All About Nothing by Elizabeth Rusch; illus. by Elizabeth GossPreschool, Primary Charlesbridge 32 pp.4/23 9781623543525 $17.99e-book ed. 9781632893222 $9.99Rusch’s thought-provoking text begins: “Nothing is the space around and between everything.” The presence of nothing, cued by plain white areas in the cut-paper illustrations, appears first as physical space: the gap...
The Night Tent by Landis Blair; illus. by the authorPreschool Ferguson/Holiday 40 pp.4/23 9780823450985 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455164 $11.99Blair offers viewers a fantastical nighttime adventure. Because “Watson wasn’t sleepy,” he worries about what might be hiding under the bed or in his closet. Suddenly, a beam of light appears from beneath...
Like by Annie Barrows; illus. by Leo EspinosaPreschool, Primary Chronicle 40 pp.9/22 9781452163376 $17.99“You are you, and I am I. We are people…This makes us different from most of the things on Earth.” Head crowned with a mass of brown curly hair, this book’s narrator speaks directly to readers, guiding...
Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm by Laura Purdie Salas; illus. by Elly MacKayPreschool Bloomsbury 40 pp.3/23 9781547602254 18.99e-book ed. 9781547602261 $13.29“No wind, / No rain, / No stormy sky.” Three children kick a bright red ball across the sloping island landscape. As they search for their ball...
The Circles in the Sky by Karl James Mountford; illus. by the author Primary Candlewick Studio 40 pp. g 9/22 978-1-5362-2498-6 $18.99 After a day on the hunt, Fox hears the birds singing in a new and different way. Fox follows their “strange morning song” and finds...
The Dark Was Done by Lauren Stringer; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp. g 9/22 978-1-5344-6292-2 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-6293-9 $10.99 “Night lights, streetlights, flashlights, and table lamps” often shine against a childhood fear: the Dark. Here gently curved indigo outlines form the...
Where in the World Are You? by Marie G. Rohde ; illus. by the author Preschool What on Earth 48 pp. g9/22 978-1-913750-76-3 $17.99 Rohde constructs a vibrant exploration of place beginning with a simple question and answer: “Where is the cat? Under the wobbly table.”...
I Cannot Draw a Horse by Charise Mericle Harper; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Union Square Kids 48 pp. g9/22 978-1-4549-4594-9 $17.99 A gray shape—almost a half of an oval—sits alone on a sheet of what looks like graph paper. “This is my shape,” declares...
Bedtime for Bo by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold; illus. by Mari Kanstad Johnsen; trans. from Norwegian by Kari DicksonPreschool Enchanted Lion 72 pp. g8/22 978-1-59270-374-6 $19.95“Bedtime!” is a call that can elicit groans of dread from young children and caregivers alike. While Bo performs “tumblesaults on the sofa and sings as...