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Picture Book Round-Up #11
I’m posted up at the Arlington Central Library today powering through some picture books and a bundle of other tasks–let’s dive in! What Does Brown Mean to You? by Ron Grady What a sweet book! A rhyming book taking you through the day of a Black boy looking for all the brown things around him.…
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Picture Book Biography Round-up #1
I love love love picture book biographies. I love learning from them, leaning into their worlds, crying over the ways they depict such vibrant successes and triumphs, and using them in programming. Here’s a round-up of a few picture book biographies I’ve read recently. Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming…
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Picture Book Round-Up #10
Another round-up! Today we’ve got a diverse array of picture books, including a celebrity picture book, a COVID-19 story, a play on Virginia Woolf and more. Have you read any of these? My Name is a Story by Ashanti, illustrated by Monica Mikai Another “my name is different story,” this one’s got the celebrity element…
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Easy Reader Series Series: Dav Pilkey’s DRAGON
When I was growing up, kids loved reading Captain Underpants but it was never really my thing. Then, as a librarian, I saw the kids obsessed with Dog Man. So, of course, when I found his easy reader series, I was intrigued. Originally published in the early 1990s, they were republished in the past few…
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Picture Book Round-Up #9
Quickie round up of some 2022 picture books I missed because of delayed shippings, including some flavorful Jamaican stories, a bilingual story, an a lovely little Witch Frog Soup Story. Granny’s Kitchen by Sade Smith, Illustrated by Ken Daley Shelly-Anne lives in Jamaica with her grandmother, a renown gardener and cook. When Shelly-Anne decides to…
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Easy Reader Series Series: Starla Jean
“I never thought she would catch the chicken, ” Starla Jean’s dad laments but Starla Jean can do anything she sets her mind too, and after seeing a scrawny chicken in the park, she knows she has to save it and bring it home.
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Easy Reader Series Series: Fox & Chick
Up next in our series on series of Easy Readers, we have Fox & Chick, by Sergio Ruzzier. As of my writing of this, there are four books in the series. Each contains three short stories, told in comic-panel format. Fox & Chick: The Party and Other Stories In this first collection, told in easy…
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Upcoming Releases: Picture Book Round-Up
I just love picture books. I love how moving they can be with just 40 pages and some gorgeous art. I love seeing the didactic messages some adults try to shoe-horn into them. I love when a one page spread of joy brings tears to my eyes. I love what memories a particular character drawing…
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Picture Book Round-Up #8
Back again with another picture book round up–all of these published in 2022, and a mix of fiction and non-fiction. We’ve got books are taking care as a theme here, along with a focus on community. Firefighter Flo! by Andrea Zimmerman, pictures by Dan Yaccarino This is a fun, action-packed story focused on a female…
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Easy Reader Series Series: My Weird School
Time for another look at an Easy Reader Series, the Level 2 Easy reader adaptations of the My Weird School books. I’ll be honest–I haven’t read the chapter books, or the graphic novels, so I don’t know if these are adaptations of those same stories, of just the world, new characters, etc. Regardless, there are…
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January 2023 Reading Recap
I can finally talk about what I’m reading again
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Read-Alike Round Up: Mary Had a Little..
Welcome to this new series, or maybe one off blog, where I discuss multiple children’s books all based around the same premise. Today, we have a round-up of books based on the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” Here we go! Mary Had a Little Lizard, by Kayla Harren Lizards, lambs, whats the difference?…
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