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Books for the Very Young, 2022 Edition
Yes, it's time once again to bring our readers' attention to books that rarely receive Caldecott recognition: books for the very youngest. There are exceptions, of course. Recent ones like 2020 honor book Bear Came Along, and classic ones like 2005 Caldecott winner Kitten's First Full Moon (for such young readers that there's now...
Review of A Seed Grows
A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g6/22 978-0-8234-4892-0 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5307-8 $11.99With her latest science-focused picture book, Portis (Hey, Water!, rev. 3/19) continues to introduce very young readers and listeners to the wonders of nature. Here she details the life cycle of...
A New Green Day
Before I had children, I had it all planned out. Thanks to my chosen occupation (children’s librarian), I already had a house filled with picture books of all kinds. I knew the literature. I knew which books would appeal to one age range or another. I was book-smart about children’s...
Review of A New Green Day
A New Green Day by Antoinette Portis; illus. by the author Preschool Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 4/20 978-0-8234-4488-5 $18.99 In this exuberant celebration of a summer day, readers engage with compelling page-turns to solve simple nature riddles. “Morning lays me on your pillow,” the book opens, “square and warm. Come out...
Hey, Water!
Forgive me, dear readers, but I’m sort of cheating. I’m writing about Antoinette Portis’s Hey, Water! here at Calling Caldecott when, earlier this year, I reviewed it for the Horn Book Magazine. I’m going to embrace this, though, by leaning into my review and reiterating here the many things I like...
CaldeGeisel 2018
We here at Calling Caldecott thought it would be fun to have a visit today from the three librarians who run the show over at Guessing Geisel, the blog that celebrates beginning readers and annually runs a mock vote for the Geisel Award (just as we will soon have a...
Now
Last year’s Wait by Antoinette Portis was a wonderfully simple but profound paean to children’s ability to observe and take notice while adults rush rush rush everywhere and miss everything, from tiny ladybugs to glorious rainbows. This year’s Now is not all that different: it focuses on a young girl living...
Review of Now
Nowby Antoinette Portis; illus. by the authorPreschool Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.7/17 978-1-62672-137-1 $17.99A natural follow-up to Portis’s Wait (rev. 7/15), about a woman in a rush and the child who reminds her to stop and smell the roses, Now is an affirmation of the present and its many wonders. It...
Antoinette Portis on The Red Hat
In our January/February 2016 issue, reviewer Sarah Ellis asked illustrator Antoinette Portis about that playful (pesky?) wind in The Red Hat. Read the full review of The Red Hat here.Sarah Ellis: The “bad guy” here is the wind, but in your swirly, spiral line the wind comes across as more...
Review of Wait
Waitby Antoinette Portis; illus. by the authorPreschool Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.7/15 978-1-59643-921-4 $16.99A harried mother rushes her toddler son through the busy city streets, and he resists, stalling to look at everything they encounter. This fundamental tension plays out in a series of spreads illustrating the same refrain....
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