Hello, friends! Our book today is Meet Your School!, written by Cindy Jin and illustrated by Melissa Crowton, an adorable interactive look at what makes a building a school. With short rhyming couplets of text and a large cast of bipedal animals as students and staff, this lift-the-flap board book walks little readers through some … Continue reading Meet Your School! (Cindy Jin)
Hello, friends! Our book today is Sleep, My Baby, written by Dr. Lena Allen-Shore and Jacques J. M. Shore, and illustrated by Jessica Courtney-Tickle, an enormously sweet lullaby from parent to child in board book form. This bedtime serenade, based on a lullaby written by the author’s mother, opens on a mother carrying her baby … Continue reading Sleep, My Baby (Dr. Lena Allen-Shore & Jacques J. M. Shore)
Hello, friends! Our book today is I'm Feeling School Bus Yellow!, written by Tina Gallo and illustrated by Clair Rossiter, a Crayola-themed board book of back-to-school colors. How do you feel when you go back to school? Do you feel “school bus yellow” while you’re waiting for the bus, bright and excited? Do you feel … Continue reading I’m Feeling School Bus Yellow! (Tina Gallo)
Hello, friends! Our book today is Peep! by Kevin Luthardt, a sweet board book about friendship and growing up. As a little boy wanders through a park, he happens upon a hatching egg (“CRAAAACK!”), out of which emerges a tiny yellow duckling, who immediately lets loose an eager, “Peep!”. Though the boy commands the newborn … Continue reading Peep! (Kevin Luthardt)
Hello, friends! Our book today is Busy Bots by Priddy Books, a sweet seek-and-find board book for young engineers. Meet the Busy Bots! These eighteen animal-inspired creatures - with names like Dogbot, Octobot, Spiderbot, etc. - are ingeniously constructed of (photographs of) household supplies, and are introduced in turn to the reader with simple yet … Continue reading Busy Bots (Priddy Books)
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