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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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    31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Funny Picture Books

    Betsy Bird, December 6, 2019 | 31 Days 31 Lists, Best Books, Best Books of 2019, Booklists

    Judging a picture book based on humor alone really comes down to the sense of humor of the reader. On that note, let me state clearly that the books you'll see here were just the ones that highly amused ME this year.

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    Review of the Day: Mr. Nogginbody Gets a Hammer by David Shannon

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

    I don’t know what it took to make Mr. Nogginbody come into the world, but whatever confluence of the planets allowed this madcap exercise in increasing hijinks to happen, I say let’s have more of it! In a sea of picture books that remain unmemorable five minutes after you’ve read them, Mr. Nogginbody hits the nail on the head. Hard.

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    Review of the Day: Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe

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

    There’s something going on in this book. A wry, whipsmart, funny tale that actually may have a thing or two to say about female empowerment. Or not? It’s easy to read too much into this book, but I’d say it’s also just as easy to read into it everything that you need it to be. Intelligent writing for kids that will not just appeal but engage and entice.

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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 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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    31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Funny Picture Books

    Betsy Bird, December 7, 2018 | 31 Days 31 Lists, Best Books of 2018

    This might be my favorite picture book list of the 31 Days, 31 Books countdown. How could it not be? Get ready for titles that'll have the small fry howling in the aisles.

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    Book Trailer Reveal: Meet the Latkes by Alan Silberberg

    Betsy Bird, November 20, 2018 | Videos

    Every year in December I do this 31 Days, 31 Books series. On each day I present a different list full of the best of the year. Board Books one day. Funny picture books another. And somewhere in there I put out a list I like to call Transcendent Holiday Books. These are the books […]

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    Review of the Day: A Storytelling of Ravens by Kyle Lukoff and Natalie Nelson

    Betsy Bird, November 16, 2018 | Reviews, Reviews 2018

    A Storytelling of Ravens By Kyle Lukoff Illustrated by Natalie Nelson Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-55498-912-6 Ages 4-7 On shelves now Humans love groups. We love separating ourselves into them, or putting other people into them (even when they don’t particularly want to be grouped). As small children, it’s one […]

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    Review of the Day: The Funeral by Matt James

    Betsy Bird, October 3, 2018 | Reviews

    The Funeral By Matt James Groundwood Books (an imprint of House of Anansi Press) ISBN: 978-1-55498-908-9 $18.95 Ages 4-7 On shelves now They say you don’t truly fear death until you have children. I’ll tweak that slightly. I say, you don’t truly fear talking about death until you have children. At least if you’re an […]

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