Stray Sock Sewing: Making One of a Kind Creatures From Socks by Daniel

Yup, just Daniel--no last name.  OK this book is super cute!  Daniel lives in Taipei and used to do advertising.  These sock creatures are super adorable and he poses them in such cute pictures!  I love the pig socks best!

 

The Librarian From the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler and Jared Lee

Kid with one wild imagination!  The Librarian laminates kids who talk in the library.  Hysterical!  We should start doing that :o)

 

The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown

Nice pics, it won the Caldecott.  Follows an island as the seasons change.  There's a weird cat that talks to the island.

 

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

This book has been around since before I was a kid!  I remember Care's nephew Alex mailed her a Flat Stanley for her to take pictures.  When I was a kid, I never read this book.  Anyway, here's the story:  A bulletin board falls on Stanley and he gets flattened.  The benefits of being flat is that his parents can just mail him when they go on vacation, he can slip under doors and he can catch bad guys by pretending to be part of a painting.  Eventually his big brother uses a bike pump to inflate Stanley :o)  Super cute story with lots of imagination.

 

Bats at the Library by Brian Lies

Rhyming picture book about a bunch of bats who fly into a library after closing.  They read and imagine themselves as storybook characters. 

 

Little Smudge by Lionel Le Neouanic

Random artsy book.  There's a black smudge who wants to make friends with all these color shapes.  At first they shun the smudge but then he teaches them how to be supercool and soon they're forming neat pictures together. 

 

Little Miss Chatterbox by Roger Hargreaves

Ha ha ha ha!  I read this book when I was a kid over at Manor Library.  Those books are a bit bigger now but still super fun.  Little Miss Chatterbox finds a job at the bank but talks so much her boss doesn't get anything done so she gets fired.  Then she works as a waitress but the same thing happens, etc.  Finally she finds a job as the operator who says, "At the tone, the time will be 9:00."