The Favorite Book by Bethanie Deeney Murguia (Preschool)
Do you have a favorite color, or plant, or food? How do you know? Sometimes it is easy to pick a favorite and sometimes you keep changing your mind. This book poses questions and gives ideas about what is means to have a favorite but points out that the choice is up to the reader. ▸ Get it at the Library
Snow Fun! by Mike Wohnoutka (Toddler, Preschool)
On a snowy day, friends Croc and Turtle each make a list of what they want to do. Croc wants to spend all day outside and Turtle wants to stay indoors. Since they want to play together, they agree to do everything on both lists, but it doesn’t go well. Can they find a compromise that will let each friend do their favorite snowy day activities? ▸ Get it at the Library
Now by Antoinette Portis (Toddler, Preschool)
Young children excel at living in the moment. This book lets us walk with a little girl as she talks about her favorite things. Each of them is her favorite because it is the one she is interacting with right then. She experiences joy by just spending time doing exactly what she is doing and loving it. ▸ Get it at the Library
Maya Papaya and Her Amigos Play Dress-up by Susan Middleton Elya (Preschool)
Maya Papaya loves to play dress-up with her pets and stuffed animals. Every season she chooses different clothes for her animals based on the weather as they play outside doing all kinds of activities, from swimming to sledding, to jumping in mud puddles. Small children will easily relate to Maya and her need to adventure with her furry friends and will see themselves in the playful games they enjoy together. The rhyming text includes Spanish vocabulary. ▸ Get it at the Library
In My Room: A Book of Creativity and Imagination by Jo Witek (Preschool)
When you’re playing in your own room, you can be anything you want to be and go anywhere you want to go, just using the power of your imagination (and art supplies!). You can travel the globe and go on a safari or sail the seven seas. You can be a doctor, teacher, or executive. The sky’s the limit! And when the day is over, you can become yourself again, safe in your room. ▸ Get it at the Library
This Beautiful Day by Richard Jackson (Toddler, Preschool)
Sometimes events that happen to us is out of our control. What we can control is out attitude about the bad things and how we handle it. In this book, despite the wet, chilly weather outside, the children make the best of each day. And sometimes, if we wait, the sun will come out after all. ▸ Get it at the Library
These resources were recommended by Samantha Blanquart, an Early Literacy Outreach Librarian with Ready to Read Resource Center. Visit their website for more info about early literacy or to check out one of their reading kits for young children.