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Not-so Happily Ever After? The Princess Protection Program is here for you
The Princess Protection Program, by Alex London, (Feb. 2024, Greenwillow Books), $18.99, ISBN: 9780063303874 Ages 8-12 Did you ever think about whether or not Sleeping Beauty really wanted to be kissed by some guy she never knew after being asleep for 100 years? Or if The Little Mermaid would have made a different choice if she’d know she was going to turn into foam at the end of her story?…
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Happy World Storytelling Day! The Storyteller, by Lindsay Bonilla & Noar Lee Naggan
It’s World Storytelling Day! Time to bring people (and animals!) together and weave a world of stories. Let’s start with Lindsay Bonilla and Noar Lee Naggan’s beautiful fable, The Storyteller. The Storyteller, by Lindsay Bonilla/Illustrated by Noar Lee Naggan, (March 2024, Nancy Paulsen Books), $18.99, ISBN: 9780593109588 Ages 4-7 Griffin’s grandmother is The Storyteller: she spins incredible…
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roesolo · 9 days
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Continental Drifter seeks belonging
Continental Drifter, by Kathy MacLeod, (Apr. 2024, First Second), $14.99, ISBN: 9781250813749 Ages 8-12 Eleven-year-old Kathy lives in Bangkok with her Thai mother, American father, and her sister. The family doesn’t seem to interact much, so Kathy’s looking forward to the family trip to her father’s family in Maine: – with a summer camp trip-within-a-trip included! Feeling like she doesn’t quite…
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roesolo · 16 days
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There's No Such Thing as Vegetables? Fantastic, can't wait to tell my kids!
There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables, by Kyle Lukoff/Illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi, (Feb. 2024, Henry Holt & Company), $18.99, ISBN: 9781250867841 Ages 4-8 Chester is a kid who just wants to get some vegetables from the community garden so his mom can make him a salad. He gets schooled by the garden’s inhabitants on the many groups that fall under the “vegetable umbrella”. Broccoli? That’s a…
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roesolo · 16 days
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Taxi, Go is a rhyming run through town
Taxi, Go!, by Patricia Toht/Illustrated by Maria Karipidou, (Feb. 2024, Candlewick Press), $17.99, ISBN: 9781536231533 Ages 2-5 An adorable, big-eyed taxi has a busy day ahead in this sweet rhyming story. Waking up and driving to the heart of town, Taxi picks up fares and drops them off at all sorts of places, from a business meetings to shops to concerts. The last fare of the day is a family…
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roesolo · 17 days
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Speck: an epic journey
Speck: An Itty-Bitty Epic, by Margaux Meganck, (March 2024, Knopf), $19.99, ISBN: 9780593301975 Ages 3-6 Go on an epic journey with a tiny speck in this gorgeously illustrated story. A little speck is born in a tide pool and is swept along “past creatures to cling to rocks, / past flickering fins and flashing scales”; separated from their group, each speck is searching for something. Some drift…
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roesolo · 18 days
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I Try encourages resilience
I Try: Resilience for Little Ones, by Susie Brooks/Illustrated by Cally Johnson-Isaacs, (Dec. 2023, Kane Miller), $13.99, ISBN: 9781684645688 Ages 3-6 Kids show that humans can learn a lot about resilience from the animal kingdom in this sweet story about resilience. An inclusive and diverse group of children work together to try new things, as animals act as teachers: beavers show a group of…
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roesolo · 18 days
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A fairy tale retelling and a neurodivergent main character who saves the day
Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf, by Craig Barr-Green/Illustrated by Francis Martin, (March 2024, Kane Miller), $17.99, ISBN: 9781684647866 Ages 4-7 Gina Kaminski is an autistic young girl who uses emojis to let readers know how she is feeling. She’s not having a great day at school because it’s hot, smelly, and loud, so she heads to the reading room with Anya, a woman who appears to be a…
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roesolo · 19 days
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What's faster than a cheetah? Well...
