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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Picture Books
Don't worry if you missed some of these picture books this year. Clocking at around 32 pages, you should be able to catch up quickly!
31 Days, 31 Books: 2023 Wordless Picture Books
Today I am saluting these little hero books. They not only took on the challenge of eschewing written communication, but they did so successfully and with aplomb. We should all be so talented.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Transcendent Holiday Picture Books
Today you'll get holidays like Three Kings Day, Ramadan, Halloween, Yom Kippur, Dia De Los Muertos, and even Christmas Eve alongside the usual suspects.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Simple Picture Book Texts
I am pleased to announce that today's list is for the simplest of picture books. Not books for kids first learning to read but that know how to put a minimal number of words on a page.
Review of the Day: Oh, Olive! by Lian Cho
Amusing, sweet, and strange. A wondrous mix of the familiar with the utterly original. Meet Olive for yourself.
Review of the Day: Big by Vashti Harrison
Today we look at one of the latest National Book Award nominees, and the only picture book in the batch.
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Review of the Day: Evergreen by Matthew Cordell
A squirrel heroine. An epic adventure. Delicious hints of familiar fairy tales (Little Red Riding Hood, naturally), and tasty treats. For the anxious child, Evergreen may well be the hero they’ve always needed.
Review of the Day: Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo
A book that takes a pretty basic concept and strings it along to its impossible, illogically logical, end. For some kids, this is going to be the book they remember for the rest of their lives.
Review of the Day: Papá’s Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo, ill. Eliza Kinkz
Clocks and cats, water and magic, and at its heart a father-son storyline. Nab this for your next storytime, whenever you get the chance.
Review of the Day: To the Other Side by Erika Meza
With care and invention, Erika Meza tells a migrant story that is both literal and figurative, realistic and metaphorical, and does so with honesty and more than a bit of cleverness.
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