Book Reviews
When I was invited to visit with the 2014 Sendak Fellows at Maurice's farm, I thought it would be, you know, a "farm," AKA a rurally situated but otherwise urbane getaway retreat. But it was an actual farming farm with rows of vegetables and corn and a tractor and silo...
Hermelin the Detective Mouseby Mini Grey; illus. by the authorPrimary Knopf 32 pp.8/14 978-0-385-75433-0 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-385-75434-7 $20.99e-book ed. 978-0-385-75435-4 $10.99A double-page spread shows us Offley Street, a panorama of seven row houses, each revealing, in glimpses through windows and open doors, small mysteries and nascent stories that figure throughout...
I Can Do It Myselfby Valorie Fisher;
photos by the authorPreschool, Primary Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp.7/14 978-0-449-81593-9 $17.99 gTiny poseable dolls help young children celebrate the many concepts they need to learn. Fisher (Everything I Need to Know Before I’m Five, rev. 7/11) includes the basics for preschoolers and...
Pom and Pimby Lena Landström; illus. by
Olof Landström; trans. from
the Swedish by Julia MarshallPreschool Gecko 32 pp.3/14 978-1-877579-66-0 $16.95Pom is a small child with sparse orange curls, clad in a long purple sweater; Pim is Pom’s inanimate sidekick of indeterminate species: a dirty pink, with two eyes and...
Roar roar ROAR! When it comes to destruction, dinosaurs win! Check out these two brand-new titles about dinosaurs on rampages:...
The Midnight Libraryby Kazuno Kohara; illus. by the authorPreschool Roaring Brook 32 pp.6/14 978-1-59643-985-6 $16.99Welcome to the Midnight Library, where a little-girl librarian and her three owl assistants provide a friendly spot for animals from “all over the town” to “find a perfect book.” Outside the windows, stars twinkle in...
Hi, Koo! A Year of Seasonsby Jon J Muth; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Scholastic 32 pp.3/14 978-0-545-16668-3 $17.99Twenty-six haiku are presented by young panda Koo, whom fans of Muth’s Zen Ties will recognize as the haiku-spouting nephew of Stillwater, the Zen Buddhist panda from Zen Shorts and Zen Ghosts....
Emily’s Blue Periodby Cathleen Daly; illus. by Lisa BrownPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 56 pp.6/14 978-1-59643-469-1 $17.99Young Emily is an artist — a fact thoroughly established, visually, from title page on. She draws and she paints; she pores over art books. In school, she is learning about Pablo Picasso, and his work...
It is important to expose children to a variety of genres of literature at young age and to do our best to explain the conventions of that genre in developmentally appropriate ways. One of the genres of literature that might not get as much emphasis in standardized tests but is...
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