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| Picture Storybooks |
 Bill Peet’s books
The illustrations for all Bill Peet’s picture storybooks are made in fantastic color pencil style. The animations of the machinery and animals are what taught our children the principal of personification. Bill Peet use rhyme, his text and vocabulary is not “dumbed down”. The most popular are:
• Katy the Red Caboose,
• Randy’s Dandy Lions,
• Hubert’s Hair Raising Adventure,
• Zella and Zodiac,
• Kermit the Hermit,
• Return to Shady Glade,
• Kweeks of Kookatumdee.
Patricia Polacco’s books
Patricia Polacco has the remarkable way of showing life of various cultural and religious groups through her stories and her pictures. She deals with the Amish, Jewish and Orthodox Faiths. She also demonstrates how the characters of her stories learn lessons from how to read, pride and love. Her famous books are:
• Thunder cake,
• Chicken Sunday,
• Tikvah Means Hope,
• The Bee Tree,
• Just Plain Fancy,
• Thank You, Mr Falkner
• Pink and Say
Edward Ardizzone books
Tim in Danger
Ginger is tired of life on dry land. He left a note for Charlotte and Tim saying he's run away to the high seas. Charlotte and Tim decided to find him. They have no money. To sign on with a ship's crew is the only way out. A dreadful fog surrounds their ship with miserable results – but the adventure is just starting! Your children will enjoy Ardizzone's witty prose and pictures which create a vivid portrait of the comical, but always gripping, escapades.
Tim All Alone
Tim has had a long holiday, after which he comes back home and find that his parents have disappeared. The courageous Tim makes up his mind to search the whole wide world, if necessary, to find them. Many people propose help, but sometimes their help is the last thing he needs! Tim's humorous adventures are a never-ending source of pleasure, both fantastic yet extremely real, and are beautifully evoked in Edward Ardizzone's lyrical watercolor illustrations.
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