New to Fallsburg Library: New Picture Books/Easy Readers

It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all. . . . .

Triceratops has an itch. . . so does Pterodactyl. . . and Brontosaurus. . . and T-Rex! But Dino-Mo reminds them all of the BIG rule: Dinosaurs do not scratch! What's an itchy dinosaur to do? Find out in this hilariously charming beginning reader by author/illustrator LeUyen Pham.

Llama Llama learns at school. Counting, writing, reading, rules. Friends and school -- there's nothing better. Llama learning all the letters! Anna Dewdney's beloved Llama Llama is growing up and learning to read! Throughout the school day, the teacher helps Llama Llama and the other children practice their letters, shows word cards, reads stories, and brings them to the library where they can all choose a favorite book. By the end of the day, Llama Llama is recognizing words and can't wait to show Mama Llama that he's becoming a reader!

From the bestselling author of Dragons Love Tacos comes a whimsical re-telling of the chupacabra folktale, written in a blend of English and Spanish A long time ago, a girl named Carla lived on a goat farm with her father, Hector. One night, a goat disappeared from the farm and turned up flat as a pancake. Only one creature could do that--El Chupacabras, the goatsucker! Legend has it that El Chupacabras is a fearsome beast, but you can't believe everything you hear...and sometimes the truth is even more interesting. Told in equal parts English and Spanish by bestselling author Adam Rubin, and cinematically illustrated by acclaimed Hollywood creature creator Crash McCreery, this lighthearted take on a modern legend is not told in the traditional bilingual style. Each sentence is half-Spanish/half-English followed by a repetition of the same line translated the other way around. This mirroring technique allows the languages to intermingle equally. A fun and unique way to introduce either Spanish or English to new readers. A note from author Adam Rubin: "I decided to tell this story in an unusual way to explore the beauty of harmony. It's easy to dismiss the unfamiliar, but compassion takes a little more effort. With so many people trumpeting divisiveness right now, it's more important than ever to teach kids that there is more than one way to understand the world."

It's that time of year again: show-and-tell day! Sister has to find something extra-cool and fun to take to school for show-and-tell. But Sister is not sure what to bring, especially since show-and-tell is becoming more like show-off time. With Brother's help, will Sister finds something truly special to bring to class? Young readers will love reading about their favorite brother and sister duo in this 8x8 picture book. The Berenstain Bears' Show-and-Tell is another fun addition to the classic New York Times bestselling series.

Take a tour of Bear Country with the Berenstain Bears as they show Cousin Tex around all the wonderful sights in this bargain-priced paperback storybook. They visit everything from Bear Town, museums, caves, and even Bear Country's most prized highlight--the Old Honey Tree! The Berenstain Bears: Welcome to Bear Country is another exciting addition to the classic New York Times bestselling series.

Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael García Bernal), and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places.   So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island--she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories--joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening--Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island.  As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: "Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you."   Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us--to our families, to our past and to ourselves.

(Children's). Explore Music! Learn music through creative play, including online activities. This inventive story uses music, crafts and creative play to help children experience the fun of making music out of "found sounds." The Main Street Parade has been rained out, but Mickey and his friends make their own parade as they discover items around the house that can be used to make musical instruments. The book includes special unique online activities including a video read-along, an audio sing-along, and activities to explore sounds and sound makers. Ages 4+.

Celebrate the imagination—and the love between father and son—with a fun, rhyming, and totally original picture book. On a hot summer’s day, a young boy playfully sets out on a “crocodaddy hunt” in the lake. Following the creature’s shadow, dark and wet, he’s soon taking a wild ride on the grinning croc’s back. And when they leave the water, something wonderful happens: Crocodaddy transforms into…just DADDY. Bright, energetic illustrations (complete with wily crocodile in Dad’s swim trunks) highlight the story’s humor and warmth.    

