Neal Porter Books/Holiday House | 978-0823457786 It’s a new year and I’ve been switching up my reading of picture books by revisiting chapter books I’ve loved and adding newer chapter books to my reading list. Recently, I discovered a charming new series by Kiah Thomas and K-Fai Steele about a LONE WOLF who lives by himself… Read more »
Candlewick Books | 978-1536205992 In AT THE POLES, the eighth in this poetry collection about animals in habitats and locations around the world, David Elliott and illustrator Ellen Rooney introduce young readers to fifteen creatures living in some of the coldest parts of our northern and southern poles. The collection opens with the Antarctic’s emperor… Read more »
Chronicle Books | 978-1797214580 I had been anticipating the publication of WHEN YOU FIND THE RIGHT ROCK and finally had the great pleasure of reading it a few weeks ago while attending NCTE/Boston. What a beauty! I have loved author Mary Lyn Ray’s books for years and adored Felicita Sala‘s work (even before I had the… Read more »
Holiday House | 978-0823453580 If you haven’t already read ZOONI TALES, let me introduce you to the second book, Zooni Tales: A Friend till the End, a delightful early reader graphic novel by Vikram Madan. Full of vim and vigor, Zooni is the adorable lead in this collection. In three full-length stories and two… Read more »
Neal Porter Books | 978-0823456420 This week, I’m enjoying THE TABLE by Winsome Bingham and Wiley Blevins. It’s a story of all that matters most – family and community, the people we gather together with, and the table (literal and figurative) around and upon which we create and build our lives. “Dawn sneaks through the curtains,… Read more »
Neal Porter Books | 978- 0823456666 In Belle’s class one day, the teacher announces that the kids will be drawing an owl. A round head and oval body; talon feet and a small hooked beak; folded wing and two big eyes.” Every child’s owl turns out slightly differently, but the owl that Belle draws has… Read more »
Abrams Books for Young Readers | 978-1419767210 “At Ameena’s school, it was always a play-by-herself day. It had been so ever since she arrived a few months ago. Kids had looked her up and down like she was something strange.” Feeling out of place is an experience many of us have known at one time or another…. Read more »
