Baby Shower & Birthday Gift Ideas
Looking for a cute, useful, thoughtful baby shower or birthday gift? Why not put together a little themed bundle for your friend’s bundle of joy? This all started because of a crayon onesie that my son wears from Old Navy, and me thinking how great it would go with the Day The Crayons Quit. The…
DARK CLOUD
Today is Child and Youth Mental Health Day, so I wanted to feature a new picture book about depression & anxiety. I love that publishers are creating kids’ books that talk about mental health. Dark Cloud does this with sensitivity – it doesn’t make depression scary, but also doesn’t pretend that everything will always resolve…
Dear Street
Dear Street is an ode to gratitude, city life, and the ways in which we choose to enrich our communities. Alice lives on a vibrant street – a street with so much going on that people often find a reason to complain and grumble about the noise and the busy, and forget to slow down…
Kumo the Bashful Cloud
Kumo the bashful cloud, by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Nathalie Dion Themes: Confidence, being yourself, letting yourself be seen by the world, quiet, gratitude, self-doubt, boldness What a lovely story about Kumo (Japanese for “cloud”) being called to share her cloud talents with the world. She doesn’t feel quite ready, but the other clouds are…
Midnight & Moon
Midnight & Moon by Kelly Cooper and Daniel Miyares. This story is a gentle, somewhat somber journey of two unlikely friends – a little girl named Clara, and a horse named Moon. Clara cannot speak, but hears and observes the most tiny and delicate details all around her. Moon, her new baby foal, is blind,…
Only the Trees Know
Only the Trees KnowBy Jane Whittingham @picture.book.janeIllustrated by Cinyee Chiu @ccinyee Only the Trees Know is about waiting and curiosity. Winter has been long, and Little Rabbit feels like it’s never going to end. He doesn’t like being patient, and begins to ask everyone around him when Spring will be arriving. When he’s told to ask the…
I Hope
I Hope by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard. What do you hope for your children? Your students? Your family? I Hope is all about the things we hope our children become, the people that they will be, and the way they will interact with others and the world around them. The version I…
In The Clouds
“Do you think clouds have memories? Can they remember the dinosaurs?” A book for the curious, the daydreamers, and both adults and children who obsess over kidlit illustration. Definitely check out more of Elly MacKay’s artwork – the photography of her delicate paper worlds is unique and entrancing. I borrowed this book from the library.…
CRIMSON TWILL Witch in the City
Crimson Twill may not be who you typically picture when you think of a witch. Instead of a pointy black hat and cape, she stands out in a polka-dot dress and red hat with a bow. Rather than cackling, she giggles and skips her way through life. She also is a small town witch, living…
Lights Day and Night
Months ago I posted about SOUNDS ALL AROUND, The Science of How Sound Works. LIGHTS DAY AND NIGHT is just as great and serves as a fun introduction to light, how the eye works, and the ways that we use light to communicate. The way the text and illustrations work together is so important in…
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