Any book can be read at any time. But some books are particularly suited for a certain time of year. Here are my recommendations, both picturebooks (P) and novels (N), for January. For my selections I focused on the weather, on new beginnings and just books that felt like… well, January books:

• I Stood Upon A Mountain, Aileen Fisher (P)
  • • The Boy Who Walked Bacwards by Ben Sures (P)  (http://www.bensures.com/book-publication/)
• January’s Sparrow by Patricia Polacco (P)
• No Fixed Address by Nielsen, Susin (N)
• The Lost Words by Macfarlane, Robert (P)
• The Mitten by Jan Brett (P)
• One Year in Coal Harbor, Horvath, Polly (N)
• An Orange in January by Dianna Hutts Aston (P)
• Today Is the Day by Walters, Eric (P)
• If Kids Ruled the World by Bailey, Linda  (P)
• Something Else by Cave, Kathryn (P)
• Countdown by Mikaelson, Ben (N)
• Something From Nothing by Gilman, Phoebe (P)
• It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles by Prelutsky, Jack (poetry)
• Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails by Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk (P)
• Nightjohn by Paulsen, Gary (N)
• The Wednesday Surprise by Bunting, Eve (P)
• Sleepy Bears by Fox, Mem (P)
• Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt by Barbara Smucker (P)

Stay tuned for lists for each month as well as for global and nonfiction themes.