Picture Book Reviews

Adele and Simon

Adele and Simon

Barbara McClintock
For ages 4 to 8
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006   ISBN: 978-0374380441
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Good-bye Winter! Hello Spring

Good-bye Winter! Hello Spring

Kazuo Iwamura
Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
NorthSouth, 2019   ISBN: 978-0735843455
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The Reluctant Dragon

The Reluctant Dragon

Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator:  Ernest H. Shepard 
Fiction
For ages 7 and up
Holiday House, 2020   ISBN: 978-0823447251
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Thankful

Thankful

Elaine Vickers
Illustrator:  Samantha Cotterill 
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Simon and Schuster, 2021   ISBN: 978-1534477346
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Wish

Wish

Chris Saunders
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Quarto, 2019   ISBN: 978-1786033468
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Almost a Full Moon

Almost a Full Moon

Hawksley Workman
Illustrator:  Jensine Eckwall 
Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Tundra Books, 2016   ISBN: 978-1770498716
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Redwall: the Graphic Novel

Redwall: the Graphic Novel

Brian Jacques
Illustrator:  Bret Blevins 
Graphic Novel
For ages 9 and up
Penguin, 2007   ISBN: 978-0399244810
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Lawrence in the Fall

Lawrence in the Fall

Matthew Farina
Illustrator:  Doug Salati 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Disney-Hyperion, 2019   ISBN: 978-1484780589
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The Tall Man and the Small Mouse

The Tall Man and the Small Mouse

Mara Bergman
Illustrator:  Birgitta Sif 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Candlewick, 2019   ISBN: 978-1536201680
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Ready for Pumpkins

Ready for Pumpkins

Kate Duke
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Random House Children's Books, 2012   ISBN: 978-0375870682
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Ida and the Whale

Ida and the Whale

Rebecca Gugger
Illustrator:  Simon Rothlisberger 
Picture Book
For ages 4 and up
NorthSouth Books, 2019   ISBN: 978-0735843417
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I Have an Idea!

I Have an Idea!

Herve Tullet
Picture Book
For ages 6 and up
Chronicle Books, 2019   ISBN: 978-1452178585
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Four Otters Toboggan: An Animal Counting Book

Four Otters Toboggan: An Animal Counting Book

Vivian Kirkfield
Illustrator:  Mirka Hokkanen 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Pomegranate, 2019   ISBN: 978-0764984358
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Badger's Perfect Garden

Badger's Perfect Garden

Marsha Diane Arnold
Illustrator:  Ramona Kaulitzki 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Sleeping Bear Press, 2019   ISBN: 978-1534110007
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A Kite for Moon

A Kite for Moon

Jane Yolen , Heidi E.Y. Stemple
Illustrator:  Matt Phelan 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Zonderkidz, 2019   ISBN: 978-0310756422
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