Picture Book

The “Henry” and friend the narrator is referring to are bears. And this contest is the simple premise of the lovely Weston Woods film version of D. B. Johnson’s award-winning picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg.

Recently, we spoke with Barbara Woodhouse, director of the University of Florida’s Center for Children and the Law, about one of the most memorably books of her childhood, The Country Bunny.

You’re hearing a little from Franz Schubert’s “Noble Waltz” No. 4. The reason the recording is so grainy is because it’s a thin, small vinyl disc that was included in a pocket inside the back cover of a small, square picture book for children called A Little Schubert by M. B. Goffstein.

A new picture book for younger children about Bessie Coleman, the first African American to become a pilot, has flown into the bookstores just in time for National Aviation Month, which is celebrated in November.