CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Cheery, brightly colored, cartoon-style illustrations reiterate the text, which, while a touch didactic, laudably expands on the typically monocultural depictions of families in picture books. (Picture book. 3-6)"
Benjamin and Chamberlain's picture book is squarely focused on family diversity as it tells the story of a biracial boy and his musical family in a companion to their earlier collaboration,
My Two Grannies (2008).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
"A refreshing take on the need to follow one's own heart--or feet. (Picture book. 4-8)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Dec. 1, 2010
"The epilogue has an unexpected, romantic twist—heroic, adventurous, idealized—that bodes well for a sequel. (Picture book. 6-9)"
A mermaid is born with two tails, and a boy is born with webbed fingers in this lengthy original fairy tale.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: July 1, 2010
"His lack of self-understanding adds another thought-provoking element to a tale identified (by the author, at least—others have different ideas) as Taoist. (afterword) (Picture book/folktale. 6-8)"
Daly gives her version of the oft-retold "Stonecutter" a contemporary setting—dressing small figures in modern clothes and placing them as often as not against urban backdrops.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
Wing, the author of mass audience favorites (The Night Before the Tooth Fairy, 2003, etc.), takes an aesthetic leap forward in this sophisticated and engaging account of an artist and color theorist whose name is unknown to most young people.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"Still, there's plenty here to have young aesthetes hankering for a plane ticket to Spain. (author's note, websites, selected bibliography) (Picture book/biography. 5-9)"
Swarms of visitors each year descend upon Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí's weird, wonderful church, La Sagrada Familia, under construction in Barcelona since 1883.
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