Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Red Nose Studio This is my Earth Day book pick. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but it has really grown on me (it’s one of those books that has been helped rather than hurt by the fact that Eli...
The Loathsome Dragon, retold by David Wiesner and Kim Kahng, illustrated by David Wiesner I thought by now we’d checked all the David Wiesner books out of the library, but little did I know that there were more. I found this one while I was wandering in the...
Ancient Egypt Drawing Book by Ralph Masiello Henry is all about Egypt these days, and I’m all about getting Henry to focus more and put more detail into his drawings, so this book happily satisfies both of us. There are all the classic Egypt icons —...
Silent Letters Loud and Clear by Robin Pulver, illustrated by Lynn Rowe Reed Let me start out by confessing that I don’t love this book. It just seems alright to me, and like maybe it’s trying too hard to be quirky, and like it’s illustrated by the...
A Year at a Construction Site, A Year on a Pirate Ship, A Year in the World of Dinosaurs by Nicholas Harris, Elizabeth Havercroft I’d never heard of this series (the “Time Goes By” series) until a few weeks ago, when we picked up A Year at a...
1 Zany Zoo by Lori Degman, illustrated by Colin Jack We got this book in our box of Cheerios. Lori Degman won some first-time-author, get-your-book-in-a-box-of-Cheerios contest, and here is the result. I feel kind of fancy and in-the-know reviewing a book that...
