Oldham County Public Library
Children's Book Suggestions
Each week we will be providing book suggestions to help you select great books your children will love! This week we are featuring Funny Picture Books and Readalikes for the popular author Raina Telgemeier!
Books can be placed on hold and staff will gather them and you can pick them up at our drive-thru at the Main branch in LaGrange or curbside at South Oldham and Mahan M-Thur 1-7 PM and Fridays 1-5 PM or in person beginning June 29th.
Still don't see what you are looking for? You can fill out the form and have librarians select books based on your preferences. FIND ME A BOOK!
Count the Monkeys
Kids will giggle as they count all the animals that have frightened the monkeys off the pages.
The Princess and the Pony
Princess Pinecone would like a real war horse for her birthday, instead of which she gets a plump, cute pony--but sometimes cuteness can be a kind of weapon, especially in a fight with dodgeballs and spitballs and hairballs and squareballs.
Children Make Terrible Pets
When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods, she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train.
This Book Just Ate My Dog
When her dog disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella calls for help. But when the helpers disappear too, Bella realizes it will take more than a tug on the leash to put things right.
Dooby Dooby Moo
While Farmer Brown sleeps, his animals prepare for a talent show at the county fair.
Aliens Love Underpants
Illustrations and rhyming text reveal the true reason aliens visit Earth is that they deem underpants so much fun to play with.
We Don't Eat Our Classmates
When the class pet bites the finger of Penelope, a tyrannosaurus rex, she finally understands why she should not eat her classmates, no matter how tasty they are.
Stuck
When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things.
I Will Chomp You!
A monster tries to chomp any reader who wants to go past the first page of the book in order to keep his cakes safe.
The Book With No Pictures
In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what.
Dragons Love Tacos
Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
Who Wet My Pants
When Reuben the bear brings doughnuts to his forest friends, they discover that his pants are wet and he angrily accuses them of the dirty deed.
Interrupting Chicken
Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
Rhyming Dust Bunnies
As three dust bunnies, Ed, Ned, and Ted, are demonstrating how much they love to rhyme, a fourth, Bob, is trying to warn them of approaching danger.
Polar Bear's Underwear
Polar Bear has lost his underwear and he asks his friend, Mouse, to help him find it.
Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. EVER.
Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.
Dear Sweet Pea
Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist.
Be Prepared
A misfit girl and her brother attend summer camp, where they struggle with primitive plumbing, snobby tentmates, and boys-versus-girls competitions.
Camp
A graphic novel about venturing off to summer camp for the first time and stepping out of one's comfort zone, navigating new experiences, and the satisfaction of blazing your own trails.
El Deafo
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
Invisible Emmie
The lives of two middle school girls, one a quiet artist, the other a popular overachiever, intersect on a day shaped by a misdelivered note, crushes, humiliations, boredom, and drama.
New Kid
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one.
Real Friends
When her best friend Adrienne starts hanging out with the most popular girl in class, Shannon questions with whether she and Adrienne will stay friends, and if she is part of the clique.
Roller Girl
A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart
Sunny Side Up
Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida, where she befriends Buzz, a boy completely obsessed with comic books, and faces the secret behind why she is in Florida in the first place.
All's Faire in Middle School
Homeschooled by Renaissance Fair enthusiasts, eleven-year-old Imogene has a hard time fitting in when her wish to enroll in public school is granted.
Roll with It
In the tradition of Wonder and Out of My Mind, this big-hearted middle grade debut tells the story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected turn when she moves to a new town.
Oldham County Public Library
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Phone: 502-222-9713