The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum by Kate Bernheimer & Nicoletta Ceccoli

The text is kinda meh but the pictures are awesome!  I love the illustrations, they kind of remind me of Japanese style.  Super whimsical.  Honestly the text is forgettable, it didn't draw me in at all--but maybe that's because I was too mesmerized by the illustrations.

 

Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable by Nicola Davies

This book is . . . AWESOME!  Did you know that rabbits eat their own poo?  Or that a blue whale's poo is 10 inches wide and SEVERAL yards long?  Betcha didn't!  Did you know that hippos make a trail of poo to follow back to the river, kind of like Hansel and Gretel. 

 

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

SO MUCH FUN!  I really loved this book as a kid, especially the funny ones.  And the pictures are so scary too.

 

Way Up in the Arctic by Jennifer Ward

Counting book with lots of Arctic animals.  The end of the book gives lots of facts about the Arctic like Polar bears have black skin.  And there's also a song.

 

Detective Small in the Amazing Banana Caper by Wong Herbert Yee

Cute rhyming picture book about a fox detective who tries to find who stole all the bananas.  Is it the ape, nah, that'd be too easy!  Fave pic is of a couple of panda grocery store owners looking aghast at a pile of empty banana crates in the middle of their store.