Square Fish
Kids rescue dad from evil across time and space.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
The past life of a dog from a shelter is imagined by a young child.
Henry Holt
An action figure get trapped and a boy with his construction toys rescues him.
Atheneum Books
A huge scary looking fish tries to fit in & make friends.
Little Tiger Press
A crab embraces his strengths after saving the life of his Octopus friend.
Candlewick
Humpty's shy sis rescues him when he falls doing graffiti.
Egmont
Different perspectives (even from the cat) show the freeing of a mouse family from a trap.
Simon & Schuster\Beach Lane.
This wordless book involves a clown who befriends a farmer after falling off a plane.
HMH Books
A mom must remember her childrens last food request to rescue her kids from a hungry witch.
Candlewick
In a uncaring city, a hurt bird is rescued & nursed by a compassionate boy..
Scholastic
The garbageman ruins a hide and seek game, now off to the dump to rescue his lost friend.
Dial
Santas family tries to move to Florida but is stopped by a blizzard, reindeer and elves rescue the trapped family.
Clarion Books
An mini alien spaceship hides from an Earth kitty and communicates with ants and a ladybird for help to escape.
Kids Can Press
Intimidating cat police check a kind hearted cat librarian who secretly harbors mice in her home.
Philomel
This adoption fable shows that an out of place or misunderstood kid can feel like an unwanted bear.
Dragonfly Book
The Bible story about the chosen animals fitting into the ark that God told Noah to build.
Random/Schwartz & Wade.
A hole by a tiger, catches animals tring to help a frog, the selfish tiger winds up alone in the hole in the end.
Dutton Books
A young family turns an old empty droopy house with low self-esteem into a happy historic home.
Atheneum Books
An artist overcomes fear of a dragon using love, ingenuity, artistic vision and creativity.
Square Fish
A pig wins its wings and befriends an artist who rescues him from an evil man who forces the pig to perform.
Farrar Straus Giroux/ Frances Foster.
A true story about a young Ham radio operator who uses Morse code to save hurricane survivors in Florida.
Dutton Children's Books
The folktale of a long haired girl who meets and reunites with her prince after a long ordeal.
Viking Books
A red truck comes to the rescue by pulling a bus through the ice and snow and up and over a hill.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A robot in a rubbish heap bonds and gives shelter to a bluebird he befriends.
David Fickling Books
A brave pilot mouse that delivers mail, gets help from an elephant when she has problems.
Chronicle Books
A girls imagination is sparked by objects whose shadows are transformed into friends who help her with a wolf problem.
Puffin Books
A shy extroverted mouse jumps out of his shell to help the babysitter who fell down his steps.
HMH Books
Outside a boys window he sees a violent world of racial tensions & riots, his cat is missing and his apartment is on fire.
Disney-Hyperion
A birdloving girl tried to save 40 million Chinese people, but chasing away the Sparrows caused the locusts to thrive.
Roaring Brook/Neal Porter.
A garbage truck changes into its alter ego, a snow plow to save the city from a blizzard.
Michael Di Capua Books / Hyperion
An elderly man gets stranded on an island with a smart parrot who helps him escape.
Henry Holt
A non-conventional book that eats a dog, and then eats anyone who starts searches for the missing dog.
Clarion Books
A hot summer day brings a thunderstorm to a farm, farmers rescue an upset chicken & find a soaked kitty.
Candlewick Press
A bilingual tale of affording a beach trip and the longing and saving up to bring relatives to America.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A sad tiger in India runs into a village & up a tree, it is captured & set free, it runs off with a smile.
Holiday House
A peaceful coexistence starts when a tapir saves a leopard from a hunter by teaching him to move quietly.
Sleeping Bear Press
A true story of a cabin boy whose life was saved by the ships lucky cat, the ship was the Titanic.
Harcourt Brace /HMH Books
A lady who sees animals as friends instead of food rescues them from a market and makes them veggy soup.
Houghton Mifflin
Elephants help get the lazy sloths motivated to rescue them & get them on Noahs Ark.
Clarion Books
Mice run away from home, their adventure leaves them shipwrecked and rescued while helping readers count to 3.
A silly truck who loves to jump off of things gets stuck under a bridge, and other trucks help free him.
Putnam Juvenile
A fairy tale spoof has a germ obsessed prince trying silly things to wake the snoring princess before the kiss of life.
HarperCollins
A Gator, Owl & Snake from the Hokey Pokey Swamp become a girls pet and help her escape the boogeyman.
