Quirky and loveable

 Adorable verse that can be sung aloud to THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS tune. The reader gets a review of time but also a thought for better eating with a healthy vegetable! The voracious eater in the story is crocodile.

So fun!

 This book is a delight! It is set in New York City. Lulu is a pug who would like to learn to waltz. Unfortunately, she gets sidetracked from practicing by the distraction of Joey's Pizza! Lulu learns how to be more disciplined and it pays off. So cute!

Beautiful, informative book!

  This is a gorgeous picture book celebrating the loon. The fictional story is based upon facts about loons that are listed on the last page. "Chicks don't get their full adult voice until they are eight months old. They cannot yodel until they are about two years old." Fantastic! How cool is this tidbit: "You can hear a loon's call @ www.loon.org." I highly recommend this book! 

 

Romping of animals makes us happy!

 

Julie Flett is a Cree-Metis author and illustrator. This gorgeous book is a celebration of animals--their movements and antics--and how humans enjoy playing, too! Cree words are introduced in this book. The pictures are very inviting in this pretty, inclusive book.

Adorable!

 

Adorable! Gertie is a small yak and wishes she was big. Her mother explains to her that “being big” is not just about being large. Gertie is invited to rescue “the teeniest yak” and she is able to accomplish the task because she is small. This teaches her the lesson about liking the size she is and working with that. When Gertie is devising a GROWING-UP PLAN she decides to read books. This is my favorite quote from the story:
“And she read lots of books to make her thoughts grow (because grown-ups have big things to think and to know).” Too true!
The pictures are delightful with wonderful, comical expressions on the faces of the yaks!

 

We are all connected, what a super book coming up on the holiday of Thanksgiving!

This beautiful book is a companion to THE INVISIBLE STRING. It is about how all life is connected to each other. This is written and expressed so that it resonates with all of us. The dedication is to "the REAL worldwide web." I love that!

This beautiful book is about how all of our invisible strings of love connect us, even to the people who have gone before us. An inexplicit message about grief makes this a sweet book for a collection on that topic. 
 

The Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award 2021

 Fantastic! Tuning into the sense of hearing, this book follows a little girl named Lina as she experiences snow in different ways. She is on her way to visit Sitti who has low vision. By the end of the story, she discovers that Sitti's sense of hearing is heightened, too. The friendship between Sitti and Lina (grandmother and granddaughter) is delightful. They spend time working on a family tradition of making warak enab and enjoy each other's company. This is a debut book for the author! Congratulations! This book has won the 2021 The Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award in Wisconsin. Well deserved!