Not Just for Kids

So, middle schoolers, do you think you are just too cool or too mature to read picture books? Did you even know that we have a great collection of picture books here in the middle school? No, you didn't? Well let's give a little taste of some of the cooler cool picture books you might want to borrow...or sneak off to read in the stacks.

Location: Picture Books E Kru

The Fartiste, doesn't sing or dance or act, but his art -- the fart -- makes him wildly popular in Paris at the Moulin Rouge. Based on the real life of Joseph Pujol and told in rhyme.

Location: Picture Books E Hug

When a mother instructs her children to behave according to Emily Post's rules of etiquette, they respond by insisting that Mother follow the rules, as well. Includes information about Post and selected items from her 1922 book.

Location: Picture Books E LOW

Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.

Location 973.3 KOE

Tells the story of the first cross-country automobile trip in 1903 by Dr. Horatio Jackson and mechanic Sewall J. Crocker.