Owlkids Books has been publishing children’s magazines and a complete line of children’s books for over 35 years now. Their new fall catalogue was just released, and our friends at Owlkids kindly sent us a handful of these new releases to share with you. Take this opportunity to check out this season’s newest children’s books aimed at ages 3-7 and scroll all the way down to enter to win this same collection!
The Little Book of Big Fears by Monica Arnaldo
Everyone is afraid of something, big or small, and that’s what this little volume is about. At first glance, The Little Book of Fears is an illustrated ABC book, where each letter stands for a child’s name and the page describes his or her fear.
C is for Claire, who recoiled from legumes.
D is for Drew, who hid from raccoons.
But sharp-eyed children will notice that some letters are missing! Get to the end of this book and discover that the missing letters spell out GUTSY and BRAVE, good advice for frightened children. This was a fun way to start a discussion with my girls about facing their fears.
Once Upon a Rainy Day by Édouard Manceau
This is the fourth book from Édouard Manceau that we’ve reviewed (see our reviews for My First Color Dominoes, Presto Change-o!, and Look!). Manceau has a way of turning stories on their heads (sometimes literally, as in Presto Change-o!) that make you think. Once Upon a Rainy Day is no exception.
This is the story of a story. The actual story was rained out, so this book requires kids to imagine what would have happened had it been sunny out. Once I explained that they would need to imagine the characters and events described in the text, my girls got right into it. Tee described what she thought Oscar the bookish bicycle-riding pig, Amadeus the clever hare, Niles the flying squirrel (in a hot air balloon, thank you very much), and Popof the big-mouthed bear all looked like. The kids even made sound effects to match the text!
Dojo Daytrip by Chris Tougas
In this fun sequel to Dojo Daycare, the ninja boys and girls go on a field trip to the farm. Chaos ensues, and the little ninjas are right in the middle of it. But when their Master gets in real trouble with a runaway horse, the ninjas remember their creed, “Always help someone in need,” and they rush in to rescue him and the rest of the day. Told in rhyming couplets with lots of rhythm and repetition, this is a fun book to read aloud with the kids. They especially like shouting out, “YIKES! YEE-OW!”
Turn Off That Light! by John Crossingham
Turn Out That Light! is a fun, comic book style story about a sleepy hedgehog who wakes up because you, the reader, keeps turning the lights on and off by flipping each page. Tee loves reading this out loud. She gets a kick out of all the silly onomatopoeic sound effects and slapstick comedy, and she gets far too much joy from loudly proclaiming “Bumwaggle!”
Turns out we were only turning the light on to bring the hedgehog a glass of water. Silly hedgehog!
Kyle Goes Alone by Jan Thornhill
Kyle the young three-toed sloth has to go potty, and he has to make his way down to the ground to do it. But he can’t help but feel nervous about going that far all on his own.
We are in the midst of potty training here, so this was very timely for us. Kay will be starting preschool in a couple of weeks, and just like Kyle, she will have to “go” alone. This large, colourful book is beautifully illustrated with cut-paper collages featuring a host of rainforest animals who encourage Kyle along his way down to the ground.
We like searching the pictures to find the camouflaged animals, but when I have a three-year-old sitting on my lap, it’s a bit annoying to have to keep turning the book when the orientation changes from horizontal to vertical and back again.
An Inuksuk Means Welcome by Mary Wallace
As a parent, it’s important to me to teach my kids about other cultures, especially those indigenous to Canada. This lovely introduction to the Inuit language and culture is structured as an acrostic, where kids learn seven Inuktitut words about life in the Arctic, and the first letters of those words spell out INUKSUK. Each word is shown in English and in Inuktitut characters with a pronunciation guide.
I is for inuksuk, the stone messenger that stands at the top of the world.
N is for nanuq, the powerful polar bear of the North.
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Our girls love The Kissing Hand. I think we have read it 100 times 🙂
Currently, my daughter’s favorite book is “Mr. Brown Can Moo. Can You?” We have to read that one at least 10 times a day.
My daughter’s favourite book right now is Go Dog Go! Pretty much anything Dr.Seuss is popular!
