The America’s Test Kitchen Quick Family Cookbook. Brookline, Massachusetts: America’s Test Kitchen, 2012. 464 pages. To me, “Quick Family Cookbook” is something of a redundancy. In our family, by definition anything we’re going to cook is going to be quick, … Continue reading
Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth, Book 1. New York: Harper, 2012. 124 pages. This is a fun chapter book for mystery-minded little ones, particularly little girls, and especially those who like the Fancy Nancy series. … Continue reading
Bethanie Deeney Murguia. Zoe Gets Ready. New York: Arthur A. Levien Books, 2012. 30 pages. This delightful picture big is an absolute joy to read with your little one–though, I’m guessing, substantially more joyful to read with a little girl … Continue reading
Arnold Lobel. Adventures of Frog and Toad. New York: Sandy Creek, 2010. 198 pages. This book is frickin awesome. There. I said it. Now I can tell you precisely how and why I like it so incredibly much. Adventures of … Continue reading
Eve Bunting. Frog and Friends: Best Summer Ever. Illustrated by Josee Masse. Ann Arbor: Sleeping Bear Press, 2012. 45 pages. Are frogs particularly gregarious animals? They seem to be the living embodiment of friendship in many kids books. There’s the … Continue reading
Adele Enersen. When My Baby Dreams. New York: Blazer and Bray, 2012. 46 pages. After Adele Enersen’s daughter Mila was born, Adele noticed that the baby slept a great deal. Adele, however, was so excited to be a mom that … Continue reading
Dan Yaccarino. All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 32 pages. Most picture books communicate simple concepts of family: a child or more, a mother … Continue reading
Antoinette Portis. Kindergarten Diary. New York: Harper, 2010. 27 pages. Every adult can remember the anxieties of starting a new job. What’s it going to be like? Will I make friends? Am I going to like it? But few of … Continue reading
Douglas Florian. UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings. New York: Beach Lane Books, 2012. 29 pages. Often, parents have to choose between picture books that engage their children’s curiosity and imagination and those that are scientifically accurate. With UNBEELIEVABLES, Douglas Florian … Continue reading
Anna Harwell Celenza, with Don Tate, Illustrator. Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite. Watertown, Massachusetts: Charlesbridge, 2011. 32 pages. In early 1960, Duke Ellington and his collaborator, arranger and composer Billy Strayhorn, decided to step out of the jazz mainstream and record … Continue reading
