Story Time Picture Books

It's my turn this week to read to preschoolers during Story Time at my local public library. See what happened my first day here.

I recently solicited picture book recommendations from professional writers and illustrators in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia--either their own work or their favorites, which sometimes happen to coincide. :-) Thanks to all of the members of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Southern Breeze Region, who responded. I haven't made a decision about what to read yet, but the list, below and in no particular order, is well worth keeping. It should be a great study resource for the pre-published writer (yours truly) as well as for moms with preschoolers.

And by the way, you can find ALL of these books on Amazon.

• All of the Dr. Seuss books
  
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. & Eric Carle
• What Makes You Giggle? by P. J. Shaw and Tom Brannon
• Abby Cadabby's Rhyme Time by P. J. Shaw and Tom Leigh
• Spooky Sleepout! by Eric Suben, P. J. Shaw, and Joe Ewers
• Look Both Ways: A Cautionary Tale by Diane Z. Shore, Jessica Alexander, and Teri Weidner
• Bark, George by Jules Feiffer (2 votes)
• The Wide Mouth Frog by Keith Faulkner and Jonathan Lambert
• If You’re Happy and You Know It by Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner
• Almost all books by Eric Carle
• Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
• Little Penguin’s Tale by Audrey Wood
• The Napping House by Audrey Wood and Don Wood
• Shaping Up the Year, Tracey M. Cox and Samantha Bell
• If You Give (a Moose, a Mouse).... series, by Laura Joffe Numeroffand Felicia Bond
• If You Give a Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond<
• The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
• A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
• Agatha's Feather Bed by Carmen Agra Deedyand Laura L. Seeley
• A Fly Went By by Mike McClintock
• Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey
• The Stray Dog by Marc Simont
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin (2 votes)
• Olivia by Ian Falconer
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad, No Good Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz
• Trosclair & the Alligator by Peter Huggins and Lindsey Gardiner