Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold written by Joyce Sidman is a lovely new picture book of poems suitable for grade K to grade 4. Although there are only a dozen poems included, they are very descriptive of animals surviving in the cold...
Author Archive for Katherine
Thursday, Mar 12, 2015
A book on the New Shelf that caught my eye is entitled Smick! and written by the author of many ridiculously funny picture books like Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Diary of a Worm , and Giggle, Giggle, Quack. This one is very short with only...
Thursday, Mar 12, 2015
Soon it will be April and I'll be pulling out my folder for my favorite rainy day stories in preparation for a library storytime or an outreach storytime at any one of a number of community preschools and day care sites. A new picture book is a...
Tuesday, Mar 3, 2015
In the past I've enjoyed David Elliott's books of short poems for young children ( On the Farm, In the Wild, and In the Sea) illustrated by Holly Meade. In his newest book, On the Wing, his poems are illustrated by first-time picture book artist,...
Friday, Feb 27, 2015
I love hats! I started wearing hats in my 20's when I was in college. I'm not talking about knitted wool hats, I'm talking fancy straw and felt hats that I would wear to complete my outfit. I still wear hats and am almost ashamed to admit...
Thursday, Feb 26, 2015
A new picture book biography by Patricia MacLachlan is special in every way. The reviews have been great and it's no wonder. The text is spare and suitable for K-3. I love how the author has made a book about a famous artist accessible for...
Tuesday, Sep 2, 2014
Two-time Coretta Scott King Award winning author, Sharon M. Draper, has written a stunning novel for upper-elementary school children that opens like this: "Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes--each one delicate and different,...
Monday, Aug 25, 2014
Twelve-year-old Willow Chase has had trouble fitting in her whole life because she is a genius, a person of color, unusual, and adopted. Her parents provide much love and support despite Willow's idiosyncrasies and mild obsessive compulsive...
Monday, Aug 18, 2014
Lois Ehlert has long been a favorite picture book author/illustrator of mine. Her books are perfect for storytimes with their large beautiful collage illustrations and short text. I've had the pleasure of meeting this Milwaukee children's book...
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2014
I wrote a Press Citizen article about new poetry books for children earlier this month in honor of National Poetry Month, but there is another title I want readers to know about on our New Book shelves in the Children's Room. Little Poems for...
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