Picture Book Review: When Little Owl Met Little Rabbit

When Little Owl Met Little Rabbit by Przemysław Wechterowicz

When Little Owl Met Little Rabbit
by Przemysław Wechterowicz, Emilia Dziubak (Illustrator)

5 of 5 stars

Little Owl is only awake during the night, and Little Rabbit is only awake during the day, so the two have never met. But they long to become friends, and one moonlit night they meet at last. Little Rabbit stays up late, and Little Owl gets up early, and they have a lovely time playing together. But they aren’t able to meet very often, and they wish on a shooting star that they could spend more time together.

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Picture Book Review: Our Incredible Library Book

Our Incredible Library Book [and the wonderful journeys it took] by Caroline Crowe, John Joseph...

Our Incredible Library Book [and the wonderful journeys it took]
by Caroline Crowe, John Joseph (Illustrated by)

5 of 5 stars

A library book takes a journey from reader to reader as different children check it out from the library. Some children read it when they are sick in bed. Some children spill their hot chocolate on it a little. The book gets wet from being splashed in the rain or in the bathtub. Children read it with their grandparents, parents, friends, and siblings. They even read it out loud to their pets. One child reads the book backwards! Through all of the different children who borrow the book, they share their love of reading.

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Picture Book Review: Too Many Rabbits

Too Many Rabbits by Davide Calì

Too Many Rabbits
by Davide Calì, Emanuele Benetti (Illustrator), Angus Yuen-Killick (Translator)

5 of 5 stars

What happens when you bring home a pet rabbit? It hops around and poops and chews on your furniture. What happens when you bring home TWO pet rabbits? They make a lot of little baby rabbits, until your house is overrun with hundreds of rabbits who hop around and poop everywhere!

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Book Review: The Story of Fred Rogers

The Story of Fred Rogers by Susan B. Katz

The Story of Fred Rogers: A Biography Book for New Readers
by Susan B. Katz (Goodreads Author)

5 out of 5 stars

I loved Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood tv show as a kid, and it is lovely to read more about Mr. Roger’s life and how he started his tv show for kids. He was a wonderful Christian, and it’s incredible to see how his faith in God inspired him to help children and teach them that God loves them.

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Four Picture Books from Candlewick Press

My First Pop-Up Endangered Animals by Owen Davey

My First Pop-Up Endangered Animals
by Owen Davey

5 out of 5 stars

We learn amazing facts about endangered animals in this colorful pop-up book. Each page features an animal that is in danger, and gives us a little bit of information about their habits. The blue whale is the largest mammal in the world! A tiger’s stripes are as special as a fingerprint. An okapi has a long tongue to grab leaves off tall trees. The kakapo parrot cannot fly. Galapagos penguins mate for life. The whale shark is the biggest fish in the sea!

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3 Picture Books from Albatross

Where Kids Go to School Around the World by Štěpánka Sekaninová

Where Kids Go to School Around the World (Kids Around the World)
by Štěpánka Sekaninová

3.5 out of 5 stars

In this book we learn about education all around the world. Children in different countries tell us about their school, their teachers, and what they learn each day. There is a floating school on a boat in Bangladesh, a school in a refugee camp, and English boarding school, and even a school in a hospital.
There are also religious schools for Buddhist monks and for Muslim girls.

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Three Book Reviews from Scallywag Press

Loud by Rose Robbins

Loud
by Rose Robbins

4 out of 5 stars

Abigail is having trouble behaving in class, so she gets sent to the “calming down room”. When she goes to music class, she doesn’t know how to play any of the instruments, so she has trouble behaving again. But instead of punishing her, the music teacher helps Abigail to find her true talent!

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Book Review: Encyclopedia of Ordinary Living

Encyclopedia of Ordinary Living by Štěpánka Sekaninová

Encyclopedia of Ordinary Living
by Štěpánka Sekaninová, Eva Chupíková

5 out of 5 stars

How did people live in ancient times? Where did they sleep and eat? How did they bathe and wash their clothes? How did they cook their food and furnish their homes? This book takes us from prehistoric times all the way up through the Ancient Egyptians, Greek and Roman Empires, and into the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Victorian era, and into the Modern Era.

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Book Review: Finding Fairies

Finding Fairies by Michelle Roehm McCann

Finding Fairies: Secrets for Attracting Magickal Folk
by Michelle Roehm McCann, Marianne Monson (Goodreads Author),David Hohn (Illustrator)

5 out of 5 stars

This book gives folk stories about fairies from all over the world. In each chapter we also get a recipe or craft we can make to hopefully entice the fairies to visit us. We can make a Japanese fan, a flower crown, or Chinese Cherry Dumplings. There also little gnomes and other creatures who live alongside the fairies. There are even games and music to play that come from all around the globe. You can go on a Djinn treasure hunt, make a leaf basket, or eat some Pixie Porridge.

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Children’s Activity Cards: Kind Kids

Kind Kids (Barefoot Books Activity Decks)

Kind Kids: 50 Activites for Compassion, Confidence & Community (Barefoot Books Activity Decks)

by Dr. Helen Maffini, Whitney Stewart
5 out of 5 stars

This deck of cards gives different activities for children to do to learn to be kind to themselves and to others. You can reach out to your family, your friends, and your whole community with small but meaningful gestures of love and compassion.

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