Book Reviews
Everyone’s Awake by Colin Meloy; illus. by Shawn Harris Primary Chronicle 48 pp. 3/20 978-1-4521-7805-9 $17.99 Meloy and Harris depict one family’s anarchical bedtime routine within their ramshackle lighthouse-esque domicile. Rollicking rhymes, narrated by a young family member, set the scene: “We all got / tucked in early. / A...
Jules vs. the Ocean by Jessie Sima; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Simon 48 pp. 5/20 978-1-5344-4168-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-4169-9 $10.99 Intent on impressing her older sister at the beach, Jules plans to build a big sandcastle. When the waves foil her plans, she assumes “the Ocean” is...
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...
The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann; illus. by the author Primary Candlewick 56 pp. g 5/20 978-1-5362-0736-1 $17.99 City-dweller Ernestine has never been camping, but when Aunt Jackie and cousin Samantha invite her, she gets her dad’s okay and starts preparing: new flashlight and sleeping bag, a homemade batch...
Rita & Ralph’s Rotten Day by Carmen Agra Deedy; illus. by Pete Oswald Preschool, Primary Scholastic 48 pp. 3/20 978-1-338-21638-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-59927-5 $10.99 Rita and Ralph are best friends. Each day they meet at the apple tree midway between their houses and play games together. One day the...
Green on Green by Dianne White; illus. by Felicita Sala Preschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp. g 3/20 978-1-4814-6278-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-6279-2 $10.99 Do we need another picture book about the seasons? When it’s this good, the answer is an emphatic yes. White’s text is written in eminently readable...
In My Anaana’s Amautik by Nadia Sammurtok; illus. by Lenny Lishchenko Preschool Inhabit Media 24 pp. 4/20 978-1-77227-252-9 $16.95 A baby’s perspective of being held in its anaana’s (mother’s) amautik (“the pouch in the back of a woman’s parka where a baby can be carried”) is explored in lulling, sensory-rich...
Lift by Minh Lê; illus. by Dan Santat Primary Little, Brown 48 pp. g 5/20 978-1-368-03692-4 $17.99 Lê and Santat (Drawn Together, rev. 7/18) present another story focused on everyday familial relationships, expressed through concise writing and extraordinary visuals. As young Iris waits for an elevator with her family in...
One Little Bag: An Amazing Journey by Henry Cole; illus. by the author Primary Scholastic 48 pp. g 4/20 978-1-338-35997-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-59929-9 $11.99 This wordless story follows a family and a paper bag through the generations. A tree becomes a log that gets hauled to a paper mill,...
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