There’s Nothing Faster than a Cheetah, by Tom Nicoll/Illustrated by Ross Collins, (Dec. 2023, Kane Miller), $15.99, ISBN: 9781684647958 Ages 4-7 This uproarious race tale tips its hat to Aesop’s classic fable, The Hare and the Tortoise, while putting a new spin on the hilarity. A cheetah and a snail are set to race, and the narrator tells readers not to have high expectations: “…there’s NOTHING…
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Guess Who and What's on the Menu? Animal non-fiction for kids!
Eye Guess: A Forest Animal Guessing Game, by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, (Jan 2024, Charlesbridge), $8.99, ISBN: 9781623544478 Ages Infant-3 Play a game of Guess Who? with littles with this illustrated board book that offers clues and extreme close-ups. Spreads alternate question and answer, with close-up illustrations and a brief clue and a full spread of the animal in its environment… and a sneak…
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Catch The Jump in paperback!
The Jump, by Brittney Morris, (March 2023, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), $19.99, ISBN: 9781665903981 Ages 12+ Brittney Morris wrote Slay, one of my favorite books of 2019. I haven’t read The Cost of Knowing (2022), but I just had a chance to sit down with The Jump, which came out last year, but will be coming out in paperback in about a week and a half. I am so glad I did. Morris can…
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Essential reading: Dear Muslim Child
Dear Muslim Child, by Rahma Rodaah/Illustrated by Aya Ghanameh, (Feb. 2024, Balzer + Bray), $19.99, ISBN: 9780063091993 Ages 4-8 Rodaah, the author of Dear Black Child (2022), creates a lyrical ode to inspire Muslim children everywhere. Rodaah reveals the miracle of their birth “Before Allah spoke the universe into existence, He wrote and nestled your name between ours” and shares the beauty of…
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STEM Books to Explore
I’m back with some new books to explore fun STEM concepts. I really miss having a Discovery Club at my library… maybe I’ll use these as a way to gauge some interest again. Tree Spirits (2nd Ed., Revised), by Louise Wannier/Illustrated by April Tatiana Jackson, (Sept. 2023, True Roses Books), $24.95, ISBN: 9780990997658 Ages 3-8 This book was published in September of last year, but I’ve just seen…
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roesolo · 2 months
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Funky Flamingos? But of course!
Flamingos are Pretty Funky: A (Not So) Serious Guide, by Abi Cushman, (June 2024, Greenwillow Books), $19.99, ISBN: 9780063234444 Ages 4-8 Abi Cushman has a companion book to Wombats are Pretty Weird (2023), and it’s all about flamingos. Friendly Joey the Snake is back as our guide through the world of flamingos, with more amusing commentary (we find out who he was named for this time). Cushman…
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Jackie and the Books She Loved - a different look at Jackie after JFK
Jackie and the Books She Loved, by Ronni Diamondstein/Illustrated by Bats Langley , (Nov. 2023, Sky Pony), $19.99, ISBN: 9781510776425 Ages 4-8 While most remember Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as President John F. Kennedy’s wife and JFK Jr.’s mother, she had a storied career in publishing. Diamondstein and Langley bring that Jackie to younger readers, beginning with her book-loving…
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MCBD24 continues: What the Bread Says
What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan, by Vanessa Garcia/Illustrated by Tim Palin, (Oct. 2022, Cardinal Rule Press), $17.95, ISBN: 9781735345185 Ages 5-7 Every Saturday, Vanessa’s mom heads to yoga after dropping Vanessa off at her grandfather’s. The two “meditate another way”: they bake all sorts of breads together, and Papan – a combination of “papa” and “pan”, the Spanish…
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It's Multicultural Children's Book Day! Celebrate with Chocolate Milk, Por Favor!
Happy Multicultural Children’s Book Day! I love being part of this initiative and bringing you books from different cultures and cultural points of view. This year, I’ve got two great ones, starting with this book on empathy and kindness. Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy, Maria Dismondy/Illustrated by Donna Farrell, (Sept. 2020, Cardinal Rule Press), $15.95, ISBN:…
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