The Red Book (Author / Illustrator: Barbara Lehman)

For a book without any words, this one tells its story beautifully. A little city girl finds a red book in the snow on her way to school. Some very magical things begin to happen as she looks inside the book, only to find a little boy on a beach in a faraway land looking through a red book back at her. Pick up “The Red Book” to find out how things end up. I share the illustrator’s love of maps, and therefore found this picture story enchanting.

Soup for Supper (Author: Phyllis Root / Illustrator: Sue Truesdell)

A wee small woman has a lovely garden. That is until the giant Rumbleton comes along to pick everything in it for himself. Find out how the wee small woman outsmarts the giant to get her vegetables back and what she discovers about friendship in “Soup for Supper.” You might even want to learn the giant Rumbleton’s soup song in the back of the book.