Kids

Outside Your Window - A first book of Nature

By Nicola Davies
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Sarah As
Oct 19, 2013

Love this author – love this illustrator – love this author and illustrator combo – love this book. That’s a lot of love, but if you read this book I think you’ll agree with me. I don’t remember how I came across the illustrator Mark Hearld, but my guess (and hope) is that we will be seeing and hearing a lot more from this talented British artist. His mixed media work reminds me of Eric Carle, but colorful and vibrant in a fresh new way.

Award-winning children’s author and biologist Nicola Davies provides the perfect poetry to go along with the artwork, to vividly present the abundance of our

Duck! Rabbit!

By Amy Krause Rosenthal
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Tricia S.
Oct 16, 2013

Duck! Rabbit! is a funny Easy Fiction story that challenges you to see images in a different way, similar to an optical illusion, it is a great way to involve everyone in the story.  A wonderful childrens' librarian once used American Sign Language signs for "duck" & "rabbit" which allows everyone to participate in the story and extends their experience.  This is one of my favorite books because it is fun, silly and a nice ongoing discussion about whether it is a duck or a rabbit.  While I have colleagues at the library that don't quite see it this way...from my perspective it is a duck :)

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

By Catherynne M. Valente
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by Josh N.
Apr 2, 2013

Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a wonderful, magical fairy-tale fantasy that is aimed at children but doesn't talk down to them—and is written in a way that will appeal to adults, too. It's a fantasy in the same vein as Alice in Wonderland, The Phantom Tollbooth, and L. Frank Baum's Oz books. In The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, 12-year-old September is whisked away from her home in Omaha, Nebraska by the Green Wind and taken to Fairyland on his steed, the Leopard of Little Breezes. September has a wondrous, mysterious