Need new books for your dinosaur storytimes? Kids clamoring for more dino books? Try these 2026 gems: a chicken proud of her dinosaur ancestry and a dinosaur with only one thing on his mind: pizza! @LKellerBooks @DISD_Libraries #bookaday 🐣🐔🦕🦖🍕

I remember our 5th grade teacher read this to us after lunch/recess, that’s gotta be over 50 years ago! Pretty faithful adaptation of original story to graphic novel format, less text dense than I expected, illustrations nicely done. @penguinrandom @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

When Lulu’s loving family recognizes that she must be lonely during the day, they take her to visit a bonobo sanctuary, however LuLu isn’t sure what to do. Based on an actual bonobo in the Dem Repub of Congo. Engaging, cute illustrations! @AGFordArt @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Cow decides she wants a taste of night life. She encounters nocturnal people, hoping the farmer won’t miss her while she’s gone. The chunky, neon bright colors contrast nicely with the black and white. Look to the cat for some comic relief 😹5⭐️@jesshgn @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Ancient Korean art of face reading allows the Park women a look into past lives & loves. That moment when souls who have spent centuries in different love stories recognize each other in this lifetime. But where is Cassia’s Fated? What about Ellis? 5⭐️ @penguinusa #bookaday

So glad #kidlit has changed for the better since I was the target audience!! I loved to read biographies about girls/women but I only remember ugly solid color bindings with white stamped words. Talking about these books for @DISD_Libraries #bookclub today! #NFfriday #bookaday.

“Things can be both facts and untruths.” Good quote for the beginning of the book, as the story winds between 1968 Oklahoma, Native storytelling, and a hand written journal from the 1920s. Lots of family drama & cultural unrest. @LevineQuerido @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Fun back to school/spooky story! Rhyming words flow smoothly between the repeated questions: Does this school have ghosts? Is this school haunted? What could go wrong on the first day at a new school? Luckily these ghosts are cute! @CharlotteGunnu1 @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

KPRH neighborhood book club: choose another book by Ariel Lawhon. 3 nurses are the first female POWs, trying to survive and treat their patients during WWII Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Based on the Angels of Bataan. @ArielLawhon @KrisMcmorris @SusanMeissner #bookaday

Harmony is used to being the only black girl on a ghost tour. She’s trying to determine if ghosts really exist. Great ending - just enough scary suspense for MG readers. Love the authentic dialog, cultural & historic aspects of the story. 5⭐️ @WriteinBK @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Gorgeous illustrations, so much detail & shades of color, used to describe the various stages of Rose’s escape from Armenian genocide and journey to safety in the United States. Hope the Caldecott committee is looking at this one! 5⭐️ @simonschuster @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Fantastic surprise: narrated by @justjuliawhelan!! Joy has narcolepsy, she does a podcast with Benny, who is her best friend. If it doesn’t kill you, it makes you a survivor. Really loved this book - can you say book hangover? 5⭐️ @Flatironbooks #bookaday

Fun, comic book style, life cycle of a puffin family at Eastern Egg island in Maine. Love the page with mama puffin sitting on her egg, showing cross section of embryo development. Illustrator volunteered on Eastern Egg island. @MacKidsBooks @DISD_Libraries #NFfriday #bookaday

When people start buying machine-made cloth that holds no stories, life in the city dims. Can Anansi bring back the weavers & city’s vibrancy? Bright multi-media illustrations! End notes: kente cloth & Anansi folktale tradition. @charlesbridge @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Late one night a family goes out on puffling patrol to help the young birds reach the ocean where food is plentiful while their wings continue growing. Excellent back matter included. Now I want to go to Iceland even more! 5⭐️ @ColleenPaeff @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Another cute addition to the Penelope Rex franchise. Penelope enjoys being the only dinosaur in her school, but then Patty Tops arrives and is better at a lot of things than Penelope, causing her some anxiety and insecurity. @RyanT_Higgins @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

A lonely, unpredictable bull elephant is calmed and engaged while hearing Paul play piano music. Example of music calming the savage beast. Based on actual events in Thailand. Lovely & lush illustrations, soft watercolor feeling. @SourcebooksKids @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Toby is awkward at flirting so Katie exchanges love lessons (even tho she has no boyfriend) for mandarin lessons, hoping to find her birth mother in Taiwan and reconnect. Love author note, esp her reluctance to read while learning English. @PenguinTeen @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Report for the principal of their MS: mix of text messages, transcripts of video/audio reports, emails, etc. explaining their desire to find out what happened to Ella & where she went. Multiple POVs really builds tension, sense of urgency! @ABRAMSbooks @DISD_Libraries #bookaday

Straightforward look at gender stereotypes, perfect for young children to understand, short, clear Q&A format. It’s all common sense, with the theme to let people feel the way they feel best about themselves. 5⭐️ @NubeOchoBooks @DISD_Libraries #NFfriday #bookaday