Book Reviews
Animal SnApp, developer Nosy Crow's latest series of preschooler apps, kicks off with Animal SnApp: Farm (October 2012) illustrated by Axel Scheffler.Six alliteratively named barnyard denizens are introduced in a puzzle which asks users to swipe their screen and align the animals' top and bottom halves. Correctly matching the pieces...
We have a patron who is looking for a bookshe read as a child. She can’t rememberthe title. All she knows is,there were lots of strange characterswho were large. They were shaped like flowers or clouds.They had mouths like apple sections, they smiled a lotand wore feathers, which implied something;...
The McElderry Book
of Mother Goose: Revered and Rare Rhymescompiled by Petra Mathers;
illus. by the compilerPrimary, Intermediate McElderry 96 pp.8/12 978-0-689-85605-1 $21.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-5314-2 $12.99Not since Leonard Marcus’s Mother Goose’s Little Misfortunes (rev. 11/90) has there been such a delightfully idiosyncratic selection. Drawn mostly from the canonical Opies (see...
Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dressesby Ron Koertge; illus. by Andrea DezsöHigh School Candlewick 88 pp.7/12 978-0-7636-4406-2 $19.99A much-honored poet and novelist retells, in free verse and from various points of view, twenty-three familiar tales (mostly Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault). With a contemporary sensibility and voice, Koertge pitches directly...
In the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, Jennifer Brabander asks The President's Stuck in the Bathtub author Susan Katz about writing presidential poetry. Read the full review of The President's Stuck in the Bathtub here.Jennifer Brabander: Which president was the hardest to write a poem about?Susan Katz:...
The President’s Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems about the Presidentsby Susan Katz; illus. by Robert NeubeckerPrimary, Intermediate Clarion 64 pp.2/12 978-0-547-18221-6 $17.99In forty-three poems, Katz gives each of our U.S. presidents their due. She concentrates on little-known facts (William McKinley taught his parrot “Yankee Doodle”) but often slips...
In honor of National Poetry Month and Poem in Your Pocket Day, we've put together a booklist of verse narratives across audience age and genre. Want a historical fiction verse novel or a picture book in poems? Look no further. These books were all published in the last few years...
The books recommended below were published within the last several years. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion. PICTURE BOOKSSuggested grade level for all entries: K-3The Great Migration: Journey to the North written by Eloise Greenfield; illus. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (HarperCollins/Amistad)Poignant poems (accompanied by collage...
A Field Sing-A-Long (Dowa-ya) is a collection of short free-verse poems translated by William I. Elliott and Nishihara Katsumasa from Naoko Kudō's Japanese originals.Naoko's poems are set in a natural community called “Field Village." Various creatures or elements of the habitat—personified with human names such as "Yoshio Rivercrab" and "Futago...
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