In the Snow by Sharon Phillips Denslow, illustrated by Nancy Tafuri combines a gentle rhyming text with Tafuri’s glorious pictures. The book shows the joys of feeding animals seeds in the winter. Children will get to see the range of animals hiding in the white landscape until they are tempted out by the seeds. Because the text is brief and rhythmic and the pictures are clear, this is a great choice for toddlers. It will lead to discussions about feeding animals and birds and other things that the children enjoy doing in the snow. Add this one to your snowy story times.

A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa by Jonathan London, illustrated by Denis Roche is a perfect book to share with truck-mad toddlers. Unlike many truck picture books, this one has a rhythm and a flair as well as an underlying story of a family building a new house and moving into it. The colorful illustrations are clear and bold enough to project easily to large groups of children. Combine that with the popular subject and lots of truck noises for the group to make, and you have a winner for story times and lap reading.