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Life After Whale
I should have been prepared for the emotional sequence of images on the sixth double-page spread of Life After Whale. It’s not a secret. The title reveals the plot: Life After Whale. But I wasn’t prepared. I let Chin’s immersive cover, front matter, and opening scenes — a sequence of...
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Review of Cake for Everyone
Cake for Everyone by Thé Tjong-Khing; illus. by the authorPrimary Gecko 32 pp.8/24 9781776575930 $18.99An entourage of well-dressed animals sets out for a festive picnic in this wordless Dutch import. Just as they begin cake-baking and merry-making, an eagle swoops down (on the title page) and snags their picnic blanket...
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Review of Pigs Dig a Road
Pigs Dig a Road by Carrie Finison; illus. by Brian BiggsPreschool, Primary Putnam 48 pp.9/24 9781984816542 $19.99e-book ed. 9781984816559 $10.99Hardhat-wearing pigs hurriedly build a road to reach the county fair. While Rosie stays up all night and “plans,” “outlines,” and “calculates,” her peers—Curly, Pinky, and Stinky—sleep. At work, the pigs...
Jump for Joy
Full disclosure: I am a dog person. My daughter, also a dog person, and a pediatrician, reports that the service dogs who visit her hospital are often the only remedy for her sick patients. I believe in dog joy. But the medal-worthiness of Jump for Joy, illustrated by Hadley Hooper...
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Review of Zebra’s Great Escape
Zebra’s Great Escape by Katherine Rundell; illus. by Sara OgilviePrimary, Intermediate Simon 64 pp.8/24 9781481491631 $19.99e-book ed. 9781481491648 $10.99Originally published in Great Britain, this book evades easy classification. Ogilvie’s lively, vibrantly colored art—with dramatic page-turns and a mix of immersive full-bleed illustrations, spot art, and vignettes—caters to a picture-book audience....
Review of The Pelican Can!
The Pelican Can! by Toni Yuly; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp.5/24 9780316497817 $18.99Yuly’s well-designed picture book presents a series of playful rhyming questions (“Who can soar down close to the shore?” “Who can fly up high in the sky?”) followed by the refrain, “The pelican can!...
Review of On a Summer Night
On a Summer Night by Deborah Hopkinson; illus. by Kenard Pak Preschool Chronicle 56 pp. 5/24 9781797200132 $18.99 In this quiet cumulative story, everyone—and everything—wakens, one by one. Who has woken the girl, the cat, the dog, the rabbit, the tree, the air, and the cloud? The reader and protagonist...
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Review of The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever!
The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever! by Louise Fitzgerald; illus. by Kate HindleyPreschool Nosy Crow 32 pp.4/24 9798887770512 $17.99Hindley brings a Richard Scarry vibe to Fitzgerald’s zany bedtime frolic. From the start, the direct-address narrator breaks the book’s titular promise: the “quickest bedtime story EVER” is “only ten words. BUT before...
Review of Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA
Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA by Tanya Lee Stone; illus. by Gretchen Ellen Powers Primary, Intermediate Ottaviano/Little, Brown 40 pp. 2/24 9780316351249 $18.99 Stone’s dedication—“For anyone who did something awesome and didn’t feel the love”—sets the reparative tone for this...
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