Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Birthday parties are always fun for children. A group of children all born on the same day have a great celebration with watermelons.

Josefina spends her whole life shaping soft clay into a story. She looks out at the world and makes what she sees until her story is complete.

Penguins are portrayed as being very similar to human beings. The penguins get up, play, laugh, make friends, eat, exercise, and sleep.

Dumpy La Rue is a pig with a passion for dancing. All of the other animals, including his family, keep telling Dumpy that pigs can't dance. But Dumpy doesn't listen and soon all of the animals are dancing with him.

A king refuses to leave his bathtub despite all of the efforts of his royal court, until a servant boy pulls the plug.

A fence not only divides two properties -- it segregates two families because of their different cultures. Initial fears from the parents cause them to set rules that will forbid the friendship of their young daughters. Little did they know that their daughters would break the barrier as they climbed the fence together to see the world as it should be, not as it is.

A young child has a very special teddy bear. See the adventures they encounter as the seasons go by.

Something is amiss on this farm. All the farm animals have a cold and sound quite differently when they cough and sneeze!