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    Nothing a Few Chickens Can’t Fix: Adam Rex and Adam Rubin on Gladys the Magic Chicken

    Betsy Bird, October 20, 2021 | Interviews

    Everything you want to know (and more!) about chickens and prognostication. Two picture book legends join together to give us one of the silliest new books on record.

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    Review of the Day: New In Town by Kevin Cornell

    Betsy Bird, September 2, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    Folks, we live in an era of scam artists so if New in Town is just one of a million tiny answers to the question of how we create a new savvier generation, that’s good enough for me. An exceedingly clever, funny, eye-popping story about not falling for the words of silver tongued devils.

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    Review of the Day: A Tree for Mr. Fish by Peter Stein

    Betsy Bird, August 12, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    Exceedingly simple with an equally simple message (message: Don’t be rude and loud) you wouldn’t expect A Tree for Mr. Fish to be as wackadoodle as it is. And yet, here we are.

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    Review of the Day: The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld

    Betsy Bird, July 20, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    Smart fairytailing that’s tonally on point? More of this, please.

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    Review of the Day: Off-Limits by Helen Yoon

    Betsy Bird, June 24, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    Writing, timing, art, and humor. What's not to love? One thing’s for certain, though. Kids absolutely adore it, and that’s not the kind of thing you can fake.

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    Review of the Day: Ergo by Alexis Deacon, ill. Viviane Schwarz

    Betsy Bird, June 2, 2021 | Best Books, Best Books of 2021, Reviews, Reviews 2021

    It’s a treatise on philosophy as it relates to young children. It’s about escaping the confines of yourself and reaching out to others. And, most importantly, it’s a cute baby chicken picture book where 95% of the action takes place inside an egg.

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    31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Funny Picture Books

    Betsy Bird, December 6, 2020 | 31 Days 31 Lists, Best Books, Best Books of 2020

    There wasn't a whole lot to laugh at in 2020, that's for sure. Yet a great big list of wonderfully funny picture books came out, and here are some of the best. A bit of much needed levity for the year.

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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: 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: Snail Crossing by Corey R. Tabor

    Betsy Bird, March 4, 2020 | Best Books, Best Books of 2020, Reviews, Reviews 2020

    I've read snail picture books before, but few have plumbed their humor quite as well as Tabor has in "Snail Crossing". Less a story of persistence than a lesson in karma, this may well be the first snail-adjacent picture book that has ever made me AND my kids laugh out loud for long periods of time. I can think of not better praise than that.

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