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I’m not sure I can tell you how much I LOVE Backpack Explorer: On the Nature Trail: What Will You Find? but I’m going to try… This book was a surprise gift from Mom. At the start of the pandemic I was a lot like the main character of a
A little girl helps a monster sort out its feelings in The Color Monster, a pop-up book of feelings, by Anna Llenas. I LOVE this book! I read it over and over and over. It’s in one of the many book bins by my bed and I keep coming back
Boy meets a robot named Bot and they quickly become best buddies in BOY + BOT, written by Ame Dyckman and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. They run and play and walk on logs until Bot accidentally gets switched off. Boy thinks Bot is sick and tries many ways to make
In Sun and Moon Have a Tea Party, written by Yumi Heo, and illustrated by Naoko Stoop, Sun and Moon get into an argument about what happens when it’s their turn to be awake. One evening, as they’re sipping tea and eating cookies, Moon says moms and dads put kids
Everyone is in the classroom practicing songs and making goodies for their trip to say thank you to community helpers. The Gingerbread Man has made a special gift too but when he goes to deliver it, slush and snow get in the way. In The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas,
Oh, Cat… he’s at it again. In Here Comes Santa Cat, author Deborah Underwood and illustrator, Claudia Rueda, bring back Cat in all of his naughty splendor. I’m a big Cat fan! This book came out after Here Comes Easter Cat where Cat took on a bunny. And now, that
A little mouse plucks a flower from a wall and a brick comes loose — opening a glimpse on the beauty that lies on the other side. He decides to take down the wall brick by brick. Along the way other animals help him, making the wall come down faster.
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard about the The Snowy Day book by Ezra Jack Keats. It’s such a simple, beautiful, book. It’s also the New York Public Library’s most circulated book in its 125 year history. Earlier this year I got a new library card just so I could have
Borrowing the rhyme from the famed 19th century poem, “Twas The Night Before Christmas,” author, A.H. Edelman and illustrator Serge Gall, bring to life Santa in a Snow Globe, complete with “stand here” icons, showing children visiting Santa where to safely stand to wait their turns. The book begins: ”Twas