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{book} goldilocks and just one bear
DAY 24 Goldilocks and Just One Bear by Leigh Hodgkinson Nosy Crow, 2012 Alright, so I hadn’t intended another Goldilocks story but this one was staring out from the shelf at me. And I was curious about...
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{book} frankenstein takes the cake
DAY 25 Frankenstein Takes the Cake by Adam Rex Harcourt, 2008. I saw Adam Rex’s name, so…I had to show it to Natalya every three minutes (and that was me being restrained). Finally, N set the Isabel...
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{book} dillweed’s revenge
DAY 26 Dillweed’s Revenge: A Deadly Dose of Magic by Florence Parry Heide Illustrated by Carson Ellis Harcourt, 2010. I found this in the children’s picture book section at the Tattered Cover Book...
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{book} extra yarn
DAY 27 Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett. Illustrations by Jon Klassen. Balzer+Bray, 2012. ages 4-8. I’ve not heard a bad thing about this book and spying it on the shelf (face-out, front and center, on a...
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{book} look, a book
DAY 28 Look, a Book! by Libby Gleeson illustrated by Freya Blackwood Officina Libraria, published in Australia in 2011; US in 2012 Red is a favorite color and that it frames such an attractive...
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{book} kel gilligan’s daredevil stunt show
DAY 29 Kel Gilligan’s Daredevil Stunt Show by Michael Buckley Illustrated by Dan Santat Abrams Books, 2012. We have nearly all of The Sisters Grimm series (trade paper). Natalya owns all of the...
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{book} this is not my hat
DAY 30 This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen Candlewick Press, 2012. ages 3 & up I know I reviewed a Jon Klassen illustrated picture book, but I couldn’t resist this follow-up to I Want My Hat Back, a...
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{book} nora the mind reader
DAY 31 Nora the Mind Reader by Orit Gidal illustrated by Aya Gordon-Noy translated from Hebrew by Annette Appel Enchanted Lion Books, 2012 (orig. 2011) ages 4-8 The last is certainly not the least in...
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{challenge} – days of picture books
איה גורדון – Aya Gordon One of the blogs I follow, Shelf Elf, celebrated September with a picture book a day. She was inspired by Candlewick Press’ year-long celebration of the picture book and...
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{book} bff
Bink & Gollie: Best Friends Forever by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee Illust. by Tony Fucile Candlewick Press, 2013. I wrote this about the first book Bink & Gollie on Goodreads in 2010:...
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food pyramids
Day Twelve: Carnivores by Aaron Reynolds, Illus by Dan Santat Chronicle Books, 2013. Natalya had gotten to my stack of picture books from the Library first. So I ask her every day after: which picture...
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a mighty good picture book
Day 13: The Mighty Lalouche by Mathew Olshan and illus by Sophie Blackall Schwartz & Wade Books, 2013 “One hundred and a few-odd years ago, in Paris, France, there lived a humble postman named...
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a is for musk ox’s antics
Day 14: a is for musk ox by Erin Cabatingan, illus. by Matthew Myers a Neal Porter Book (Roaring Brook Press) 2012. Must every alphabet book begin with “a is for apple?” Probably not. But would you...
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beware: today is chu’s day
Day 15: Chu’s Day by Neil Gaiman, illus by Adam Rex Harper (HarperCollins), 2013. “When Chu sneezed, bad things happened.” This is the first line of the story, and I’m hooked. What sort of bad things...
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things I love about this picture book
Day Seventeen: All the Things I Love About You by LeUyen Pham Balzer + Bray, 2010. All the Things I Love About You reads like love letter from a mother to her young child, in which she tells him all...
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means of transport
Day Eighteen: Journey by Aaron Becker Candlewick Press, 2013. A lot of notice has been taken of this picture book, so naturally I was skeptical. I discovered that perhaps, this time, there is something...
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laszlo and the dark
Day Nineteen: The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illus by Jon Klassen Little, Brown & Co. 2013. When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.–Nietzsche “Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The...
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breaking bunny
Day Twenty: Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett w/ pictures by Matthew Myers Simon & Schuster, 2013 breaking bad bunny Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about Birthday Bunny on...
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a book on ballet
Day Twenty-One: Tallulah’s Tutu by Marilyn Singer, illus. by Alexandra Boiger. Clarion Books, 2011 Tallulah is convinced that she will be a great ballerina, all she needs is a tutu. Her mother thinks...
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meet ignacious
Day Twenty-Two: Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty, illus. by David Roberts Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007. “A hilarious, irreverent book introduces Iggy Peck, who has been building fabulous...
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