Summer
Picture books, nonfiction, and poetry for young children. Click here for a print-friendly version of this list.
Picture Books (JE)
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Tafolla | What Can You Do with a Paleta? A Mexican American girl celebrates the paleta, an icy fruit popsicle, and the many roles it plays in her lively barrio. | BILINGUAL SPANISH JE Tafolla |
| Cornwall | Jabari Jumps In a sweetly appealing tale of overcoming your fears, it captures a moment between a patient and encouraging father and a determined little boy. | JE Cornwall |
| Elya | Our Celebracion! A rain shower does not dampen a Latino family's enjoyment of their town's summer celebration. | JE Elya |
| English | Hot Day on Abbott Avenue After having a fight, two friends spend the day ignoring each other, until a game of jump rope helps them to forget about being mad. | JE English |
| Goode | The Most Perfect Spot Jack tries to have a perfect picnic with his mother, but things do not turn out as they expected. | JE Goode |
| Gordon | The Last Peach Two indecisive bugs contemplate eating the last peach of the summer. | JE Gordon |
| Hills | Duck and Goose Go to the Beach Duck wants to go on an adventure. Goose doesn't. He doesn't see the point. Why would they go to the ocean when they're happy where they are? | JE Hills |
| Kloepper | The Not-So Great Outdoors A kid accompanies her family on a camping trip, and soon finds the simpler things are just as sparkly as the city she's used to. | JE Kloepper |
| Lloyd-Jones | Goldfish on Vacation Three goldfish live in a bowl in an apartment in the city, until one summer they get to go on vacation--in a fountain. | JE Lloyd-Jones |
| Luciani | How Will We Get to the Beach? The reader is asked to guess what Roxanne must leave behind as she tries various means of transportation to get to the beach. | JE Luciani |
| Metzger | The Ice Cream King When Teddy visits a new ice cream shop, he enters a magical kingdom where he can eat all the ice cream he wants. | JE Metzger |
| Ochiltree | It's a Firefly Night On a warm summer night, a young girl and her daddy catch fireflies. | JE Ochiltree |
| Pfeffer | Summer Supper Follow the creation of a family meal from the farm to the picnic table on a warm sunny day. | JE Pfeffer |
| Phillipps | Monkey Ono Left behind when his family goes to the beach, Monkey Ono comes up with a series of plans to join in on Beach Day. | JE Phillipps |
| Pizzoli | The Watermelon Seed After swallowing a watermelon seed, a crocodile imagines a scary outcome. | JE Pizzoli |
| Watt | Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping Scaredy Squirrel takes a trip through a campground and finds out the wilderness is meant to be enjoyed up close. | JE Watt |
| Wenxuan | Summer Under the sun on the dry grassland, animals fight over a bit of shade until they learn a better way. | JE Wenxuan |
| Williamson | Where Are You? A snake wants to spend the day with his friend, but they get separated. The search takes them many places on a summer day. | JE Williamson |
| Young | Zoomer's Summer Snowstorm When a young dog's snow-cone machine fills the backyard with snow, his imagination runs wild and turns a hot summer day into a cold wintry one. | JE Young |
| Ziarnik | A Lullaby of Summer Things Sights and sounds of summer mix with memories of a lovely day at the beach as a household settles in for the night. | JE Ziarnik |
Nonfiction, Folktales & Poetry
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Gillman | The Kids' Summer Fun Book: Great Games, Activities, and Adventures for the Entire Family Your guide to having fun throughout the summer months, with adventure ideas, refreshing treats, and great games for the whole family to play. | J790.1 GI |
| Goldstone | Super Summer A photographic picture book provides a guide to topics linked to summer. | J 508.22 GO |
| Katz | Mosquitoes Are Ruining My Summer! And Other Silly Dilly Camp Songs Familiar tunes are given new words relating to summer camp. | J782.42 KA |
| Raczka | Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle-- this brand new poetic form turns word puzzles into poetry. | J811 RA |
| Rotner | Hello Summer! This photo essay explains the basic changes to the natural world that come in summer. | J 508.22 RO |
| Taus-Bolstad | From Milk to Ice Cream Follow the steps in the production of ice cream, from milking a cow to a frozen treat. | J641.8 TA |
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