Childrens Books about Teamwork

Award-winning artist Jon J Muth retells the favorite tale of a selfish community who is tricked into creating a delicious soup from stones. Set in China in Muth's hauntingly beautiful watercolors.

Three strangers, hungry and tired, pass through a war-torn village. Embittered and suspicious from the war, the people hide their food and close their windows tight.

That is, until the clever strangers suggest making a soup from stones.

Caldecott Medal Winner

Rabbit saves the day in a most ingeneous way.

When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind.

From Caldecott Honor award winner Eric Rohmann comes a brand-new picture book about friends and toys and trouble, illustrated in robust, expressive prints.

The rivalry between Zinnia and Dot -- two plump, self-satisfied hens who bicker constantly over the superior quality of their eggs -- rages until a weasel steals all but one of their eggs and the two must join forces to protect the survivor.

This timeless story of having your cake (and eating it, too!) comes to life with Galdone's dynamic, amusing pictures.

A classic storybook for all young readers--and a cautionary tale for lazy ones. 

Little Red Hen is a time-tested tale about how we reap what we sow.

Caldecott Honor Award

Deep in the sea lives a happy school of fish. T

heir watery world is full of wonders, but there is also danger, and the little fish are afraid to come out of hiding… until Swimmy comes along.

Swimmy shows his friends how - with ingenuity and team work - they can overcome any danger.

Tiki struggles to recover from a game day fumble until his brother helps him out in this story about perseverance.

Tiki can’t believe it when the ball is knocked out of his hand in the Cave Spring Viking’s last preseason game against their rival Knights.

And when nobody wants to talk to him the next day at lunch, he feels even worse.

Can his brother and coach help him regain his confidence?

In this funny and zany picture book, villagers make a giant jam sandwich to trap the wasps that have invaded their town.

It's a dark day for Itching Down.

Four million wasps have just descended on the town, and the pests are relentless! What can be done? Bap the Baker has a crazy idea that just might work.

Young readers will love this lyrical, rhyming text as they watch the industrious citizens of Itching Down knead, bake, and slather the biggest wasp trap there ever was!

Caldecott Winner

Officer Buckle knows more about safety than anyone in the town of Napville.

Whenever he tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens – until the day the Napville Police Department buys a police dog named Gloria, who has her own way of demonstrating safety tips, creating the ultimate team.

This hilarious retelling of the classic Russian tale about a farmer whose turnip is impossible to pull from the ground uses simple vocabulary, making it easy for kids of all ages to understand!

In a stunning picture book, eight-year-old Matthew tells what happens when a devastating fire destroys the barn on his family's farm and all the Amish neighbors help to rebuild it in one day.

Once, lightships anchored on waters across America, on the oceans and in the Great Lakes, floating where lighthouses could not be built.

Smaller than most ships, but more steadfast, too, they held their spots, through calm and storm, to guide sailors toward safe waters. 

Fox wants the grapes, but they're too high for him to reach.

He's nothing if not crafty, and in this humorous new spin on the well-known fable, fox's scheme is taken to new heights.

The animals of Knotty Pine won't listen to the gnats' suggestion for keeping the hunters away, but learn to appreciate the tiny bugs when they're able to make the hunters "buzz off."

ALA Notable Book. Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book

Join a young boy as he watches the Empire State Building being constructed from scratch, then travels to the top to look down on all of New York City in 1931. 

Could a broken-down bus really bring a whole city neighborhood together? Could it all start with a small girl named Stella?

With a master’s eye for finding the magic in the mundane, Bob Graham creates an encouraging story about community — a whimsical tale about neighbors of all ages and stripes coming together, and about one little girl who comes into her own.

Caldecott Honor Recipient

Leo Lionni’s Caldecott Honor–winning story about a little mouse who gathers something unusual for the long winter is celebrating its fiftieth birthday!  

Winter is coming, and all the mice are gathering food except for Frederick.

But when the days grow short and the snow begins to fall, it’s Frederick’s stories that warm the hearts and spirits of his fellow field mice.

Winner of a 1967 Caldecott Honor, Frederick has been cherished by generations of readers.