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Welcome To Our Current Book Collection

Please click on any book to learn more about it!

Newborn

Jumping Jungle
Tiger Tales (2004; 1-589257-31-6)
Baby's Little Library
Dorling Kindersley LTD (0-789467-98-4)
This colorful carrying case contains four chunky first word books that introduce numbers, letters, shapes, and colors to your baby or toddler.
Read To Your Bunny Very First Library Gift Set
Rosemary Wells
Scholastic Inc. (2006; 0-439871-90-5)
This box set includes three of Rosemary Wells's best-loved board books--The Itsy-Bitsy Spider, Old MacDonald, The Bear Went Over the Mountain, and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. The set also includes…

2 months

Babies on the Go
Linda Ashman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2007; 978-0-152058-86-9)
Babies are on the move in this exuberant rhyming celebration of all the ways animal parents carry their little ones. Babies and toddlers everywhere will love learning about how all the different babie…

4 months

Smile
Roberta Grobel Intrater
Scholastic Inc. (1997; 0-590058-99-1)
Candid photographs capture all kinds of babies with their many different smiles in a small, sturdy board book that promises giggles to babies who like to look at other babies.

6 months

Baby Talk
DK Publishing
Dorling Kindersley LTD (2005; 0-756609-86-0)
With expressive baby phrases and entertaining noises that are fun to read and stimulate talking, this book is tuned into a baby's developmental milestones.

9 months

First 100 Words
Roger Priddy
Macmillan (2005; 0-312495-41-2)
One hundred bright photographs of words a baby might learn in her first two years are laid out on bright, bold backgrounds.

12 months

Cleo's Color Book
Stella Blackstone
Barefoot Books (2007; 978-1-846860-60-7)
When Cleo the cat goes out to play, she observes a variety of colors in the things around her.

15 months

Jamberry
Bruce Degen
Harper Collins Publishers (2009; 978-0-061763-50-2)
A little boy accompanies a bear to Berryland where they have fun picking blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries.

18 months

Down On The Farm
Merrily Kutner
Holiday House (2008; 978-0-823421-77-0)
Simple rhyming text describes the sounds and activities of animals during a day on the farm.

24 months

Sleepy Places
Judy Hindley
Candlewick Press (2006; 0-763629-83-9)
Three yawning, nodding, and flopping children explore the best places for both animals and people to take a nap or go to sleep at night.

3 years

Down by the Station
Will Hillenbrand
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1999; 978-0-152018-04-7)
In this version of a classic song, baby animals ride to the children's zoo on the zoo train. When the group of baby animals becomes overly playful, an engineer has quite a challenging time trying to …

4 years

Lost and Found
Oliver Jeffers
Penguin USA (2005; 0-399245-03-0)
While trying his best to help a lost penguin that has shown up at his door, a boy journeys all the way to the South Pole, only to realize that the penguin was never lost.

5 years

Raising Readers Five Stories for Maine Children
Candlewick Press (2009; 978-0-763643-45-4)
An anthology of five picture books by authors and illustrators that create books in Maine.
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