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The Light Within You – Perfect Picture Book FridayWe need more hope and kindness in our world, and this book offers up a light-filled heart and generous, inclusive spirit....
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A Garden in My Hands – Perfect Picture Book FridayI have long admired henna art, but I didn’t know how the paint was made, or that its shade deepens the longer the paint remains...
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Make Way for Butterfly – Perfect Picture Book FridayNew authors sometimes ask “What is this thing called ‘a character-driven story?” Today, I’m offering up a stellar example,...
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ZigZag – Perfect Picture Book FridayMeet Zigzag, the alligator with synesthesia. Text/Illus. ©Julie Paschkis Zigzag liked to taste words. He liked to...
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A River of Dust – Kidquake presentationHello, everyone!! Popping in early this week to announce that the San Francisco Public Library has posted the livestream...
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In the Night Garden – Perfect Picture Book Friday* Some picture books are such a visual feast you might not care if the words are less than stellar. This isn’t the case for...
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River of Mariposas – Perfect Picture Book FridayI love how this story begins: “Can you imagine a time when the land and the sky belonged to the mariposas?” It welcomes the...
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How to Hatch a Reader – Perfect Picture Book FridayNeed a book that will help guide and smooth out the “learning to read” process? A book that’s fun, a-bawk! with...
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Humphrey the Egg-splorer – Perfect Picture Book FridayThis week’s PPBF pick is an egg after my own heart. World explorers unite! Before reading Humphrey The Egg-splorer to kids,...
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Beatrice Likes the Dark – Perfect Picture Book FridayThere are picture books you read and enjoy, but they don’t stick with you. And then there are picture books you read and become obsessed...
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A River of Dust on LitLinks!Popping in from my late summer respite to post a link to Patricia Newman’s LitLinks blog, offering English Language Arts (and...
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Time for R and RHello, everyone! Thank you all for your support during the launch of A RIVER OF DUST! * One thing before I take a long...
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A River of Dust – Arrives in 4 days!!I’m interrupting the regularly-scheduled Perfect Picture Book Friday post to celebrate the completion of a project that is dear to my heart....
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Great Carrier Reef – Perfect Picture Book Friday* If you sink it, they will come. That’s what happened to an aircraft carrier called The Mighty O, a ship that completed...
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Hope in the Valley – Perfect Middle Grade Surprise!* What? No perfect picture book today! Instead, I want to feature a middle grade book with plot lines that resemble NYC’s...
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Ludwig and the Rhinoceros – Perfect Picture Book Friday* Take a look at this cover, and try to guess what this story is about. Yes, it involves a child and a rhinoceros. And, yes,...
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Pirate & Penguin – Perfect Picture Book Friday* Some days you really need a funny picture book. Here’s one to add to your collection. PIRATE & PENGUIN is a case of...
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Genius Noses – Perfect Picture Book FridayI loves seeing a STEM picture book that takes a topic one might consider boring (the humble proboscis) and turns it into a fascinating...
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Door by Door – Perfect Picture Book FridayI attended a book launch through the Writing Barn last week for this wonderful picture book biography. Sarah McBride is our...
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How to Get Your Octopus to School – Perfect Picture Book FridayWho loves octopuses? Please raise your eight arms! * In this endearing and inventively-illustrated new book about first-day...
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Climate Warriors – Perfect Picture Book (+MG) FridaySome picture books land at the upper end of elementary school and into middle school, due to their complex content, vocabulary, and word count....
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Poop for Breakfast – Perfect Picture Book Friday* A brilliant title for the kidlit audience, but I have to admit that I was intrigued, too! Readers learn the scientific term for...
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Behold the Octopus! – Perfect Picture Book FridayEver since I learned about the octopus that sneaked out of its tank at night to snack on fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I’ve had a deep...
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Debbie’s Song – Perfect Picture Book FridayDebbie Friedman was a Jewish girl who felt music stir her soul from the time she was child. Text ©Ellen...
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Ancient Night – Perfect Picture Book FridayOther reviewers have called this book “luminous,” “enchanting,” and “ethereal.” I agree! And...
