All the World, by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee I unabashedly love this book, with its subtly hopeful message, lyrical language, and beautiful pictures. It was a birthday gift to my younger daughter from one of her best friends at day care. I can’t remember exactly which birthday- either her 3rd or 4th- […]
Juneteenth for Mazie, by Floyd Cooper I am adding an extra post for this month, because my heart hurts, and in some small way writing this makes me feel better. It is going to be longer than most of my posts here, because what I want to say about this book needs some explanation. Like all […]
Kitchen God, by Lei Xiong, illustrated by Kim Xiong, translated by Clarissa Yu Shen This is a charming story about the kitchen god who watches over the household, told from the point of view of a child in the house. My older daughter got this book as a birthday present not long after she started […]
The Beasties, by Jenny Nimmo, illustrated by Gwen Millward This is such a lovely book, both in the stories and in the pictures. It is the story about a little girl who has moved into a new house and is having a hard time sleeping, until the Beasties who live under her bed teach her how […]
Corduroy, by Don Freeman Sometimes, you read a picture book that is considered a classic and think it is only held in such high regard because people are nostalgic for their own childhood. But sometimes, you can see why the book’s popularity persists. Corduroy is definitely an example of the latter case. The story of […]
The Bird Alphabet Book, by Jerry Pallotta, illustrated by Edgar Stewart My older daughter loved birds when she was a young toddler. “Bird” was one of her first words, although we could only understand it because she accompanied it with the sign. She loved to sit at the sliding glass door that looks out onto […]
Footsteps through the Fog, by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Gavin Bishop This delightful book is another one we received as a gift from New Zealand, but a quick search shows that it is available in the US, too. It is the story of five siblings who set out for a visit to a nearby beach. On […]
Zou and the Box of Kisses, by Michel Gay I’m posting a bonus book this month because the front page of the blog section is designed to have three entries, and it is bothering me that there are only two. Make of that what you will. But the bonus book is a great one! I […]