A Prime Present

1 - Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too) by Keith Negley is a bold, stylish, and simple picture book for younger kids that shows a wide range of tough, masculine archetypes (pirates, superheroes, ninjas, wrestlers, bikers, astronauts, etc) openly expressing a variety of raw emotions (grief, loss, disappointment, guilt, fear, etc). It ends with a really tender father-son moment (two tough guys who love each other very much), and the endpapers have really cute vignettes of the fathe

1 - The Butterfly Garden - book by Laura Weston. There are lots of great butterfly books out there- some are more technical / educational and some pure art / fiction. This one is so simple but so beautiful. With just a few words on each page that do indeed chronicle the butterfly lifecycle in an abstract way, this lift the flap book features bold black and white prints that lift to reveal bright developing butterflies underneath. It's simple enough for very young toddlers

1 - For Just One Day - Super stylish illustrations and extremely catchy (like, stuck in my head a lot) rhyming verse are the hallmarks of this book about both the pleasures of imagining yourself to be something different, but the ultimate good of just being yourself. 2 - Dress Up Capes & Masks - A busy, buzzing bumblebee is one of the animals profiled in the book, but any cape / mask combo perfectly fits with the theme of trying animal identities on for size! This is a fun se

This book has been around for over 75 years and it's as much fun as ever! (and it has one of those colorways that makes me want to redecorate a room around it) I have fond memories of my brother stacking every hat and hat like thing up on his head, toddling around saying "caps for sale!". after we rediscovered it at the library the other week I had a gang of kids ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 begging me to read it over and over...and over. There are so many cute caps for littles