STARTED & FINISHED:

Emberley, Ed. (2001). The wing on a flea: a book about shapes. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company.

[Thankfully, at the end, he includes a note about how fleas DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE WINGS... and aren't rainbow colored. The guy is still absolutely brilliant in my mind. Just such a great sense of graphic design, color, shape and form.]




Heide, Florence Parry. (1981). Treehorn's treasure. New York: Holiday House.

[Another Treehorn story - this one finds him discovering that one of the trees in his back yard has leaves that are turning into dollar bills. Once again, adults ignore him, and the dark humor flows. These books CRACK ME UP. One more in the trilogy to go.]




Gerstein, Mordicai. (2005). Carolinda Clatter! New Milford, CT: Roaring Brook Press.

[This guy has a real gift. He won the Caldecott a few years ago for a book about a guy who walked on a wire between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. I've been a fan of his since I got one of his books through a book sale that's about reincarnation and the afterlife. This one's got a giant who becomes a mountain and the citizens who reside on him try to keep quiet so that he won't wake up. Until... Carolinda Clatter is born and she just can't keep from singing. Gorgeous illustrations - this guy will surely win another Caldecott in the years to come.]



Lobel, Arnold. (1969). Small pig. New York: HarperCollins.

[Was shelving Early Readers the other day and realized that this was probably the ONLY Arnold Lobel book that I'd never read. It's clearly an early one - done a few years before the Frog and Toad books and such - as the writing and art styles are QUITE up to par yet. It's cute though - about a pig who loves to burrow in the mud, but when his owner cleans up his pen has to look elsewhere for a mud bath. Unfortunately, he finds himself stuck in fresh cement.]

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