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Birdie’s Playhouse gives animals an exciting Latin flair in her newest album.
The combination of witty text, plentiful white space, and brilliant images make this a truly winning book, especially for libraries looking to expand their Easter collections.
Narrated by actor Liev Schreiber, this extensive and highly entertaining retrospective chronologically reviews the history of 20th-century superheroes utilizing an amazingly rich collection of archival and contemporary media of all types.
The whimsical story is accompanied by striking oil paintings. The two fish are portrayed in fluid orange and gold brushstrokes, while the bowl is a luminous sphere reflecting different colors from page to page.
If Brent Runyon’s The Burn Journals (Knopf, 2004) and Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Pocket Books, 1999) could be melded into a single work, it might be this one.
Differentiated, African-inspired chapter introduction music assists in delivering this parallel story of two very different, but equally difficult, lives in Sudan.
Feedback this month ranges from the defense of librarians who embrace technology to support for Isabel Allende's novel The House of the Spirits, which is still being challenged by parents in a North Carolina school district.
This is a fresh addition to the standard new sibling fare, and young naturalists will identify with Maple’s adventurous and tender spirit.
Director Brad Bernstein’s homage to a groundbreaking, internationally recognized author/illustrator (Moon Man) is a tour de force, with cinematography as playful, creative, and subversive as its protagonist.
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