A beautiful, outstanding book for all ages. It describes how taking care of one's self strengthens the entire community! And how we all need each other. "All of us important, none of us alone." Great messages of unity, inclusion, and connection. I loved it!
Congratulations to author Miranda Paul who has been named the Wisconsin Library Association “Notable Wisconsin Author” for 2024! From the WLA website:
Miranda Paul is an award-winning children’s
author of One Plastic Bag and Water is Water,
both named Junior Library Guild selections.
365: How to Count Your Year, released in September 2023, was named a CCBC
Choices pick.
In 2020, the CBAC recognized her and her
husband’s book, I am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in
Cameroon as one of its Outstanding Books of the year.
Her titles have received starred reviews
from School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly in
addition to being named to several recommended and “best of” reading
lists.
10 Little Ninjas also was named an Amazon Best Book of
the Month (August 2016).
Miranda makes regular appearances at
schools, libraries, and bookstores, and has been a guest presenter at the
Library of Congress Young Readers Center along with environmental activist
Isatou Ceesay. Miranda also serves as Mentorship chair for We Need
Diverse Books™ (www.diversebooks.org), volunteers for Books for Africa,
and is a regional advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers
(Wisconsin Chapter). She believes in working hard, having fun, and
being kind.
Learn more about her current and
forthcoming titles at www.mirandapaul.com.
Anything by
author and librarian Cynthia Rylant is a surefire winner! I fell in love with
her books when I was a teacher and I am still a fan as a librarian. Her books
fall in that range of books for emerging readers. They are early chapter books
with heart. They contain humor and strong vocabulary words. We have them housed
in easy readers, paperback and hardbound. We are glad to show you where they
are for check out!
Books about friendship are perfectly suited
for the “younger set” as they are learning about friendship themselves. All of
these characters have adventures and conundrums (!) with their friends. Some of
Rylant’s series are Annie and Snowball; Brownie and Pearl; Henry and Mudge;
Motor Mouse; and Poppleton.
It is a joy to
see patrons share the books they loved as children with their now children and
grandchildren!
This book holds the sweet lesson that the joy of cooking is in the sharing of the results with others. I just found out that Kobe is an Instagram sensation! I liked the modern images of the parents...mom and dad both had tats on their arms in the illustrations.
Kobe Eats Pizza!
Ashley Wian
illustrated by Joy Ang
c) 2022
This book has an old-fashioned feel and is very sweet. The pictures are charming. We fall in love with Pretzel who is a mega-length dachshund. He uses this physical attribute to make a daring rescue of another dachshund named Greta. They eventually marry--the picture of all of the dogs going to the wedding is delightful!
