2nd Grade Reads

Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.

Doggo, an older dog, learns how to welcome and accept a young puppy into the household.

"Max isn't a typical cat, but his loving owner still sees the best in him"--

The Eisner-nominated creator of Jane’s World presents the graphic-novel story of a floppy-eared puppy whose unabashed energy completely upends the quiet world of an anxious rescue dog and a plump, snarky kitty.

A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work the overnight shift in this picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George...

Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear snow, from the scrape of a shovel on a sidewalk to the quiet pats of snowman-building.

Two spud siblings face off in a series of epic challenges in this first “delightful laugh-on-every-page” (Booklist) installment of a hilariously silly graphic novel chapter book series from the bestselling creator of the Narwhal and Jelly books. Rot is a mutant potato who wakes up feeling great, maybe even…the greatest in the world! But that only makes Rot’s brother Snot the grumpiest in the world. The only solution? An epic contest to prove...

Sometimes the biggest stories come from the smallest beginnings ... Meet Tad. She's the smallest tadpole in a big pond, and lives there with all her tadbrothers and tadsisters. Although something else lives there too ... BIG BLUB! And when everyone else starts to disappear, Tad starts to wonder if Big Blub will get her too ... Or is everyone else going somewhere else; somewhere better? And if so, will Tad ever get there too? A big story about a tiny...

Late at night, squids creep from the ocean to the reader's house, where they leave inky doodles on the bathtub, walls, books, and more, then escape in time to avoid the blame.

"Infused with jubilance and warmth, this luminous, lyrical picture book celebrates the people and the work that put food on our tables"--