Book Reviews
Don’t Count Your Chicks by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire; illus. by the authorsPreschool, Primary University of Minnesota 40 pp.2/23 9781517914462 $17.95Based on a Scandinavian folktale, this lesser-known d’Aulaires’ picture book, first published in 1943, recalls Aesop’s fable “The Milkmaid and Her Pail.” An old woman walks into town to...
The New Friend by Charlotte Zolotow; illus. by Benjamin Chaud Primary Milky Way 48 pp. g 11/21 978-1-990252-01-3 $17.99 The narrator of this picture book had a dear friend and reminisces about the ordinary things they used to do together — until the “dear friend” found a “different friend.” Zolotow’s...
The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales compiled and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen Intermediate NYRB 136 pp. g 11/21 978-1-68137-582-3 $24.95 e-book ed. 978-1-68137-604-2 $14.99 Here are collected (and reissued from the 1971 original) twelve literary fairy tales from several different European traditions, including Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale”;...
Grandmother’s Pigeon by Louise Erdrich; illus. by Jim LaMarche Primary, Intermediate University of Minnesota Press 32 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5179-1147-8 $17.95 “As it turned out, Grandmother was a far more mysterious woman than any of us knew,” begins this enigmatic and enjoyable picture book by Erdrich (The Birchbark House, rev....
Good Night, Good Night by Sandra Boynton; illus. by the author Preschool Little Simon 40 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5344-9974-4 $17.99 In 1985 Boynton followed up her popular 1982 board book The Going to Bed Book with a “larger and longer” picture-book version, which has now been redrawn with small differences...
Brookie and Her Lamb by M. B. Goffstein; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary NYRB 32 pp. g 3/21 978-1-68137-545-8 $16.95 Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary NYRB 32 pp. g 3/21 978-1-68137-546-5 $16.95 Two spare, barely there picture books by minimalist author-illustrator...
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