Aladdin
A little mousey is sad because her family is in different forms of trouble, she rescues them & saves the day.
Kane/Miller
This book connects kids to elderly people and nursing homes as a boy helps a woman with memory loss.
Aladdin
Citizens unite as the wind takes everything in town away and shoots it all up into the air.
Harcourt/Gulliver
A world record is set by a woman swimming across the English Channel in 14 hours.
Candlewick
Change the world by your greatness
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
True story about a 17 year-old girl who struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Michael Di Capua Books Hyperion Books for Children.
A boy learns to believe in himself after his escaped rabbit teaches a bear to hide in a magic hat.
Hachette Little, Brown & Co
A tiger in a stovepipe hat gets tired of living proper gets naked and runs around free.
Harry N. Abrams
A silly baby elephant behaves like a playful kitty & even sleeps on the TV set.
Puffin Books
A pig gets bathed, fattened and massaged by outwiting an aggressive fox who finally collapses from exhaustion.
Little, Brown Books
A new pair of socks give a chick confidence to go down the big kids slide & talk to the President.
Dutton
Elephants show unconditional love no matter what their kids do or say that might be wrong.
An Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum Books
With all the circus performers sick, Olivia takes over all their roles.
Little, Brown Young Readers
A dog goes to the beach to try to meet a new friend.
HarperCollins/Michael di Capua.
A confident underdog fools a king, avoids the devil and marries a princess.
Greenwillow Books
A mouse refuses to give up his fuzzy security blanket so his mom makes it into handkerchiefs he can carry.
Minedition
A clever cat helps get his impoverished shoemaker master jobs and overcomes a cunning ogre.
HMH Books
A girls first ride on roller coaster in an amusement park goes well with her dad.
Puffin Books
A boy conquers his fears by rooming with a monster that he can relate to, one that scares easy.
Candlewick Press
A tiny fly enjoys annoying the biggest animals he can find and escapes to buzz another day.
Harry N. Abrams
Coming from just outside the French Quarter in New Orleans was a man whose trombone was twice as long as he was.
Dial Books
An underdog story about a girl mechanical genius and her airshow adventures with her doggy.
Little Simon
Inspiration for new graduates facing change & reality.
Dial
A grumpy cats adventure, makes her discover that only she can make each day purrfect.
HarperCollins
Rhymes calms down a student who constantly needs to control himself.
Boxer Book
A horse takes his barnyard friends for a faster and faster ride into a haystack.
Little, Brown and Company
A grumpy boy wakes up on the wrong side of the bed too often and becomes a monster.
Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Anger leads to the H word, now he must fix things with Mom.
Random
Naughty rude ducks wreck havoc upon their Aunts home by acting silly.
Square Fish
Body parts divided come together & cooperate to get things accomplished.
Candlewick
A monkey describes all the emotions experienced going through his day.
Katherine Tegen Books
Racoon friends follow each other lead until one starts acting up in school.
HMH Books
A teddy bear is not included in a sleepover, but when his friend reveals his bear, the other bear becomes invited.
Albert Whitman & Company
A unique girl with disabilities, stays positive by being her unconventional self.
Walker Books or Candlewick.
A little duck gets through tough times & long journeys one step at a time.
Philomel Books
A picked on girl, becomes loud & mean to try to overcome being ignored.
Houghton Mifflin
Teacher tonsils havoc leaves kids realizing that watchful eyes are everywhere, so behave. Great disguise Miss Nelson.
HMH Books for Young Readers
Kids in classroom 207 meet their match when the new teacher arrives.
Albert Whitman & Company
A school principal wipes out the school budget buying ties, so he sells his ties to help build a playground.
Candlewick Press
A good behavior guidebook that lists no no's for naughty kids.
Aladdin
A fox loses his tail after stealing milk, now he needs help from others to get his tail back.
Puffin Books
A new talking birthday doll almost makes a girl forget her mean old teddy bear.
Houghton Mifflin
Over 2 dozen variations of quiet that children are familiar with in their daily lifes.
Eerdmans Books
A boy who blushes easily gets bullied, the girl who started it trys to stop the problem she created.
Eerdmans Book
Sharing books creates friendships, and quiets noisy neighbors.
Albert Whitman
Facial expressions and simple actions in this book show kids how to socialize and communicate.
Holiday House
A peaceful coexistence starts when a tapir saves a leopard from a hunter by teaching him to move quietly.
Disney-Hyperion
This Elephant and Piggie adventure shows the frustration of waiting for a surprise until dark.
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
This example of reverse psychology keeps warning you as you encounter monkeys, toucans, alligators and a trap.
