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Louisiana's Way Home
Children’s early and middle readers
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Louisiana’s Way Home

Louisiana’s way home is longer than she thinks. Kate DiCamillo’s character Louisana Elefante is not new to her many fans who have read Raymie Nightingale

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Just Because
Children’s picture books
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Just Because

JUST BECAUSE How many of us who have children in our lives remember people telling us, “Enjoy them while you can because they grow up

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Children’s picture books
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Crouching Tiger and dragons, too.

CROUCHING TIGER AND DRAGONS Just in time for Chinese New Year 2012, the Year of the Dragon, is Ying Chang Compestine’s newest picture book, Crouching

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Children’s early and middle readers
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Du Iz Tak?

DU IZ TAK? If I were still selling books at a brick and mortar, Carson Ellis’s Du Iz Tak? would be flying off the shelf.

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Zora & Me
Authors of color
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Zora & Me, The Cursed Ground

ZORA & ME, THE CURSED GROUND, the power of childhood memories to raise a forgotten writer back to a deserved literary recognition. When Candlewick Press

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Freedom Soup
Children’s early and middle readers
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Freedom Soup

FREEDOM SOUP Just in time for New Year’s Day celebration is another great picture book from Candlewick Press. Freedom Soup is proof that the publishing

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The Magician's Elephant
Animal stories
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The Magician’s Elephant

The Magician’s Elephant, another DiCamillo gem. Oh, what a pleasure to recommend a new Kate DiCamillo book. Don’t be fooled by it’s being targeted to

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Will You Be My Friend
Children’s early and middle readers
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Will You Be My Friend

WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND Back in 1994, Irish writer Sam McBratney, and British illustrator Anita Jeram, published the picture book, Guess How Much I

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This 'N That
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The Girl on the Road

The Girl on the Road No, this is not a review of Monica Byrne’s fabulous The Girl in the Road (I’m working on that very

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Animal stories
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Ten Horse Farm

TEN HORSE FARM Pop-up books are so darned much fun it is hard not to love them. Robert Sabuda, the uncrowned king of pop-ups, has

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GREAT JOY
Children’s picture books
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Great Joy

Great Joy, a Christmas picture book by Kate DiCamillo, really is a great joy, and between DiCamillo’s words and Bagram Ibatoulline’s illustrations, it deserves to

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Children’s early and middle readers
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Flora & Ulysses, a truly squirrelly novel

Flora & Ulysses, The Illuminated Adventures Having recently finished reading children’s author Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Medal winning Flora & Ulysses, I’m going to go out

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Children’s early and middle readers
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Good Rosie!

GOOD ROSIE! As a book reviewer, I have no favorite genre; if a book is well-written, I will unabashedly tout its merit. In the case

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Too Small Tola
Authors of color
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Too Small Tola

Too Small Tola shares something with children worldwide. Too Small Tola, by Atinuke, is close to the perfect storybook for early readers. One thing children

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Children’s picture books
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Georghia Ellinas proves we are never too young or too old for Shakespeare. Okay, dear readers, here’s a one-of-a-kind, wild recommendation:

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