Orem Library

In this endearing board book, mom and baby enjoy a day out on the farm, picking carrots, cuddling sheep and finally coming home for a warm bath and snuggly bedtime.

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a disturbingly familiar noise: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the intruder tries to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender....

"The shape of the earth is a sphere." So begins The Shape of You, as a mother tells her toddler daughter about the shapes that make up their lives--and the reader is invited into their cosy world. There's the triangle hill their house is on, the square of their kitchen table, the cubes of ice in their drinks... There's also the shape of light (all the colours of the sunset) and the shape of the wind (a scarf flapping). As the shapes transmute from...

Little Hippo loves to play pretend, and today he's going to be a shopkeeper! Little Hippo has a goal--he is determined to buy his mama a special gift. With goodies filling his shop, Shopkeeper Hippo is excited to see his many friends stopping by for a treat. Filled with silly animal antics and culminating in the beautiful bond between mother and child, this heartwarming story shows all readers the joy in being kind and the impact of being brave.

Eleven-year-old Juniper sets out on a wild adventure to find her mother and protect a public park just days before Christmas.

Writing from experience, Tamara offers empathy and lots of parenting suggestions tat are both fun and enlightening.

Every Tuesday, Lola and her mother go to the library to borrow new books for Mom to read to her before bedtime.

Every day before Little Fish goes to bed, he says good night to all his friends--Red Fish and Blue Fish, Eye Fish and Sky Fish, Bumble Fish and Upside-Down Fish--before cuddling up with Mommy Fish for a long night's sleep.

Freya and her mum have gone to a little cabin to get away for a while. The light has gone out of their lives since Freya's dad passed away. Freya isn't sure about going sledging, but when she meets a magical fox in the snow, she can't help but follow him into the forest--and on to a thrilling adventure.