The Blue Sky Press
Hurt feelings unfold a girls story of why her artistic approach painted a tree blue.
Simon & Schuster
Family love overrides the ups and downs of moods, feelings and circumstances.
Puffin Books
A wolf becomes a protector instead of a hunter, after plans to fatten up a chicken backfires.
Little, Brown Books
An enthusiastic baby bear, gets frustrated searching for a new friend.
Farrar Straus Giroux
After 6 seasons an empty lot becomes a house in this wonderful construction book.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A chicken chaser becomes a chicken protector, in this tale of never giving up.
Disney-Hyperion
A seasonal friendship changes, showing loss and the importance of making new friends.
Macmillan
A freeze in place competition between friends almost makes them a foxes dinner.
Candlewick
Waking up to a bath, then playing, eatting and bed again is the kids main cycle.
Millbrook
The turtle brain beats the pompous might of the rabbit, in front of a great variety of animals.
Scholastic
The garbageman ruins a hide and seek game, now off to the dump to rescue his lost friend.
Charlesbridge
Before building his home, he climbs the spout, a chair, a mouse & a fan.
Harcourt Children's Books
Hard work and lots of boring practice will let a rat make beautiful music from his violin.
Dial Books
Hungry animals on a farm expect bread after refusing to help grow, harvest, prepared or bake it.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
After her parents deny her a dog, she walks an imaginary dog around town.
Viking Books
Refusing to be left out of a beach day trip, an optimistic toy monkey creates various plans.
Kids Can Press
A girl creating a mysterious gadget becomes frustrated until she discovers persistence by never really giving up.
Kids Can Press
Intimidating cat police check a kind hearted cat librarian who secretly harbors mice in her home.
Harcourt/HMH Books
A joyous Spanish grandmother storytells to her grandson after doing her morning routine & work.
Viking/Penguin Young Readers
Tales of brothers dealing w monsters, 3 pigs & Santa in the summer
Greenwillow
Taking care of your possessions and responsibility are taught by a busdriver who loves his own car.
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
A bio that shows a young boy's determination to change South Africa.
Greenwillow Books
A mouse refuses to give up his fuzzy security blanket so his mom makes it into handkerchiefs he can carry.
Puffin Books
A history lesson about Colonial Times where a family creates things to sell at the market.
Down East Books
A road trip gets stopped by animals blocking the path, no one can move them until Granny steps up & tries.
Roaring Brook Press
A determined girl wants a pet so she uses her imagination to create some until her parents give in.
Random House
A man battles the wind who keeps blowing off his hat into different obsticles he must face.
HarperCollins
A mother stays steadfast in searching for her runaway bunny in their game of hide and seek.
Puffin Books
Mice teach colors, days of week, numbers and how to be patient & look at the whole picture to see the truth.
HMH Books for Young Readers
A jeep of sheep somehow goes on and on and on.
Roaring Brook/Neal Porter
Some bandit monkeys, an ice cream truck and a postal worker helps a girl deliver an elephant companion to her aunt.
Philomel Book
This problem and solution book, shows a boy throwing items into a tree to wedge out his stuck kite.
Roaring Brook Press
A confident boy marks his accomplishments & feats by turning them into rhymes.
Clarion Books
A grumpy old man loves to feed the birds but squirrels take over, and even wear bird costumes.
Little, Brown Books
This fable of perseverance and humility proves that slow and steady can win.
Harry N. Abrams
Coming from just outside the French Quarter in New Orleans was a man whose trombone was twice as long as he was.
Disney-Hyperion
This Elephant and Piggie adventure shows the frustration of waiting for a surprise until dark.
Putnam Juvenile
A fairy tale spoof has a germ obsessed prince trying silly things to wake the snoring princess before the kiss of life.
Viking Book
A muskrat & possums competetion must deal with the compromises & toleration of friendships.
Random
Naughty rude ducks wreck havoc upon their Aunts home by acting silly.
Aladdin
Each time a boy is invited to the castle to meet with royalty, he always brings a different zoo animal.
Dutton
Elephants show unconditional love no matter what their kids do or say that might be wrong.
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books
Racisms hold on society is questioned by biracial friends who are open to meeting new people.
Candlewick
A chick starts a friendship outside its comfort zone with a piggy and works through any differences.
Simon Spotlight
Friends disagree but stay buddies even when one doesn't get the part they want in the school play.
RAW Junior/TOON Books.
A smelly swamp monster who loves pickles becomes friends with what fears him most, a human boy.