Tag: Book Review

A Fantastic Spanish/English Bilingual Picture Book! Kena: The Good Hyena – Being the Best by Gabriela Arellano and Gustavo Mazali

August 9, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

Kena: The Good Hyena — Being the Best / Kena: La hiena buena — Ser el mejor is the first in a new series of bilingual picture books in Spanish and English that is gorgeously illustrated, wonderfully told, engaging, and adroitly teaches all its readers about grace, kindness, what matters, and what it really means to be the best. I am beyond impressed with this book and thrilled with how skillfully it meets an important need in Spanish/English bilingual books. My children […]

Categories: Bilingual Picture Books Spanish/English, Children's Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Behavior, Picture Books about Friendship, Picture Books about Manners, Picture Books about Resolving Conflict, Picture Books about Rules, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Gabriela Arellano, Gustavo Mazali, Highly Recommended Picture Books, Kena The Good Hyena, kidlit, Picture Book, Picture Books, Read Aloud, Recommended Picture Books

The Search for the Slimy Space Slugs! by Mike Lowery

July 20, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

“The book that you’re holding in your hands right this second is different from any other book you’ve ever held before.” –From The Search for the Slimy Space Slugs! It’s true. How many books have you read where a duck informs you that you’re a recruit for a top-secret recon mission in search of slimy space slugs? And you have to write in it in order to get through the book? See? It’s true. I’ve never held a book like […]

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Please Be Nice to Sharks by Matt Weiss with Photos by Matt Weiss & Daniel Botelho

July 19, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

When I was a child, sharks were bad, scary monsters that we should fear. We watched Jaws I, II, and III and, in general, it seemed that their deaths were not something for us to mourn. I’ve grown up and have learned that no, they’re not the scary monsters the movies (or well-meaning, but understandably overprotective parents) have portrayed them as. But it wasn’t until I sat down and read Please Be Nice to Sharks to my own children that I […]

Categories: Children's Books, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Sharks • Tags: Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Daniel Botelho, Highly Recommended Books, kidlit, Matt Weiss, Picture Book, Picture Books, Please Be Nice to Sharks, Read Aloud, Recommended Picture Books

Wake Up, Island by Mary Casanova and Woodcuts by Nick Wroblewski

June 30, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

Wake Up, Island, with its serene narrative and gorgeous woodcut illustrations, is stunning, playful, and a truly fulfilling read. Reading it to your children offers this invigorating and yet calming experience that inspires you to take a minute and feel grateful for the beauty of a new day. This picture book is a wonderful and soothing deep breath for every reader. Set in the North Woods of Minnesota, a gentle narrative speaks directly to you about how the day is beginning and gently […]

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Clap, Clap! by Madalena Matoso

June 8, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

Clap, Clap is the most fun I’ve ever had reading a counting picture book. It has brought reading to an entirely different level and the giggles and enthusiasm my boys have when we read it is so satisfying. Clap, Clap has everything you need to keep a little one engaged: there are bright, bold colors, happy faces, onomatopoetic jubilations, and then on top of that the reader actively gives the two-dimensional characters motion by opening and closing the book. In one […]

Categories: Children's Books, Counting Picture Books, Fine Art Picture Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Counting, Recommended Picture Books, Two year old loved • Tags: Beautiful Books, Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Clap Clap, Counting Picture Books, flying eye books, Highly Recommended Picture Books, kidlit, Madalena Matoso, Picture Books, Read Aloud, Recommended Books

Mr. Particular: The World’s Choosiest Champion! by Jason Kirschner

June 6, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

Mr. Particular: The World’s Choosiest Champion is a fabulously action-packed graphic-novel styled picture book with retro-esq illustrations. It is an entertaining and delightful plea for people everywhere to examine their particularities, keep what’s helpful and discard what isn’t. It has a great message of how we should balance improving ourselves with being true to ourselves. If you do, you might just find that your real super powers can shine through. Inside a delightful-yet-unassuming house resides the greatest hero of our […]

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Whose Story Is This, Anyway? by Mike Flaherty and Illustrated by Oriol Vidal

June 3, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

Whose Story Is This, Anyway? is a humorous jab at self-importance while tactfully suggesting that paying attention to those around us might be more of a win for everyone. A young boy has a wonderful story to tell us. We’re going to love it — because it is all about him. He’s just starting to tell us about his cat, Emperor Falafel, when a pirate has the NERVE to interrupt him and then go on to accuse our protagonist of […]

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Hudson in Provence by Jackie Clark Mancuso

June 3, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

Hudson in Provence is a beautiful and fun picture book told in a series of bucolic gouache paintings of a most endearing little dog’s visit to Provence. Each painting is striking, charming, and utterly absorbing. Hudson (a most endearing little dog) and his maman are heading on a vacation to Provence! How exciting! They even get to take the super fast TGV train! They stay in a gorgeous old stone house in the middle of a vineyard. More than anything, Hudson […]

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The Little Boy Who Lost His Name by David Cadji-Newby and Pedro Serapicos

May 20, 2016 by The Picture Book Review

What happens when a BBC comedy writer (and novelist!) and an immensely creative and talented illustrator (and lots of friends) get together to revolutionize the personalized picture book genre? You get to have a fantastic time reading a sublimely illustrated wild adventure starring your child. (It really is amazing — even the copyright infringement warning is magical.) You can read the rest of my review, or just go to https://www.lostmy.name/en-US/books/lostmyname to see the book online for yourself. You get to input the gender, race, and […]

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