Seasons – Revised Follow up your storytime on the months of the year (Months of the Year – Revised) with one focused on the seasons. For an art project, make one of these suggestions: [continue reading]
Nocturnal Animals – Revised
Nocturnal Animals – Revised Winter is a great time to celebrate nocturnal animals because it gets dark so early in the evening. For an art project, make these fun owl puppets: Paper Bag Owl [continue reading]
Is a Book a Box for Words? Review
Ziefert, Harriet. Is a Book a Box for Words? Mercè Galí, Illus. Red Comet, 10/2024. [32]pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.99. 978-1-63655-125-8. GRADES Preschool–Kindergarten. ADDITIONAL. What is a box? This sounds like a simple question, but this semi-concept title runs with the definition, stretching it to be nearly [continue reading]
Dive, Dive into the Night Sea Review
Lu, Thea. Dive, Dive into the Night Sea. Thea Lu, Illus. Candlewick, 10/2024. [32]pp. Picture Book. Trade $19.99. 978-1-5362-3415-2. GRADES Preschool–2. OUTSTANDING. Opening horizontally, lush double-page spreads explore the night sea. Soft layers of gray and black ink wash are rubbed back to white, or touched with [continue reading]
Observologist, The: Review
Clarkson, Giselle. Observologist, The: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions. Giselle Clarkson, Illus. Gecko, 02/2024. 120pp. Nonfiction. Trade $24.99. 978-1-7765-7519-0. GRADES 3–7. OUTSTANDING. The skills, habits, and background knowledge necessary for scientific observation are clearly laid out in this whimsically illustrated field guide, [continue reading]
ALA 2025 YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS ANNOUNCED
ALA 2025 YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS ANNOUNCED Erin Entrada Kelly’s The First State of Being (Greenwillow/HarperCollins) was named the 2025 Newbery Medal winner, announced on January 27th by the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC), [continue reading]
Author Jules Feiffer Dies
Author Jules Feiffer Dies: Author and illustrator Jules Feiffer died at age 95 at home in New York on January 21, 2025. His many children’s books included Bark, George (Harper, 1999) and A Barrel of [continue reading]
Impossible Creatures Read-Alikes
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell Alessandri, Alexandra. The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejia. Applegate, Katherine. Willodean. Doshi, Payal. Rea and the Blood of the Nectar. Fawcett, Heather. The Islands of Elsewhere. Gaiman, Neil. The [continue reading]