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Tag: 2021 picture books
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Picture Books
Today's list represents just a handful of the titles published this year. This is some, but surely not all, of the finest. If you need a starting place where you can get a sense of what the year entailed, use this list.
Review of the Day: Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown
Today we look at a book about choice. Children’s choices and the choices adults make when faced with their own kids’ curiosity about their bodies and the clothing that goes onto it. I review Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown.
Review of the Day: Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler, ill. Loren Long
Lisa Wheeler and Loren Long have given us a title that is filled up to the brim with dignity. Dignity for the people who actually put their blood, sweat, and tears into making the places and objects we so desperately need to live.
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Review of the Day: The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld
Smart fairytailing that’s tonally on point? More of this, please.
Review of the Day: Opposites Abstract by Mo Willems
No elephants. No piggies. No pigeons. And yet there's something about this abstracted concept book to lure me into reviewing it. I haven't reviewed Mo in 14 years. See why I've come around.
Review of the Day: The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer, ill. Mariachiara Di Giorgio
This book is an utter joy. One of those titles that lives up to, and then proceeds to exceed, the hype. Heck, I’ll say it. One of the best wordless books I’ve ever read. Full stop. Period.
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Review of the Day: Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña, ill. Christian Robinson
Read this book to a child when you yourself need to remember that the world is full of horrible, wonderful, complicated people and that there are millions of their stories out there just waiting to be learned.
Review of the Day: The Rock From the Sky by Jon Klassen
Here we have animals and hats and mysterious goings on. Read it cover to cover and you’re just swept up in a book that cultivates a singular sense of comic timing and tone policing that never falters or strays. It is, in fact, Klassen's best book to date. Period.
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