Children & Juvenile 🦄 Top 10 Titles
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
As is tradition, in our last email of the month, our agents Allison Olson and Monica Meehan have named their top 10 titles in a category that is particularly dear to us at DropCap: Children’s and Juvenile content.
This time, the selection is even more special because we decided to showcase the catalog of a long-established partner, Familius, whose stunning books are familiar (pun intended) to many of us for the quality of their content and the beauty of their illustrations. Without further ado, here is our TOP 10 LIST. We hope that you enjoy this selection.
Top 10 Titles — Children & Juvenile
After a While, Crocodile (Familius)
Age range: 3 - 5 years
With art and text by Brad Sneed, this lift-the-flap picture book turns a mother and daughter into different animals as they go through their morning routine.
Hide-and-Seek Monsters (Familius)
Age range: 2 -4 years
Some monsters are hiding inside of this book. Do you think you can find them? Go have a look! The monsters are coming out to play in this delightfully spooky lift-the-flap book! Open the sarcophagus to find the mummy inside. Peek inside the kitchen cupboards for a ghostly surprise. Ghosts, vampires, werewolves, skeletons, zombies, and more haunt the colorful pages. Perfect for Halloween, but not holiday-specific, so you can read it to your monster-lover all year long!
This Book is Not for You (Familius)
Age range: 5 - 7 years
Packed with everything a kid could never want—nothing funny, gross, cool, cute, or silly—this picture book is really not for you. There definitely aren’t any monsters or ninjas, and you can forget about aliens. You probably won’t even like this story. But you’re going to read it anyway, aren’t you?
Nocturnal Nico (Familius)
Age range: 5 -7 years
Nico doesn’t want to sleep—he must be nocturnal! Like the owl in the tree, Nico is alert. Like the bat flying in the night, Nico isn’t afraid of the dark—or is he? With comic-like illustrations and obscure nocturnal animals throughout, this picture book will help your little night owl get to bed. Hopefully!
Robots Don’t Make You Go to Bed (Familius)
Age range: 4 - 8 years
When Owen wins a robot kit, he eagerly assembles his robot and programs it to do whatever he wants—ice cream for breakfast, right? But the robot isn't quite what he expected. Robot and Mother pits mom against machine as a boy figures out who he needs most, and how love makes every relationship better.
Finding Mr. Trunks (Familius)
Age range: 3 - 5 years
Annemarie Riley Guertin’s heartwarming picture book Finding Mr. Trunks highlights the positive impact of social media and brings people together to help #FindMrTrunks. With quirky illustrations by Andrea Alemanno and a magical world of people and animals, this modern tale of finding home and the power of collective kindness is sure to give you all the heart eyes.
The Blue Canoe (Familius)
Age range: 3 - 5 years
For nature lovers with a growing family, The Blue Canoe is a poignant picture book conversation that gently addresses a child’s natural worries about shifting family dynamics while celebrating the unchangeable bond between mother and child. The details of the animal families they encounter bolster the child’s confidence and reinforce the mother’s loving reassurance that even though a new baby will bring change, some things are as reliable as the sunrise.
Baby Sees Things That Go (Familius)
Age range: 0 - 1 years
Created for the youngest readers and their developing eyes, this high-contrast board book introduces all your favorite vehicles, including trains, planes, taco trucks, and even rockets. With simple text and trendy images and patterns by Janna Steagall, Baby Sees Things that Go is the perfect tummy time companion for Babies on the go!
They Work (Familius)
Age range: 5 - 8 years
The newest addition to June Smalls’s nature series, They Work is a gorgeous nonfiction picture book about life for a hive of honeybees, complete with factoids.
Chalk the Walk (Familius)
Age range: 3 - 5 years
Join a pair of adorable siblings as they explore the incredible power of a piece of chalk to transform the world around them. Joined by people of all ages from their neighborhood along the way, they use their bucket of chalk to make some sidewalk magic. With rhyming text by Chelsea Tornetto and increasingly colorful illustrations by Laurel Aylesworth, Chalk the Walk is a celebration of imagination.
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