  
If Not for the Cat (Horn Book Fanfare List (Awards))4 reviews
Jack Prelutsky

Greenwillow, 2004

If not for this book / And the witty poems it makes / I would hate haiku

+ A Teacher's Perspective
+ poems on animals
+ Magnificent!
  
  











  



  
Sidewalk Circus (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))6 reviews
Paul Fleischman

Candlewick, 2004

The circus of life!

+ What's Wrong With This Picture?
+ Sidewalk Circus
+ For the inquisitive at heart
  
  











  



  
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))3 reviews
Don Brown

Houghton Mifflin, 2004

Odd boy out is one great book!

+ Excellent book for "special kids"
+ Relatively (ha ha) good

Odd boy out is a wonderful book with nice illustraions of the life of Albert Einstein. Albert was born a fat baby with a big head. He had a bad temper and was condsidered very odd. He didn't like to play sports, and he was disturbed with the things other boys liked. Einstein grows and soon ...