My daughter is stuck on Cat In The Hat. I could probably recite the entire thing without even looking at the text.
Right now it’s Elephant and Piggie Books by Mo Willems 🙂
Green Eggs and Ham. Awesome classic!
Seem to be reading any of The Berenstien Bears’ books over and over and over …
My daughter really likes the PInkalicious series.
Our baby is due in December so he/she doesn’t have a favourite book yet. But my mother-in-law just hosted a nursery themed baby shower for us and each guest gave us their child’s favourite bedtime story and so now we have a lovely little collection including Llama Llama Red Pajamas, Jimmy Fallon’s Dada and Guess How Much I Love You, among others. We’re excited to find a favourite 🙂
My child’s favourite book right now is One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish!
My son Jesse always liked Jesse bear, what will you wear
My little love is into On the Night You Were Born while we wait for her sibling
She likes Green Eggs & Ham
My kids love books, period. I am not sure which is the favourite right now. It changes all the time!
My fav children’s book (as a child) was ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’.
I really like some that you have posted here too – will need to check them out!
One of my sons who is a teacher in England sent his nephews and nieces Gruffalo and they all love it. 🙂
My grandson loves the Pete the Cat books!
my step grandkids love anything Suess right now.
My niece loves any of the Dr Suess books right now, Green Eggs & Ham always is a hit.
Anything Robert Munsch, pretty much, especially Love You Forever.
My child’s favorite storybook is Wheedle on the Needle. It’s about a wheedle trying to get some sleep in Seattle by making it rain to stop all the people’s whistling.
She has a lot of storybooks that she likes, and no single favourite. Some of the ones she really enjoys are The Ice Cream Store (Dennis Lee), One Fish Two Fish (Dr. Seuss), and Interstellar Cinderella.
Miss R loves Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery.
My grandson’s favorite book is a collection of Mickey Mouse stories. He loves mickey Mouse. 🙂
So far my sons favorite book is anything to do with the alphabet!! But he is growing so much that his tastes are changing every day!
My kid loves Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.
I don’t have kids yet, but I always liked GO, DOG. GO!
Right now we are reading a lot of My Little Pony books, but we also like Berenstain Bears, Piggie and Elephant, Angelina Ballerina, Pinkalicious, etc.
My new baby grandson likes his fabric cloth book.
The baby puppy, one. This amazing prize pack would
make a great gift of reading good books for the little one.,
My son’s favourite book right now is a Ninja Turtles early readers book called “Pizza Party”
My granddaughter doesn’t have one favourite yet as she is experimenting with a few, I’m going to say though at my place it’s a number book that she grabs when she is at my house!!
My grandchildren don’t have just one favourite book. They love anything by Robert Munsch and all the Dr. Suess Books.
My kids really like The Birthday Book by Dr. Seuss.
Right now my little grandson loves the Five Little Monkeys Book. He wants me to read it over and over and he “reads” along with me.
My son’s favorite book was Strega Nona.
Mine loves cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
Favourite book: Love You Forever
Her favorite book would be Kyle Goes Alone by Jan Thornhill.
My son likes boom chicka boom boom
My 7-year old is currently reading a book called “Dino-Mike” and my 4-year old is on a Robert Munsch kick (latest one we’ve read is I have no clean clothes)
My 12 month old loves story time and insists that we read Little Red Riding Hood over and over. She also enjoys Ten Tiny Babies and Stanley’s Garage.
My son loves Laura Romanoff books such as Give A Pig A Pancake.
One of our great grandson’s favorite books is” Goodnight, Moon.” My children are all adults now, some having grandchildren. I think they really liked the Dr. Seuss’s books and our eldest son loved books on wolves.
My child’s favourite storybook is Green Eggs & Ham
My sons love “Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site”
My sons favorite book would be a personalized book I had made for him.
and my youngest loves any of the little critter ones!
It’s too hard to pick just one favorite but I loved The Velveteen Rabbit as a child.
If I won these books I would donate them to the book shelf space at the Reed center. This provides food , actiivities to inner city families of need
My granddaughter likes always like us to read “Hop On Pop” and “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Suess
My little one likes Bear in Underwear: Goodnight Underwear!