Board books for 6-18 months:
Amazing Baby Five Little Ducks! and Rainbow Fun!
Graphics by Mike Jolley and Emma Dodd (Silver Dolphin Books, $5.95 each, 16 pages)
A fun, interactive way to introduce colors and numbers to small children. Books have vivid colors and fun rhymes, cutouts in the pages add visual interest and make the books fun for baby.

Fiction for Grades 1-3
Walter’s Pond
By Bill Farrell (Lower Lane Publishing, $8.95, 14 pages) A timeless story of mischief starring three young boys searching for a good fishing hole. The detailed pencil illustrations are highlighted with spare color, and will bring young readers back again and again. The rhyming verse in the story makes it perfect to read aloud together.

Fiction for Grades 4-6
My Half Day
By Doris Fisher and
Dani Sneed (Sylvan Dell Publishing, $16.95, 32 pages)
Fun with fractions—the whole book is built around “camp fraction” with visual math clues all over the page. A fun story about a boy’s strange day offers plenty of opportunities to have fun while learning new math concepts. Three pages of activities in the back of the book offer opportunities for further learning.

Non-Fiction for Grades 5 and up
It Wasn’t Much: Ten True Tales of Oklahoma Heroes
By Jana Hausburg (Forty-Sixth Star Press, $19.95, 123 pages)
In our Internet age, it can be difficult to draw older children into the joys of reading. But this book, which highlights the real-life adventures of Oklahomans incorporates sidebars and popout boxes, along with references for further learning in other books, Oklahoma locations, and Internet sites.