Children is the broader term for infants, toddlers and tweens. These posts are about children of all ages.
We love children’s books that effectively tell a story through absurd means. Giraffes Ruin Everything was one recently that had the giraffe playing part of the child who was having a bad day or couldn’t do something well. Snow Beast Comes to Play by Phil Gosier picks up that mantle in this winter themed book that teaches lessons that every kid needs to learn.
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Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas is a picture book that’s geared at elementary school students. It’s also geared to brothers or sisters who have a younger sibling that is always climbing things. Sadie is a 3 or 4 year old girl that loves climbing, songs and eating. The book is told from the perspective of her older brother, who is around 9 and really looking forward to making and eating dosas.
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What’s a Moko-Maki? It’s perhaps simpler to explain what is kawaii. Kawaii is one of the under currents of Japanese culture. At its simplest kawaii is cute, but it has sub-genres that break it out to those beyond a normal adjective. Kawaii can also mean cute, with a very creative and fun bent. That is the angle that Moko-Maki by Satu Kontinen pursues and nails the definition of kawaii to the floor.
Continue reading Moko-Maki is a graphic design/kawaii, find-it book for pre-k and up
Somewhere in the maelstrom of author Jo Nesbo’s mind was a Christmas story unlike any other. The result is Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder, Silent (But Deadly) Night, a book that even by its title, lets you in on the fact that it’s not traditional and clearly aimed at middle grade kids who like fart jokes. However, once you start reading the book you realize that it goes much deeper, touching on the commercialization of Christmas, the story of a retired Santa Claus, family memories and more. It does this while mixing in incredibly silly elements like a taxidermy giraffe head on the front of a flying car, copyright law and of course, fart powder.
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Kids love ninjas. That explains why some kids are fans of the Ninja! book series by Arree Chung. They’re picture books that ages 7 and younger will enjoy. Ninja Claus! is the third entry in the series and is heavy on pictures, action and humor, while being light on words. This is the kind of children’s book that kids will read in their head (aka: to themselves), while imagining the ninja moves and traps that young Maxwell does in trying to capture Santa.
Continue reading Ninja Claus! Could use more ninja and Claus, but kids love it
When is a book whose main protagonist is a turkey not a Thanksgiving book? Zack and the Turkey Attack! isn’t about a turkey taking wrath by increased Tryptophan. This is the fun story about Zack, his friends, grandparents, making crazy inventions in the barn and a turkey who doesn’t like children. In reality, Zack and the Turkey Attack! has more in common with a farm centric Goonies-with a side of STEM, than a tale about Thanksgiving, despite the turkey in the title.
Continue reading Zack and the Turkey Attack!, an elementary book assault they’ll welcome
When the leaves start to fall I do it too. When I was hiking in the mountains the other week I found myself casually talking to the leaves on the ground, scattering chipmunks or twisted trees. The premise behind Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by author/illustrator Kenard Pak is that when children speak to the things in nature they reply back to them. It’s a simple, daydream mentality that every kid through first grade does.
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Wow. I know that Grand Canyon by Jason Chin is a book intended for children, but I can’t stop looking at it. This is part science book, ecological text book for elementary through early middle school and self paced reading for kids who want to discover a place that seems magical, but is real. Grand Canyon manages to do that in a way that respectful and approachable to children, describing complex natural happenings in a way that they’ll understand and want to learn more about.
Continue reading Grand Canyon by Jason Chin, a book as great and big as its topic
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