Picture Books
Look! Seeing the Light in Art
I found this quite accidentally when browsing the art shelves in the non-fiction children books section at our library system's main branch last week.
Mind you, I am always carting around mountains of books in huge, oversize bags, and I am thankful for strong, teen sons, and for downtown ballet and piano classes allowing me the time to browse at the library.
Greater Estimations
You may have enjoyed, like we have, Great Estimations in the past. I was happy to find in the library this week a brand new sequel by the same author!
Twenty-Odd Ducks
Lynne Truss does it again, this time stressing the correct use of the hyphen, parenthesis, question and exclamation marks and also more comma use. I feel that my younger kids will have a wonderful and visual grasp of punctuation as they grow up exposed to Truss' humor and fresh approach to grammar! If you haven't enjoyed her first punctuation picture books, don't miss them: Eats, Shoots and Leaves and The Girl's like Spaghetti!
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek
Another fun book we found at our library on Abe Lincoln! A good way to help celebrate President's Day!
Little is known about Lincoln's playmate and the event told in this darling book. I liked the perspective the author and illustrator take to retell the tall, thin tale...!
Addition by Suchi, Feb 2024: Lincoln's friend, Austin Gollaher, told the tale of the 1816 event as follows.
Abe's Honest Words
We are enjoying two new and fun books we found at our library on Abe Lincoln! A good way to help celebrate President's Day!
This one, Honest Abe's Words, is one. The other is Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek.
Planting the Trees of Kenya
When I was doing my research for this year's library tree project, I spent a bunch of time at a local bookstore, checking out great new children's titles. Easily my favorite (which it turns out the library had already purchased) was Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola.