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“Two, four, six, eight, don’t assume your kids are straight!”
“Two, four, six, eight, don’t assume your kids are straight!”* Happy Pride Month! And thank you, SCOTUS, for ruling to protect LGBTQIA+ workers’ civil rights! It’s about time we had some good news. Though the pandemic has forced this year’s Pride recognitions to go virtual, it’s still important to continue...
Review of Mama Baby
Mama Baby by Chris Raschka; illus. by the author Preschool Candlewick 32 pp. g 3/20 978-0-7636-9060-1 $14.99 In this artfully composed picture book, Raschka gets to the emotional core of the relationship between a young child and a trusted adult. Mama, on the verso, looks adoringly at her child, a...
Teacher Appreciation 2020
This week marks Teacher Appreciation Week, with Tuesday, May 5, being National Teacher Day. Don't forget to #ThankaTeacher (probably virtually). And especially to those teachers (including teacher librarians!) who are also parents and trying, from home, to teach their own children and ours...there are no words. If it wasn’t obvious...
Happy Anniversary: It's Perfectly Normal
It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley, was published by Candlewick in 1994. It celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2019. Intended for readers ages ten and up, Harris and Emberley’s It’s Perfectly Normal was groundbreaking when it appeared on the scene...
Review of Ultrabot's First Playdate
Ultrabot’s First Playdate by Josh Schneider; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Clarion 32 pp. g 7/19 978-1-328-49013-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-06358-2 $12.99 At first glance, this doesn’t look like a what-to-expect-when-hosting-a-playdate story. The first-timer here is a massive red robot that “lived with its professor in a little top-secret...
Pocketful of memories
Yesterday, a friend posted a link to fabric artist Salley Mavor’s blog where Salley revisits a 2012 post on her process of creating the eye-popping three-dimensional cover art for The Horn Book Magazine’s January/February 2012 issue. Salley’s book Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes had won the 2011...
Review of What Kind of Car Does a T. Rex Drive?
What Kind of Car Does a T. Rex Drive? by Mark Lee; illus. by Brian Biggs Preschool, Primary Putnam 40 pp. g 5/19 978-1-5247-4123-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-4124-2 $10.99 Used-car salesman Uncle Otto, desperate to make a sale, vows to “sell a car to anyone — or anything — that...
Five questions for Kyle Lukoff
School librarian Kyle Lukoff's heartfelt picture book When Aidan Became a Brother (illustrated by Kaylani Juanita; Lee & Low, 4–7 years) begins, "When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl" — perfectly encapsulating the disconnect many very young transgender/gender-creative kids feel. As his family prepares to welcome a...
Review of When Aidan Became a Brother
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff; illus. by Kaylani Juanita Preschool, Primary Lee & Low 32 pp. g 5/19 978-1-62014-837-2 $18.95 This story about anticipating the arrival of a new baby is, at its heart, about the unconditional love all children deserve. The fact that big-brother-to-be Aidan is...