Who is Ernie Barnes? Some people might know him from the football field and some might know him from the art galleries. I know him from Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace (and illustrated by Bryan Collier). Barnes was a young boy growing up in North Carolina. Shy, not good with words and a love of art set him apart at an early age. However, he was unable to partake in the […]
Rot, the Cutest in the World??
When you are a mutant potato that knows he is perfect the way his is, what do you do? Enter a The Cutest in the World Contest! However, Rot soon realizes not everyone thinks he is so cute. What is a poor mutant potato to do? Ben Clanton tells you in Rot, the Cutest in the World! Clanton’s signature style is all over the place. Each page has his less than traditional look and feel. His words are sassy, funny and serious all […]
I told you once, I told you twice, all seasons of the year are nice for eating chicken soup with rice!
Maurice Sendak is perhaps most famous for Where the Wild Things Are but he wrote many other books as well. Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months is a book from my childhood. I don’t have any specific memories of it being read to me but I remember it being about while growing up. When my first daughter was born my Mom passed our tiny, battered, dog chewed copy on to me. As soon as I opened the cover, the sing song nature of the book and […]
A Small Blue Whale finds a Friend or two or three….
A Small Blue Whale has one of those covers that makes you say, “Well this looks interesting. Let’s read it.” However, while this is a delightfully nice book nothing “grabbed” me about the text. The illustrations, though, are fun and attractive. They have great color and a tone to them that is pleasant to the eye. These illustrations are realistically abstract. There is no question to what the animal is, but it is far from what the animal should look like. The story is […]
In which a favorite from my childhood stands up to an adult re-read.
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do on a summer day was to go with my mom to the New England Mobile Book Fair. The Book Fair was an amazing, enormous wholesaler Book warehouse in my town (Newton, MA), where you could look up books in an enormous database (or when I was really young, a HUGE book) that told you who the publisher was. The warehouse was set up by publisher, and all of the books cost less than […]
How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read?
The dinosaurs of yore are back again with Jane Yolen’s and Mark Teague’s newest collaboration. How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? is much of what we have seen before, but this time about reading. Therefore, if you child likes the others, you will like this too! We will jump and roar and soar and soak and throw and chew and even read books with our dinosaur friends. We will learn the proper and improper ways to handle […]
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