Written by Jonathan Stutzman, Illustrated by Heather Fox Another silly pigeon, AKA Coo, warning book, written by the Llama Destroys the World team of Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox. It also has the style of the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie theme, without the ongoing buildup, but this is clever and original in …
Written and Illustrated by Duncan Beedie This is a story about having a dream, setting a goal, failing, and not giving up. Molly is a moth who dreams of becoming an astronaut and flying to the moon. Discouragement and doubt from her mother and other insect creatures never let her lose her determination, and along …
Retold by Georghia Ellinas, Illustrated by Jane Ray I am not familiar with Shakespeare’s The Tempest in its original form, so this review is from that perspective. As a picture book this is a complex story with a lot of characters, told in first person by the magic sprite Ariel. She tells of her imprisonment …
Written and Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler Inspired by the author’s grandmother’s childhood, growing up during the Great Depression. When Marvel’s father dies from cancer and her mother is left to raise eight children between ages 3 months to 14 years, they are forced to find an abandoned, tumbledown shack in the woods and turn it …
Written by Patricia MacLachlan, Illustrated by Kenard Pak By the time I finished this picture book I was bawling. Patricia McLachlan, author of Sarah, Plain and Tall, has written a story 100 years in the making. In 1819 her grandparents, who had come from Russia and settled in the plains of North Dakota, needed to …
Written by Eileen Spinelli This is an incredibly sweet story about 12 year-old Birdie Briggs, who loves birds, bird watching, and bird facts. Birdie has just moved to Idaho with her mother, to live with her Grandma, after the death of her father. It’s about first love, second love, friendship, grief, and healing. Lovely characters …
