Fish Storytime Recently, we started to offer some storytime themes to go along with “Oceans of Possibilities,” the theme of the 2022 Collaborative Summer Library Program: https://www.cslpreads.org/ . This month we offer stories on [continue reading]
Mountains Storytime
Mountains Storytime Recently, we started to offer some storytime themes to go along with “Read Beyond the Beaten Path,” the theme of the 2022 iRead summer reading program: https://www.ireadprogram.org/ focusing on a summer camp at [continue reading]
Eyes That Speak to the Stars Review
Ho, Joanna. Eyes That Speak to the Stars. Dung Ho, Illus. Picture Book. HarperCollins, 02/2022. [36]pp. $18.99. 978-0-06-305775-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. When a father picks his son up from school, the boy, upset, tells him [continue reading]
Out of the Ordinary
Perrin, Clotilde. Inside the Suitcase. Gecko Press, 09/2021. [20p.]. $21.99, 978-1-776573-43-1. Originally published in France and translated by Daniel Hahn, this picture book with flaps is about a boy with a magical red suitcase. [continue reading]
SPRING BOARD BOOK ROUND-UP, PART II
SPRING BOARD BOOK ROUND-UP, PART II New Board Books Cousins, Lucy. Little Fish’s Ocean. Candlewick, 03/2022. [10p.] $9.99. 978-1-5362-1685-1. A rhyming text and gatefold flaps combine for a solid story on undersea life, [continue reading]
Chirp! Review
Murphy, Mary. Chirp! Mary Murphy, Illus. Picture Book. Candlewick, 03/2022. [32]pp. $17.99. 978-1-5362-1769-8. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES PRE-K. Birds say hello to a brand new day with a tempo building from one sparrow chirping as the [continue reading]
Author Jim Murphy Dies
Author Jim Murphy Dies: Jim Murphy, author of several award-winning nonfiction books for children, died at age 74 on May 1, 2022. He began as an editor’s assistant but decided on being a children’s author. [continue reading]
Frankie & Bug Read-Alikes
Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman Callender, Kacen. King and the Dragonflies. Dee, Barbara. Violets Are Blue. Hiranandani, Veera. How to Find What You’re Not Looking For. Holm, Jennifer L. The Lion of Mars. Kelly, [continue reading]