Today marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts in the United States. A couple of books have just been published to honor the occasion and celebrate the life of founder, Juliette Gordon Low. One book is the picture book...
Author Archive for Katherine
Monday, Mar 12, 2012
Rand Burkert has created a new retelling of the famous Aesop fable, along with his mother, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, who contributed the exquisite artwork for this beautiful picture book set in Africa near the Botswana and Naminia borders. Here lions...
Thursday, Mar 1, 2012
In this picture book biography, Patrick McDonnell tells the story of a little girl, Jane Goodall, who loves to be outside in nature, playing with her stuffed chimpanzee, Jubilee. She enjoys climbing trees, watching the miracle of chicken eggs...
Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012
Salley Mavor has created a fabulous new collection of 65 Mother Goose rhymes with Pocketful of Posies. What makes this volume of nursery rhymes so special is the incredible fabric art creations made by Mavor and then photographed for the book. ...
Monday, Feb 27, 2012
One of my favorite books published in 2011 is this picture book written in senryu (a form of Japanese poetry with seventeen syllables focusing on the foibles of human nature--or in this case, cat nature) by Lee Wardlaw. The story of a shelter...
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012
The 2012 Caldecott Medal winner is A Ball for Daisy illustrated by Chris Raschka who won this prestigious award back in 2006 for The Hello, Goodbye Window written by Norton Juster. The Caldecott Medal is awarded to the illustrator of the best...
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