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Ages 5 and up. Here is a sophisticated 3-dimensional pop-up just right for the youngest listeners up through school age children, who will love this ...  Read more  »

Illustrating the creativity and enthusiasm of multi-cultural preschool children, Dragon Dancing begins with the children listening to a story about dragons. Afterwards, the kids take ...  Read more  »

Brilliantly illustrated, We depicts the whole of human history from an evolutionary viewpoint. Beginning in a riverbed in Africa, humans evolve then begin to travel, ...  Read more  »

Schubert, Ingrid and Dieter. ELEPHANT SOUP. Honesdale, Pa.: Lemniscaat, 2009. A celebration of the absurd, this will appeal to children who can chuckle over the ...  Read more  »

Mrs. Lovewright, an odd and rather chilly woman, attempts to find warmth and coziness with a cat. Dylan delivers groceries to Mrs. Lovewright and when ...  Read more  »

Schubert, Ingrid and Dieter.  ELEPHANT SOUP.  Honesdale, Pa.: Lemniscaat, 2009. A celebration of the absurd, this will appeal to children who can chuckle over the ...  Read more  »

Silvey, Anita (ED) Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book Roaring Brook Press A fascinating compendium of thoughts about children’s literature ...  Read more  »

Told as a series of linked short stories all occurring on All Hallows Eve (Halloween) from 1943-1949, When the Whistle Blows is a superb novel ...  Read more  »

Spillebeen, Geert. Age 14  Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2009. A fictionalized account of an Irish child soldier, Patrick Condon, who died when he was age ...  Read more  »

Enola Holmes, estranged younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes begins her fourth mystery in one of her brilliant disguises as she learns Lady Cecily’s ...  Read more  »

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Seuss-a-thon

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Annual Seuss-a-thon event draws book-lovers of all ages to the Center for Children's Literature.


Drafts on Display

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Exhibit featured original work by children's book authors and illustrators.