Good Books for Little Friends

Over in the Meadow Louise Voce’s whimsical creatures make this cute, traditional counting rhyme with animal sounds fun to look at long after the numbers are learned.

I’ll Meet You Halfway by John Schindel Fuller Frog and Titus Turtle hadn’t seen each other for a long, long time, so they decided to meet halfway between their homes. Each took a gift for his friend—but each gift was ruined along the way. It didn’t matter, though, because their best gift to each other was their friendship.

Petey’s Bedtime Story by Beverly Cleary Petey loves to go to bed. After his bath, stories read by both Mommy and Daddy, and his prayer, it’s time for “the baby story.” Daddy starts it, but Petey takes over and tells his version—one that parents will chortle over as well as children!

When Grandma Came by Jill Paton Walsh Grandma has seen a desert island, a whale in the ocean, polar bears playing, kangaroos hopping. She’s even sailed on the Nile River. But no matter where she’s been, she always comes back and tells Madeleine that nothing she’s seen is “as heaven-and-earthly as you!”