Get ready to laugh at this lighthearted, heartwarming, and funny approach to books! Children sometimes feel the task of learning to read is overwhelming, but the winning combination of rhyme and illustrations here provide a perfect way to present the subject in a comical, engaging, and nonjudgmental way. The contrast of enormous dinosaurs in kid-sized bedrooms (with human parents) adds irresistible humor as families explore the do's and dont's of reading. Both practical and engaging, this book shows dinosaurs getting into all sorts of reading-related trouble! But of course, in the end, the dinosaurs learn how to carefully handle their books, read out loud, and read a lot! Each book in the endlessly popular How Do Dinosaurs series is a combination of childish antics followed by a gentle lesson -- with over 14.5 million books in print. This book, the twelfth, ends with pages designed to get your own little dinosaur excited about learning to read -- especially this word: Dinosaur!

Discover how colorful life is with this 8x8 storybook that's inspired by all of your favorite Crayola colors! Are you having a colorful day? Some days are mauvelous...and others are screamin' green, with more surprises than a roller coaster. No matter what, each day is an outer space adventure. If you embrace the many shades of life, any day can be a sky blue day!

All aboard for Dreamland! Hold on to your pillow because the Goodnight Train is taking off. Roll that corner, rock that curve, and soar past mermaids, leaping sheep, and even ice-cream clouds. You won't want to miss a thing, so whatever you do, don't . . . close . . . your . . . eyes!             

Learn to express yourself with this bright and cheery storybook from Crayola that connects your emotions to different Crayola colors. Happy is a color that makes me smile. It is a bubbly, warm, delicious color. Happy is macaroni and cheese. I'm feeling macaroni and cheese! What color is happy to you? Brave is a color that makes me want to conquer the world. It is a daring, courageous, confident color. Brave is wild blue yonder blue. I'm feeling wild blue yonder blue! What color is brave to you? We all know what being blue with sadness feels like, or being red with anger, or green with jealousy, but what does it feel like to feel macaroni and cheese? What emotion does jazzberry jam or jungle green mean to you? Kids will love using Crayola colors to express their feelings in this storybook with illustrations as vibrant as those emotions.

Dude! You have to read this book. It's totally about this platypus and this beaver who are friends. They want to go surfing but dude, there's this shark who's in the ocean, too. But don't worry. This shark approaches and you'll never guess what happens.

Meet Emmett, Katy Duck's little brother! In this Level 1 Ready-to-Read, Emmett puts on his bright blue cape and becomes Super Emmett! Emmett loves his bright blue cape. He wears it to the park, he wears it to the store, and he even tries to wear it to bed. With his cape on, he isn't just Emmett, he's Super Emmett! So what happens when Emmett's bright blue cape goes missing? How will he be super now?

Join Fancy Nancy in a fabulous story about the love and battles between siblings, complete with fancy stickers! JoJo is telling all of Nancy's secrets--she just can't help it! Nancy begins to think she's the worst secret keeper ever. But when Bree comes over to watch a movie that only Nancy has seen before, Nancy realizes it's very hard to keep a secret. Could it be that maybe JoJo isn't the worst secret keeper, after all? Perfect for shared reading with your little sibling, from the bestselling dazzling duo Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser.  

In this 24-page illustrated book, written from Vampirina's very unique point of view, we learn all about the new girl ghoul on the block and explore her amazingly monsterful world!

In "Going Batty," the new girl in town is looking forward to making some new friends! But when her family's strange ways spook the neighbors, Vampirina goes a little batty trying to scare up a play date.

Sneezing? Coughing? Taking a sick day? Don't worry, you'll be feeling better soon thanks to this hilarious picture book from Coy Bowles, guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band. Full of encouraging--and super-silly--rhyming advice on how to face sick days with courage and a positive attitude, When You're Feeling Sick is just what the doctor ordered! Comes with a sheet of stickers to bring a smile to every sick kid's face.

Join Fancy Nancy in a fabulous story about friendship and sharing, complete with fancy stickers! Fancy Nancy has so many jewels that her jewelry boxes are overflowing! (That's a fancy way of saying she can't even close them.) But when she and Bree decide to have a jewelry swap, Nancy starts to miss what she gave away--her old charm bracelet. She wants to ask for it back, but what if Bree wants to keep it? Perfect for shared reading with your best friend, from the bestselling dazzling duo Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser.

