Susan Dove Lempke
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Review of On a Rainy Day
On a Rainy Day by Sarah LuAnn Perkins; illus. by the authorPreschool Viking 32 pp. g3/22 978-0-593-40508-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-40510-9 $10.99The “WHOOOSH!” and CRRRREAK!” of a swing is interrupted by the “dit dot drip!” of raindrops, and “soon, there are more.” A brown-skinned, dark-haired father and daughter reluctantly head to...
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Review of A Is for Bee: An Alphabet Book in Translation
A Is for Bee: An Alphabet Book in Translation by Ellen Heck; illus. by the authorPrimary Levine Querido 40 pp. g3/22 978-1-64614-127-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-64614-153-1 $17.99It would seem that alphabet picture books have covered everything from A to Z (including mixing things up à la Bingham and Zelinsky’s hilarious Z...
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Review of On a Rainy Day
On a Rainy Day by Sarah LuAnn Perkins; illus. by the authorPreschool Viking 32 pp. g3/22 978-0-593-40508-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-40510-9 $10.99The “WHOOOSH!” and CRRRREAK!” of a swing is interrupted by the “dit dot drip!” of raindrops, and “soon, there are more.” A brown-skinned, dark-haired father and daughter reluctantly head to...
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Review of A Is for Bee: An Alphabet Book in Translation
A Is for Bee: An Alphabet Book in Translation by Ellen Heck; illus. by the authorPrimary Levine Querido 40 pp. g3/22 978-1-64614-127-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-64614-153-1 $17.99It would seem that alphabet picture books have covered everything from A to Z (including mixing things up à la Bingham and Zelinsky’s hilarious Z...
Review of B Is for Baby
B Is for Babyby Atinuke; illus. by Angela BrooksbankPreschool Candlewick 40 pp.3/19 978-1-5362-0166-6 $16.99Atinuke and Brooksbank (Baby Goes to Market) reunite for another tenderly funny slice-of-life story set in an unspecified African village and starring a winsome baby girl, who is dearly loved. This alphabet book sticks with the letter...
Review of The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog: And Other How-To Poems
The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog: And Other How-To Poemsselected by Paul B. Janeczko; illus. by Richard JonesPrimary Candlewick 48 pp. g3/19 978-0-7636-8168-5 $17.99The thirty-three poems in this “how-to” collection range from the whimsical, such as Monica Shannon’s “How to Tell Goblins from Elves,” to the very practical, such...
Review of The Home Builders
The Home Buildersby Varsha Bajaj; illus. by Simona MulazzaniPreschool Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g2/19 978-0-399-16685-3 $17.99This picture book invites children to observe nature for themselves as a variety of creatures busily create their homes: “Do you see the home builders?” The builders work “under the earth, /...
Review of Meet Miss Fancy
Meet Miss Fancyby Irene Latham; illus. by John HolyfieldPrimary Putnam 32 pp. g1/19 978-0-399-54668-6 $17.99 Frank (an African American boy who looks to be about ten years old) already loves elephants, with “their flip-flap ears, their tree-stump feet and their swish-swish tails,” so when he hears that a circus elephant named...
Review of The Mad Wolf's Daughter audiobook
The Mad Wolf’s Daughterby Diane Magras; read by Joshua ManningIntermediate, Middle School Listening Library Rev. 7/186 CDs 6.62 hrs. 978-0-525-53134-0 $50.00Drest is determined to free her captured older brothers and father from Faintree Castle, where they soon will be hanged, and she means to use the young knight she rescued...
