2007

Thelonius Monster and eleventeen other monsters relish his fly pie recipe, a sticky sweet creation composed of prey from a dumpster, a sewer, and a pile of manure. Impeccable rhymes and exuberantly scruffy illustrations produce a delightful read-aloud.

Single-word questions cleverly illustrated with brilliantly colored, die-cut pages create the concept of opposites. Lifting a flap turns the black bat into a white ghost and the sun-filled day into a starlit night.

Mia’s friendship with the new girl Shaketta begins after they sit on a playground bench together to tie their shoelaces. Soft watercolors invite the reader into this warm, funny story.

Nancy adores the color fuchsia, thinks lace socks improve her soccer, and wishes her family understood how to be fancy. But she discovers that plain can be just right, too, in this exuberantly illustrated story about individual differences and familial love.

As a little girl and her brother wander home from school past Parisian landmarks in the early twentieth-century, the boy absent-mindedly discards his belongings one by one. Readers search the lively, detailed drawings to uncover his castoffs.