A Small Surprise by Louise Yates

PreK-2. A rabbit is too small to do many things, but just small enough to do big things. Overall, the message is that everyone has different abilities and limitations based on their size and talents. Limited text and detailed pictures make this a book that can be shared over and over, sometimes in the same sitting. The text does interesting things in this book as its placement on the page is ever-changing and certain words are emphasized within the text by their artistic font.

Polo and Lily by Regis Faller

PreK-2. This wordless book is read by looking from each brightly colored picture frame to the next like a comic book. Polo is a dog and receives a special visitor one day when Lily, a bunny, crashes into his treehouse on her magic cloud. The two friends play and eat together and then Lily summons her cloud and goes home. Polo misses his friend until he realizes that Lily left him a special gift to use so that they can keep in touch.

This is a great book to use when reading together as kids are encouraged to "read" the pictures and "tell" the story. Anything goes with wordless books, there's no wrong way to tell them!

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Alice sets off for an adventure when she follows the White Rabbit down his rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a land of pure nonsense, in this classic novel. Throughout her adventure Alice finds herself shrinking and growing resulting from eating and drinking any number of items. Sometimes her height or lack thereof works to her advantage, sometimes it does not. She meets starnge made up characters like the Jabberwocky and unexplainable characters like the Cheshire Cat who appears and disappears at whim. All creatures in Wonderland fear the Queens of Hearts and her horrible temper and as the novel ends Alice soon discovers why. The Queen of Hearts orders Alice's beheading after she expresses disagreement with the King's interpretation of the Knave of Hearts' poem which is judged to mean he is guilty of the crime of stelaing the Queen of Hearts' tarts. Alice awakens suddenly to find herself back at the riverbank where she must have doed off and visited the zany and unforgettable Wonderland.

Genre: Fantasy/Classic

Carroll, L. (1999). Alice in wonderland. New York: North--South Books.