Plainview Public Library Board of Trustees recommend their favorite picture books:
George Czapiewski recommends:
ISBN: 9780060256654
Published: 1964
The love between a boy and a tree continues through the years of his boyhood and into his old age. Reading level Spache 2.9.
Nicole Dominguez recommends:
ISBN: 9780399226908
Published: 1994, c1987
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.
Jeff Henry recommends:
ISBN: 9780920236826
Published: 1980
When a fierce dragon destroys her castle and clothes, and carries off the prince she was going to marry, a brave and resourceful princess cleverly outwits the dragon.
Mary Schneider recommends:
ISBN: 9780399230035
Published: 1994
An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.
Carla Tentis recommends:
ISBN: 9780920668375
Published: c1986
This is the story of how a little boy goes through the stages of childhood and becomes a man. It is also about the enduring nature of parents' love and how it crosses generations.