Adrian

These are some crazy dinosaurs: they play volleyball, they dance, they're every color under the sun. And this might be a book that you wouldn't mind reading over and over and over. Well, you'll like it at least through the three hundredth read.

Whenever we're feeling down, we read this book. McClure's woodcut illustrations are sweeping and gorgeous, and Rylant's text is a bit of sunshine and hope. We give it to all our new baby friends.

The repetition in this one is fun, but Adrian loves the bluish illustrations of the whole house piling on top of one another to take a snooze.

This one is a recent fave. Great illustrations and it's about the Highline in NYC so it has fun local appeal. Once he's old enough to understand, Adrian will totally love visiting the Highline in person after reading about a boy who began a beautiful garden on top of an elevated old subway line.