Hello, friends! Our book today is Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast: Mission Defrostable, written by Josh Funk and illustrated by Brendan Kearney, the delightful third entry to the duo’s series. Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast are worried about their fridge kingdom: a devastating chill has descended and is threatening their subjects. As the … Continue reading Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast: Mission Defrostable (Josh Funk)
Tag: silly
A Storytelling Of Ravens (Kyle Lukoff)
Hello, friends! Our book today is A Storytelling Of Ravens, written by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Natalie Nelson, a wonderfully quirky book about animal collectives. Basing each illustration/text example around a different animal collective noun (such as a “storytelling of ravens” or a “shrewdness of apes”), the reader is treated to a number of … Continue reading A Storytelling Of Ravens (Kyle Lukoff)
Olivia The Spy (Ian Falconer)
Hello, friends! Our book today is Olivia The Spy, the most recent of the wonderfully funny Olivia series by Ian Falconer. Olivia the precocious piglet is back, and just as trouble-prone as ever. The story opens of Olivia overhearing a phone conversation of her mother’s in which the exasperated older pig is recounting Olivia’s latest … Continue reading Olivia The Spy (Ian Falconer)
Don’t Tell! (Tom Booth)
Hello, friends! Our book today is Don't Tell! by Tom Booth, the sequel to the delightful Don't Blink!. The little girl and her animal friends from the first book are back, but really, they’re surprised to see YOU here. See, this book was supposed to be a secret! Who told you about this super-secret book? … Continue reading Don’t Tell! (Tom Booth)
Square (Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen)
Hello, friends! Our book today is Square by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, another strange and funny story from the duo that brought you Triangle. Square is a simple shape. Each morning, he wakes up, chooses one of the cube-shaped rocks from inside his cave, and slowly but surely pushes it up the hill to … Continue reading Square (Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen)
