A dog, a dragon and a fish that eats peas are the lead characters in some of this season's best children's books.
Imagination is the key in choosing a book to be read to or by young children.
Many books have engaging stories and colorful pictures, but the best ones take children to new worlds and encourage their minds to roam beyond the book. Children and adults will love the changing paces of the poems and the clever watercolor paintings by Florian. This is a classic. Nearly everyone has seen flip books with divided pages that allow readers to mix and match the head, body and legs of different characters. The assorted illustrations can be flipped around to create, perhaps, a new character with the head of a woman in a hat, the body of a man in a suit and the feet of a deep-sea diver.