The African grasslands teem with classic animals. Children will "stalk" like lions, "squirt" like elephants, and "slurp" like giraffes! Plus they will count to ten and sing along to the classic tune of "Over in the Meadow" while learning about the animals of the African grasslands.

This fabulous new picture book is designed to teach children about appropriate behavior while they enjoy a fun, heartwarming story. This book features a child from Miss Clayton's class and explores the action of staying calm. This story is written in clear, simple text, and Stuart Lynch's charming illustrations will keep children engaged and entertained. A spread of information for parents, which offers questions to ask children to engage them more deeply in the topic, is included and provides parents with an opportunity to build on the issues presented in the book.

These fabulous new picture books are designed to teach children about appropriate behavior while enjoying fun, heart-warming stories. Each book features a different child from Miss Clayton's class and explores a particular behavior: being kind, sharing, staying calm, and teamwork. The stories are written in clear, simple text, and Stuart Lynch's charming illustrations will keep children engaged and entertained. Included in each book is a spread of information for parents, which includes questions to ask children to engage them more deeply in the topic. It provides parents with an opportunity to build on the issues presented in the book.

This fabulous new picture book is designed to teach children about appropriate behavior while they enjoy a fun, heartwarming story. This book features a child from Miss Clayton's class and explores being kind. This story is written in clear, simple text, and Stuart Lynch's charming illustrations will keep children engaged and entertained. A spread of information for parents, which offers questions to ask children to engage them more deeply in the topic, is included and provides parents with an opportunity to build on the issues presented in the book.

This fabulous new picture book is designed to teach children about appropriate behavior while they enjoy a fun, heartwarming story. This book features a child from Miss Clayton's class and explores being kind. This story is written in clear, simple text, and Stuart Lynch's charming illustrations will keep children engaged and entertained. A spread of information for parents, which offers questions to ask children to engage them more deeply in the topic, is included and provides parents with an opportunity to build on the issues presented in the book.

This all-new storybook features the characters from Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol! Marshall, Skye, Rubble, and the rest of Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol take to the sea to rescue Cap'n Turbot's sunken boat. Will they save the day, or will a giant octopus leave them high and dry? Girls and boys ages 3 to 7 will love this full-color storybook, which features a card game and over 30 stickers!

All Aboard! Get to know Buddy the T. rex and his adoptive Pteranodon family as they live and learn in the Mesozoic Era in this Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read based on Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train! This book also includes two pages of dinosaur data with info on different species! Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, Buddy and Pals was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a fun story with words they can actually read and starring their favorite dinosaurs? Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains no more than 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn fifteen sight words and eight words from four word families. So come on and get reading with Buddy the T. rex!

Marvel's Captain America: Civil War pits hero against hero! Captain America and Iron Man lead two teams of heroes in a clash that will change the course of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In Hawaii Pug-O, Bingo and Rolly's adventures lead them all the way to the Aloha State in this book that comes with stickers and an adorable Puppy Dog Pals poster!

In Design a Dog, the pups visit the local Build-a-Bear-type store. But when they get mistaken for stuffed toys, they'll have to show what kind of stuff they're really made of!

Feel the beat inside you when you play along with the Drums of Motunui! This beautifully illustrated book with online music, video, and drumming allows children to discover beat, rhythm, and the sounds of Motunui's drums through activities and creative play with characters and artwork they'll recognize from the Disney movie Moana. Includes online activities such as: video read-along, audio sing-along, and activities to explore sounds and sound makers. Singing and making music provide important benefits to children as they grown and learn. EXPLORE MUSIC books encourage children to be free to explore, play, and develop musical ability at their own pace which can establish a life-long love of music.

Polar Bear and Cub explore the beauty of their home in the Arctic as the seasons change. Throughout the journey, Polar Bear reassures Cub that no matter what changes occur in nature-snow falling in winter, flowers blooming in spring, air warming in summer, and leaves changing color in fall-the loving bond between them will never be broken.

Go on a rhythmic romp through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras to meet the prehistoric creatures every child loves: dinosaurs! With colorful artwork and a funky fresh beat, Dinosaur Rap introduces children to paleontology, the relative sizes of dinosaur species and the abstract concept of time.