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I catalog hundreds of new picture books each year, and I read as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, I can’t review them all. But I can share them! Below are a few recent titles. (Summaries have been taken directly from the books whenever possible.) Check your local library or bookstore for availability.

Donkey tries to convince the farmer that all the other animals have left the farm, but the farmer doesn’t believe him.

Flowers can resemble other things, like birds, ballerinas, and monkeys...

My View Book Review: If I Could Climb Trees by Jeff Minich

 

Title: If I Could Climb Trees

Author: Jeff Minich

Illustrator: Renan Garcia

Publisher/Year: Nuggies Inc./2017

Coco the puppy is back and ready for fun in volume 5 of the Nuggies picture book series by author Jeff Minich and illustrator Renan Garcia. Coco dreams of climbing trees. She wants a birds-eye view of the world. She imagines the amazing things she might see, a vast ocean with a sandy beach or snow-capped mountain peaks. Coco wants to leap from branch to branch like the squirrels a...

Picture Book Personals (37)

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I catalog hundreds of new picture books each year, and I read as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, I can’t review them all. But I can share them! Below are a few recent titles. (Summaries have been taken directly from the books whenever possible.) Check your local library or bookstore for availability.

Little Shaggy, a fuzzy monster, is tired of everyone calling him little until his mother brings home his new baby sister.

Pandora lives alone in a world of broken things. One day, something...

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Happy Book Birthday to WHAT CAN YOUR GRANDMA DO? by Anne Sawan

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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TITLE: What Can Your Grandma Do? AUTHOR: Anne Sawan ILLUSTRATOR: Sernur Isik PUBLISHER: Clavis Publishing RELEASE DATE: May 16, 2017 FORMAT: Hardcover SUMMARY: Next week there’s a talent show for grandparents at school. Some grandmas are excellent cooks, one grandpa is a painter, others are very good dancers. But Jeremy’s grandma doesn’t have any special talent. Or does she? AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: Five More Minutes 

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I catalog hundreds of new picture books each year, and I read as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, I can’t review them all. But I can share them! Below are a few recent titles. (Summaries have been taken directly from the books whenever possible.) Check your local library or bookstore for availability.

Poppy Louise is not afraid of snakes, spiders, roller coasters, or the dark, but there may just be one thing that scares her.

When his new born sister is not what he expected, a boy struggl...

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I catalog hundreds of new picture books each year, and I read as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, I can’t review them all. But I can share them! Below are a few recent titles. (Summaries have been taken directly from the books whenever possible.) Check your local library or bookstore for availability.

Mr. Brown has a hat for every occasion, and today he needs them all.

If you’re having trouble getting your monster to go to bed, follow the instructions in this handy guide book.

A builder...

Interview Alert: Me

I have interviewed many authors and illustrators over the past eight years for my Interview Alert feature here on Frog on a Blog. Most recently, I posed questions to author and artist Abraham Schroeder, who didn’t disappoint with his candid and detailed responses.

Today, Abraham has turned the tables on me, becoming the interviewer, and I, the interviewee. But instead of appearing on his site, the interview is right here. I have to admit, I’m a bit more comfortable asking the questions than a...