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{book} a present nostalgia
Day Twenty-Five: Wait! Wait! By Hatsue Nakawaki Illustrated by Komako Sakai Translated by Yuki Kaneko Enchanted Lion Books 2013 Wait! Wait! is an ideal book for young children that gently follows...
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{book} mother’s
Day Twenty-Six: My Mother’s Sari By Sandhya Rao illustrated by Nina Sabnani NorthSouth 2006 Illustrated using mixed-media, My Mother’s Sari opens with the endpapers bearing instructions in how to don...
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{book} an antidote
Day Twenty-Seven: I’m Bored By Michael Ian Black Illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Simon & Schuster for Young Readers 2012 The potato was unexpected. I did not read the inside jacket copy. I...
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{book} card carrying
Day Twenty-Eight: The Midnight Library By Kazuno Kohara Roaring Book Press 2014 “Once there was a library that opened only at night.” The Midnight Library’s hours are dusk to dawn and its serves an...
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{book} a legacy, a man, a company of men, and Ntozake Shange
Day Twenty-Nine: Ellington Was Not a Street Written by Ntozake Shange Illustrated by Kadir Nelson Simon & Schuster for Young Readers [text: 1983] 2004 The narrative of Ellington Was Not a Street...
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{illustrator} yuyi morales
I occasionally share an illustrator who has caught my eye. See the above “picture book list” for other illustrators highlighted on this blog. For ’30 Days of Picture Books’,“Day Six” features three...
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{book} imagine Beekle
The Adventures of Beekle, The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat (Little, Brown & Co. 2014) On a magical island, a creature is born and left to imagine the friend made especially for them. Nameless,...
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{picture book} Hatke’s creatures
Julia’s House for Lost Creatures by Ben Hatke First Second 2014. When Julia’s house finds a new place to settle, she puts a sign out for lost creatures to combat her own sense of loneliness. But now a...
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{picture book} wonder-full
Just in time for a baby shower gift, one of my favorites (I have a print on my wall) came out with a new book: not that I wouldn’t have gifted the recently released board book version of Dream Animals...
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{picture book} Max the…adorably funny
Max the Brave by Ed Vere Puffin Books, 2014 (UK). Sourcebooks, 2015 (US) This is Max. Max the Brave, Max the Fearless, Max the Mouse-catcher…But, in order to be a Mouse-catcher, Max needs to know...
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