While this book is not in a novel format, there are books in the Big Nate series. These comics in Big Nate: What’s a Noogie Between Friends by Lincoln Peirce were in newspapers from mid-October 2012 to mid-April 2013. The comics are about an over confident middle-schooler who does not always understand why the world does not go as planned. A number of modern images are shown (a single dad, multi-cultural students) there are the themes that are timeless: girl troubles, best friends and school. […]
Not your parent’s sheep meets wolf story
Baabwaa and Wooliam: A Tale of Literacy, Dental Hygiene, and Friendship written by David Elliott and illustrated by Melissa Sweet is not your parent’s sheep meets wolf story. Baabwaa loves to knit (a very practical hobby for a sheep) and Wooliam is a sheep who likes to read (which is not very common in the sheep world). They are content to do this day in and day out. Until one day they decide they need to go on an adventure. They go out, turn left […]
Vacation Time
One of my jobs at the bookstore is to help with our Book of the Month Club. I get to read, I mean wrap the books. Okay, yes, I read them, too, especially when it is a picture book. And the other day I found Goldfish on Vacation by Sally Lloyd-Jones. This yellow covered book illustrated by Leo Espinosa had me thinking, “Ho-hum another fish gets to take a walk around the block with its human friends.” Um…. nope. Not exactly…. While the three fish […]
A Sweet Pea & Friends book
A Farm for Maisie is the third title in the Sweet Pea & Friends series. These books by John and Jennifer Churchman tell the story of their farm and the animals that live there. Each story is told from the viewpoint of the animals. Their humanistic thoughts, feelings and fears come together within the text and photographs. The first, Sweet Pea & Friends is The Sheepover. It was a big hit at my bookstore. The customers like the sweet, fanciful story of animals and what […]
Just Breathe
I am always a little skeptical of these kinds of books. Mostly because they can get “preachy” and “have an agenda” to them. And, unfortunately My Magic Breath: Finding Clam Through Mindful Breathing does hit on a few of my “sore spots” (such as: instead of saying, “Did you have a sad moment?” they say, “You probably had a sad moment.” Which reinforces something is “wrong with me” if I did not because an “authority figure” is telling me I should have had a “sad” […]
Seek and you shall find!
Britta Teckentrup has her fourth seek-and-find book with Where’s the Baby? Of course, the first thing I thought of was Sid the Sloth from the first Ice Age movie playing “Where’s the Baby” (peek-a-boo) with the human child. And, this book is not too far off from that idea. You have clues in the text to where the baby is hiding on the opposite page. You then look to find the baby alligator, the baby chick, the baby giraffe and the baby frog among other […]
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