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Review of A Big Day for Bike
A Big Day for Bike by Emily Jenkins; illus. by G. Brian KarasPreschool, Primary Ottaviano/Little, Brown 32 pp.6/24 9780316340175 $18.99On her first day as a rental bicycle for Beep Beep Bicycles, Bike worries she might not be able to live up to riders’ expectations. An older, more seasoned bike advises,...
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Review of The Kitten Story: A Mostly True Tale
The Kitten Story: A Mostly True Tale by Emily Jenkins; illus. by Brittany CicchesePreschool, Primary Minerva/Astra 48 pp.10/23 9781662651151 $18.99e-book ed. 9781662651168 $11.99“There are four people in our family. Rosie, Tulip, Daddy and me. I am Mommy.” So begins this funny, heartwarming story of a feline-loving family in need of...
A Note from Me (Aug 20, 2021)
Dear friends: Happy Anniversary to me! Yes, Richard and I officially tied the knot* ten years ago today. And to continue in the same nuptial vein: congratulations to eternal friend of the Horn Book Katie Bircher, who got married** to her guy Wilber (who apparently has thus far successfully resisted...
Five questions for Emily Jenkins
On the hundredth day of school, members of Harry Bergen-Murphy’s first-grade class will celebrate the milestone by each bringing in one hundred of something. “But what?” he worriedly wonders. Emily Jenkins’s slice-of-life chapter book Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School (ages 4–7, Schwartz/Random; Educators’ Guide here), illustrated by...
Review of Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School
Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School by Emily Jenkins; illus. by Pete Oswald Primary Schwartz & Wade/Random 240 pp. g 6/21 978-0-525-64471-2 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-525-64472-9 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-64473-6 $10.99 Harry Bergen-Murphy is worried about a lot of things on the night before starting first grade —...
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour
Welcome to the first stop on the 2019 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour! Author Emily Jenkins and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky were kind enough to answer my questions about All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah (Schwartz & Wade/Random), this year’s Gold Medal winner in the Younger Readers category. All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah is...
The Writer’s Page: On Home, Empathy, and Voice
I write, much of the time, from the perspective of a person who is not quite sure where home is. I am interested in figuring out how to make one.Home is a deceptively simple word. When those of us who work with children say it, we often assume it has...
That New Animal | Class #2, 2016
Here's another picture book for our second class. There are lots of books out there that tackle an emotional issue in a heavy handed way. I'm not a fan of those books, but I love this one. What do you think? Does it accomplish its goal? Would it appeal to...
A Fine Dessert
Biscuits. Cobblers. Sweets. Dessert. Those are my favorite things to cook. When I saw that Sophie Blackall had illustrated a book about a dessert, I was on it.The book starts and ends with blackberries — literally. Blackall squished them into a paste and used it to paint the muted endpapers....
That New Animal | Class #2 2015
Here's another picture book for our second class. There are lots of books out there that tackle an emotional issue in a heavy handed way. I'm not a fan of those books, but I love this one. What do you think? Does it accomplish its goal? Would it appeal to...
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