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Katie Cunningham, March 14, 2022 | Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
A luminous companion to The Day You Begin, Woodson and López’s latest picturebook collaboration will remind children that they have the courage and capacity to “fly” past their most difficult times.
Mary Ann Cappiello, March 1, 2022 | Announcements, Fictionalized Biography, Nonfiction
Nelson’s fictionalized verse provides insight and access to the extraordinary life of an incredible artist and teacher, and offers readers of all ages with an example of artistry, agency, perseverance, and self-determination.
Grace Enriquez, February 22, 2022 | Awards, Book Reviews, Fiction, Fiction Chapter Books, Novels
Donna Barba Higuera’s Newbery Award and Pura Belpré Award winning novel nimbly mixes Spanish and English and draws from various storytelling genres to do what speculative fiction does best - imagine the latent possibilities in a given society, challenge readers to contemplate the promises and risks, and invite us to form new understandings about the world we live in now.
Katie Cunningham, January 18, 2022 | Book Reviews, Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
After over a decade, the much-awaited sequel to the Caldecott-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee has arrived–and at just the right time. The return of fastidious zookeeper Amos and the beloved animals he cares for feels like coming home to an old friend.
Mary Ann Cappiello, January 11, 2022 | Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Traditional Literature
This hopeful story of language, leadership, and love has so much to offer readers as an independent read, a whole class read aloud, or a book club exploration. Our weary, virus-laden world needs the goodness and joy this book conjures. “What does, then, change the world?....Love, and also stories” (p. 247).
Grace Enriquez, January 3, 2022 | Book Reviews, Poetry, Poetry Picture Books
As we start a new year together, facing challenges that have carried over from last, Change Sings provides a source of optimism and beauty that we can share with students not just across multiple content areas, but across our world and for years to come.
Erika Thulin Dawes, December 14, 2021 | Book Reviews, Picture Books, Poetry, Poetry Picture Books
What is peace? The answer to this question is both individual and collective, and both simple and complex. In their inviting new picture book poem, Baptiste and Miranda Paul explore the concept of peace, moving readers from concrete to abstract. The rhyming text and warmly whimsical illustrations invite readers young and old to consider the roles they can play in creating peace and the benefits that all can enjoy.
Denise Davila, November 29, 2021 | Announcements, Book Reviews, Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
Dad BakesWritten and Illustrated by Katie YamasakiPublished by Norton Young Readers, October 2021ISBN-13: 978-1324015413Grades PreK and Up Dad Bakes is for “[a]ll of the families impacted by incarceration who I’ve painted with through the years” writes muralist and book creator Katie Yamasaki. Illustrated in bright, saturated colors, this tender story begins with four muralistic […]
Mary Ann Cappiello, November 15, 2021 | Book Reviews, Fiction, Fiction Picture Books
Rare is the book that has the potential to prompt so much thinking in so few pages for such a wide audience. Originally published in Sweden in 2020, Johanna Schaible’s Once Upon a Time There Was and Will Be So Much More is a picture book for humans of all ages, from young children with an emerging concept of time to adults pondering their own life experiences in the past, present, and future.
Grace Enriquez, November 8, 2021 | Book Reviews, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
Speaking not just to the creative spirit, but also the heart and soul within all of us, How to Make a Bird is a manual for infusing that part of us that makes something truly spectacular.
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