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    Review of the Day: Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons and Daniel Minter

    Betsy Bird, June 6, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    Maybe I'm a little envious of Kelly Starling Lyons. She knows how to write a killer book. Plus she got paired with the incomparable Daniel Minter, so right there. Right there. But really, I have no time to be envious of anyone. I'm using that time instead to be just so darn grateful this book exists at all. Family rendered in its most beautiful light. A treasure in hand indeed.

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    Review of the Day: Maybe Tomorrow? by Charlotte Agell, ill. Ana Ramírez González

    Betsy Bird, May 17, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    Today I look at an infinitely gentle take on the feelings we lug around inside of ourselves and why we don’t have to always lug them on our own. Maybe Tomorrow? is, at its heart, about how to be a good friend. A seemingly simple lesson for a deeply complex world.

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    Review of the Day: Crab Cake by Andrea Tsurumi

    Betsy Bird, April 24, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    A book that effectively establishes normality, disrupts it with horror, and then assures the reader that normality can return. If Tsurumi's previous picture book, Accident, was about taking responsibility for your mistakes, Crab Cake is about taking care of yourself when the mistake is not your own.

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    Review of the Day: The Girl and the Wolf by Katherena Vermette, ill. Julie Flett

    Betsy Bird, April 4, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    The Girl and the Wolf by Métis author Katherena Vermette and Cree- Métis artist Julie Flett, is an original fairytale in the purest sense of the term. Essentially, it takes a European idea and flips it on its head. A book that cracks the limitations of the fairy tale form wide open.

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    Review of the Day: The Happy Book by Andy Rash

    Betsy Bird, March 13, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    You have other books about emotions that you love, I have no doubt, but seriously consider supplementing them with Rash’s latest. A loving little book unafraid to be happy, sad, angry, scared, and supremely good.

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    Review of the Day: Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit, ill. Arthur Rackham

    Betsy Bird, February 20, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    Want to look at Cinderella through the mores of the 21st century? I suggest pairing yourself up with an artist that’s been dead for 80 years. Why it’s so crazy, it just might work.

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    Review of the Day: The Full House and the Empty House by LK James

    Betsy Bird, January 31, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    A bit of art, a bit of text, this title typifies picture books at their best. Bold and small and gutsy and quiet. A title you could easily miss, but why would you want to?

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    Review of the Day: Let’s Have a Dog Party! by Mikela Prevost

    Betsy Bird, January 9, 2019 | Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Reviews, Reviews 2019

    In her debut picture book, Mikela Prevost dares to question what happens when we thrust our own wants and needs upon others without their consent. Maybe some dogs like wild parties, but not all dogs are the same. Some dogs are a bit quieter. Some dogs are like Frank.

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