Check out this website for fresh ideas for children's literature:
Hope Is the Word
** The Animal Hedge by Paul Fleischman
** Too Many Frogs! by Sandy Asher
** A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
** Three Tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
** Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
** Max's Words by Kate Banks
** Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom