Cool Daddy Rat by Kristyn Crow
This is a scatty book.  I like the pictures--they're sketch-like.  It's about a scatting rat.  Not my favorite but I'm biased because I'm not all into overly onomatopoeic books.  It'd be cool if Cab Calloway would have read this one!

Say Hello by Jack & Michael Foreman
Love the pictures in this book, they're simple crayon-y charcoal drawings.  This is a very simple rhyming book about a dog and a little boy who are both lonely.  A group of kids invite the dog to play with them and the dog, in turn, invites the lonely boy to play.  Sweet book.

Thea's Tree by Alison Jackson and illustrated by Janet Pedersen
LOVED this book!  It's a different format from other children's books because it's a series of back and forth letters.  A science teacher assigns a science project and a student named Thea plants a mysterious purple seed in your yard.  She writes to various experts trying to identify the type of plant but then all these weird things start happening!  One day she finds a golden egg near the trunk, then a harp and some gold coins.  Soon you see a giant chasing Jack and the Beanstalk!  This book is really imaginative and clever, I likey a lot.

Hannah Duck by Anji Yamamura
The illustrations in this book are Japanese woodcuts :o)  This is a simple picture book about a duck that reluctantly goes for a walk on Sundays.  One day the parakeet tags along and Hannah has a much better time.

To Be Like the Sun by Susan Marie Swanson and Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Nonrhyming poetry book about how a sunflower grows.  Not my favorite but I despise all nonrhyming poetry. 

 

Fleas! by Jeanne Steig and illustrated by Britt Spencer

A lovely book that I would totally buy :o)  An old man pets a dog and is given fleas.  He trades the fleas for a woman's talkative uncle.  Then trades for a giant mass of cheese and then for a banjo, etc.  He comes across all sorts of interesting characters.  This book reminds me of that Craigslist story about the man who traded a paperclip and eventually got a house.  In the end, the man ends up watching a circus with all his traders and the original dog :o)
 

Peg Leg Peke by Brie Spangler

This is definitely one of those WTF picture books, but in a good way.  Peke is a Pekingese dog with a wooden leg.  Right, cue the WTF.  You're the narrator and having a convo with the dog and decide that Peke could be a pirate.  The two of you go find the treasure which happens to be the blanket that make everything better.

 

Hen Hears Gossip by Megan McDonald

Remember that game "telephone" where you get in a line and whisper a sentence down your string of friends?  This book is like that but set in a farm.  Hen hears something and passes it on to her animal friends.  The message starts off with "Sadie the dog has a thorn!" and, with each rhyming telling, morphs until eventually it goes back to, "Hen!  Hen!  You're lazy, fat, and ate all the corn!"  This is a simple book that warns of the harm in spreading gossip.

 

A Perfect Snowman by Preston McDaniels

Here is a perfectly beautiful tale.  A boy makes a perfect snowman with round coals, a carrot nose, his dad's umbrella, top hat and scarf.  Everyone admires the snowman and eventually go back in their houses for winter.  Soon a family of hungry rabbits comes by and begs the snowman for its nose.  A cat begs for its scarf and a little girl begs for its coals.  Eventually the snowman is just three big balls of snow and when the sun comes back and the earth turns to spring, the snowman melts and goes up to heaven where he is met by the little girl with the coals.