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Tag: picture books for older readers
31 Days, 31 Lists: Day 17 – 2016 Older Picture Books
Time to define my terms again! This is undoubtedly the most subjective of all my lists. Basically, what I’m saying with it, is that picture books are far more wide-ranging than many people suspect. If you say “picture book” they’ll imagine something for a 4-year-old. Nothing wrong with picture books for 4-year-olds, of course, but […]
Review of the Day: Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan
Rules of Summer By Shaun Tan Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic) $18.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-63912-5 Ages 4 and up On shelves April 29th When I was a young teen my favorite book was Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. Steeped in Bradbury’s nostalgia for his youth, I was in the throes of adolescence, probably on […]
Review of the Day – Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse by Torben Kuhlmann
Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse By Torben Kuhlmann Translation by Suzanne Fitzgerald Levesque NorthSouth $19.95 ISBN: 978-0735841673 Ages 4-8 On shelves May 1st The mouse, as hero, is an easy children’s book hero. With its diet so nearly identical to that of humans, its cute and cuddly face (sorry rats), and the sense […]
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Review of the Day – Dark Fiddler: The Life and Legend of Nicolo Paganini by Aaron Frisch
Dark Fiddler: The Life and Legend of Nicolo Paganini By Aaron Frisch Illustrated by Gary Kelley Creative Editions $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-56846-200-4 Ages 9 and up On shelves now The picture book biographer is often a limited soul. If you are churning out biography after biography for a large company then I’m sure the job must […]
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