In What Are You Doing, Benny? author Cary Fagan and artist Kady MacDonald Denton join together to tell the story of two brothers, their power dynamics, why NO is a limiting word, and why YES is such a better word to use instead.
Categories: 2019, Canada, Picture Books about Behavior, Picture Books about Siblings • Tags: Canada, Picture Book, Picture Books, Recommended Picture Books, siblings
[Reviewed from Copy Courtesy of Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers] Harriet Gets Carried Away is a wonderful and adventurous story about Harriet and her amazing imagination — or possibly about Harriet and her real and incredible journey to Antarctica (it depends on what you think really happened). Either way, this story, with its enchanting illustrations, adorable characters, and fantastic blending of reality and fantasy, makes for a wonderful read with children. It playfully and effortlessly elicits amazing conversations […]
Categories: 2018, Diverse Picture Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Penguins • Tags: Book Review, Books, Children's Books, kidlit, Penguins, Picture Book, Picture Books, Recommended Picture Books
[Reviewed from Copy Courtesy of Tara Books.] Hic! is pure fun. It is a happy and sophisticatedly silly picture book that will give you a serious case of the giggles. Everything about this book – from its size and shape, to the beautiful and humorous artwork, to the topic, to the direct but playful writing, to acting out the hiccups – says to children that Hic! is just for them. We look on as a young girl tries, without success, to […]
Categories: Children's Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Children's Books, kidlit, Picture Book, Picture Books, Recommended Picture Books
[Reviewed from Copy Courtesy of Little, Brown Young Readers] No matter who you are, now is a fantastic and important time to read Chee-Kee: A Panda in Bearland. It is a wonderful, disarming, and charming book for everyone who has ever felt like they didn’t belong and an even better book for those who have never moved, never felt on the outside, and do not often (or ever) interact with those who have. Those who have felt or still feel […]
Categories: Children's Books, Diverse Picture Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Bears, Picture Books about Being Different, Picture Books about Belonging, Picture Books about Finding Friends, Picture books about Immigrating, Picture Books about Panda Bears, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Art, Bears, Chee-Kee: A Panda in Bearland, Children's literature, Immigration, Panda Bears, Picture Books, Picture Books about Immigration, Recommended Picture Books, Sujean Rim
[Reviewed from copy received courtesy of Simon & Schuster] For those of us who wish we could go to the ballet and see The Nutcracker every night, here is the book we’ve been waiting for. From celebrated and prolific illustrator, Valeria Docampo, comes a picture book of The Nutcracker that is based on the ballet that is based on the original story by E. T. A. Hoffman. (If you’re curious about the original story, you can read it online.) There appears […]
Categories: Ballet picture books, Children's Books, Christmas Picture Books, Fine Art Picture Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture books about Christmas, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Ballet, Ballet picture books, Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, George Balanchine, kidlit, Picture Book, Picture Books, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books, The New York City Ballet, The Nutcracker, Valeria Docampo
[Reviewed from copy received courtesy of Words in the Works] Max the Flying Sausage Dog is one of our absolute favorite book series. The subject, the humor, the prose, and illustrations are so perfectly and expertly done and so completely inline with our family’s sense of humor that we’re all enamored with books one, two, and now three. The hardest my eldest son has ever laughed was when we read the first book of Max the Flying Sausage Dog. He […]
Categories: Children's Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture books about Bullies, Picture Books about Dogs, Picture Books about Flying Dogs, Picture Books about Friendship, Picture Books about Overcoming Obstacles, Picture Books about Pets, Picture Books about Resolving Conflict, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Arthur Robins, Book Review, Bullies, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Dogs, Flying Dogs, Funny picture books, Humor, John O'Driscoll, kidlit, Max the Flying Sausage Dog, Nanobots, Picture Book, Picture Books, Picture books about Dogs, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books, Richard Kelley
[Reviewed from copy sent courtesy of Workman Publishing] Who Wins? 100 Historical Figures Go Head-to-Head and You Decide the Winner is possibly one of the funniest, actively engaging, passionately debatable, and entertainingly informative biographies you may ever read. We have been reading and playing Who Wins? since July and it is absolutely fantastic. Here’s how this book works. The book is spiral bound with three separate sections. On the left and right sections there are 50 different historical figures with a long list […]
Categories: Biography, Children's Books, Kidlit, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Clay Swartz, Hilarious Picture Books, Historical Figures, History, Humor, kidlit, Picture Book, Picture Books, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books, Tom Booth, Who Wins?
[Reviewed from copy received courtesy of Oxford University Press] The Mouse that Cancelled Christmas is a happy, hilarious, and light-hearted Christmas tale about Mouse, a self-designated safety inspector, who runs around the forest pointing out every potential hazard to his forest mates. He gets so worked up about every single possible danger that he becomes overwhelmed and decides that Christmas is just too dangerous and simply must be cancelled! Well, that is until he finds out that his friends have […]
Categories: Children's Books, Christmas Picture Books, Kidlit, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Behavior, Picture Books about Bravery, Picture Books about Friendship, Picture Books about Mice, Picture Books about Resolving Conflict, Picture Books about Rules, Picture Books about Worrying, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, kidlit, Madeleine Cook, Oxford University Press, Picture Book, Picture Books, Picture books about Christmas, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books, Samara Hardy, The Mouse that Cancelled Christmas
[Reviewed from copy received courtesy of That’s So Enterprises] Originally written in 1898 by Albert Bigelow Paine (before he became famous for being Mark Twain’s biographer) comes a sophisticated, picturesque, and boisterously merry (read: hilarious) Christmas story. Mr. Dog’s Christmas at the Hollow Tree Inn is a holiday treasure and a true delight — told in a rich, conversational tone with captivating illustrations, it effortlessly whisks its readers away to an enchanting world and a bygone era. Mr. Dog’s friends: ‘Coon, ‘Possum, […]
Categories: Children's Books, Christmas Picture Books, Kidlit, Magical Picture Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Dogs, Picture Books about Friendship, Picture Books with Great Characters, Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Adam McCauley, Albert Bigelow Paine, Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Picture Books, Christmas Picture Books, kidlit, Magical Picture Books, Mr. Dog's Christmas at the Hollow Tree Inn, Picture Book, Picture Books, Read Aloud, Recommended Books, Recommended Picture Books
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