It’s easy to see why the Pig the Pug books are household classics in their native Australia.

It’s easy to see why the Pig the Pug books are household classics in their native Australia.
Bears and underwear are somewhat separate clichés in kidlit. But putting TWO awkward-looking bears in ONE supersized pair of tighty-whities on the book cover is so awesomely hilarious that it’s completely genius.
In Five Little Fiends, five creatures live in their own little statues on a faraway plain, but they would often come out to marvel at their beautiful surroundings.
The arrival of a new baby often heralds many changes in the household, and the impact is arguably the greatest on the newly promoted big sister/brother who has no choice but to adjust to these sudden and life-altering upheavals.
The simplest stories can be some of the hardest to get right — if it’s too straightforward, it becomes boring; if it’s saddled with unnecessary fluff, it becomes fussy and try-hard. Thus, Little Mouse and the Big Cupcake is a breath of fresh air. Not only is this charming book executed well — with a good story that is complemented with understated pencil illustrations that look as sweet as the giant cupcake on the cover — but it also has a nice, feel-good message about the perks of sharing.
Sidney and Stella are a pair of twins who do everything together except share, and one night, while fighting over a ball, they — gasp — accidentally break the moon into a million pieces. By working together, however, the twins eventually manage to put the (well, a) moon back into the sky (never mind that it now has a suspicious bite mark).
A Cat and a Dog is a very cute book about how the eponymous antagonistic pair living under the same roof eventually make peace with each other and learn to get along — kinda sounds like the relationship between siblings, doesn’t it?