Category Archives: Picture Books

The Longest Night: A Passover Story

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Laurel Snyder, Catia Chien (illustrator) Schwartz & Wade, $17.99, 40 pages Ima is a young Jewish girl, living in the Pharoah’s Egypt long ago. Her family and all the other Jewish families live in slavery. Ima, though a little girl, has …

Pug and Doug

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Steve Breen Dial BFYR, $16.99, 32 pages Pug and Doug are best friends. Though the neighbors have a lot in common—they love to watch birds and dance the polka—the two friends are very different. While Doug is artistic and imaginative, Pug …

Cheer Up, Mouse!

March 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Jed Henry Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, $12.99, 32 pages A mopey little mouse is surrounded by a bouncy bevvy of beasts, all eager to cheer Mouse up. Using informal slang expressions as a tropological device, the dual-meaning of the tongue-in-cheek …

I Haiku You

March 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Betsy Snyder Random House Children’s, $9.99, 32 pages There are few books that will absolutely delight every reader – no matter how young or how old – no matter if male or female – no matter whether one loves poetry or …

Peace

March 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Wendy Anderson Halperin Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 40 pages Many people around the world and through time have had ideas about how peace might be achieved. Some were incredibly famous people, some were powerful, some were ordinary, some were …

Pigs in Pajamas

March 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Maggie Smith Knopf BYR, $15.99, 32 pages Penelope Pig is planning a party – a party of plentiful proportions. She has put pen to paper to pull pigs from the town with perfect party invitations. Pigs from all around the hamlet …

Building Our House

February 28, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Jonathan Bean Farrar, Straus and Giroux BFYR, $17.99, 48 pages If you are moving into a new home or if your child is interested in how a house is built, Jonathan Bean has written a charming and interesting book …

Christmas at the Toy Museum

February 28, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By David Lucas Candlewick, $15.99, 32 pages This is a children’s book about twenty-two classic stuffed toys that live in a Toy Museum. On Christmas Eve, the toys all rush to gather under the Museum’s grand Christmas tree. Once there, …

Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money

February 28, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Emily Jenkins, G. Brian Karas (illustrator) Schwartz & Wade, $16.99, 40 pages It’s wintertime, but Pauline and her little brother, John-John, decide to have a lemonade stand. Their parents list all the reasons why the idea will never work—no …

Too Noisy!

February 28, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Malachy Doyle,  Ed Vere (illustrator) Candlewick, $15.99, 32 pages Sam is the quiet one. His family, the Bungles, is pretty noisy. No. Make that very, very noisy. When you hear trills and tinkles, you find Mama Bungle. Papa Bungle …

Olivia and the Fairy Princesses

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Ian Falconer Atheneum, $17.99, 40 pages Poor Olivia is sad. She realizes that if everyone dresses like a princess and dances like a princess and wears pink like a princess and has sparkly tiaras like a princess then maybe there is …

Find a Cow Now!

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Susan Stevens Crummel, Janet Stevens Holiday House, $11.78, 32 pages Dog is tired of napping. He needs to move and chase – and he does! Tackling rugs, chairs, and chasing his own tail, he makes so much noise the parakeet sternly …

Cold Snap

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Eileen Spinelli, Marjorie Priceman (illustrator) Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 40 pages It is a cold, cold day in the town of Toby Mills. It is so cold that the statue of the town’s founder, General Toby, has an icicle …

Zephyr Takes Flight

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Steve Light Candlewick, $16.99, 40 pages Zephyr loves airplanes. She loves to look at them, play with them, fly them, and even do triple loop-de-loop spectaculars with them. Unfortunately, sometimes when she does the triple loop-de-loop spectacular, not everything goes exactly …

Bedtime Is Canceled

November 29, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Picture Books
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By Cece Meng, Aurelie Neyret (illustrator) Clarion Books, $16.99, 32 pages Maggie has a great idea. She gets her brother to write a note that says, “Bedtime is cancelled” and gives it to their parents. They don’t believe it. Maggie puts it …