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    Review of the Day: A Cat Story by Ursula Murray Husted

    Betsy Bird, July 29, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    Gorgeously wrought and tenderly rendered, this feels like a labor of love that will snuggle itself deep into the hearts and minds of kids everywhere. Regardless of whether or not you even like cats, you will find much to admire and love (not necessarily in that order) in this gutsy little book.

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    Review of the Day: A Game of Fox and Squirrels by Jenn Reese

    Betsy Bird, July 23, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    It’s a mystery. It’s a game. It’s filled with puzzles and riddles and clues. It’s funny, and it’s deadly serious. Parts are evocative and parts are heartfelt and parts are completely unforgettable. Having a rough day/week/month/year? Cuddle up to this. Challenging enough to intrigue you. Enticing enough to keep you.

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    Review of the Day: See the Cat by David LaRochelle, ill. Mike Wohnoutka

    Betsy Bird, July 16, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    You can hand today's book to a kid learning to read, absolutely. Just be warned that their read may be punctuated with interjections of a highly voluble nature. In other words, this is laugh-out-loud funny.

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    Review of the Day: Rescuing the Declaration of Independence by Anna Crowley Redding, ill. Edwin Fotheringham

    Betsy Bird, July 9, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    The true story of the man responsible for keeping key American documents out of the hands of the invading British in 1812. A book about the rescue of ideas put to paper.

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    Review of the Day: Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte

    Betsy Bird, July 1, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    May casual cruelties fall by the wayside in the presence of such books as this ione. May our children find it and love it and read it repeatedly. And may we see more such books from Ann Clare LeZotte and authors like her, that put work and care into the very folds of their stories.

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    Review of the Day: When You Look Up by Decur

    Betsy Bird, June 17, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    A picture book and a graphic novel and an early chapter book and a bedtime story all rolled into one impossible-to-define package. I'm not even kidding when I say that When You Look Up by Decur gives you a deep and abiding faith in 21st century storytelling. Now if only I could figure out where to shelve it...

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    Review of the Day: Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

    Betsy Bird, June 11, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    We may have spent the better part of Poetry Month sheltering in place, but that doesn’t mean poetry went to sleep. Instead, books like this one have just been biding their time. Go out. Find it. Discover it. And discover why a book this good deserves some keen adjectives in its arsenal.

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    Review of the Day: Wink by Rob Harrell

    Betsy Bird, May 28, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    They say, write what you know. And if what you know is how to lie on a steel table, your head screwed into place, a laser pointed at your face, that might be a good place to start. We live in dark times. How dark are they? SO dark that a book about a kid with a potentially deadly eye cancer is the bit of lighthearted levity we all need and crave.

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    Review of the Day: Nerp! by Sarah Lynne Reul

    Betsy Bird, May 21, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    You know those parents that get roped into reading to their kids’ preschool/Kindergarten/church group and walk aimlessly through libraries and bookstores in a hazy daze of barely contained fear? This book is for them. Guaranteed laughs, short content, and the kind of book I could see a kid demanding over and over again. Worth buying? “Yerp!”

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    Review of the Day : We Are Power by Todd Hasak-Lowy

    Betsy Bird, May 13, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    You don’t need to be a president or a military leader to change the world. Anyone can do it but it takes faith and numbers. It takes smarts and skills and morals. And what it really takes is a knowledge of history. Of what works and what doesn’t. It takes this book. Now hand it to someone who needs it.

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