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BUBBLE TROUBLE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Mahy
Author's First Name: 
Margaret
Illustrator's First Name: 
Polly
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Dunbar
Publisher: 
Clarion
Publication Date: 
2009

Exuberant illustrations help to tell a rollicking, read-it-aloud, tongue-twister of a tale as a cheerful baby floats joyfully above the town, safely surrounded by the bubble big sister Mabel blew.  

 

OTIS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Long
Author's First Name: 
Loren
Publisher: 
Philomel
Publication Date: 
2009

With a plot and illustrations reminiscent of the best classic picture books, the readers will be drawn into this story by the gentle "putt puff puttedy chuff" of Otis the tractor and won't want to be pulled back out at the end.

 

SAME SAME

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Jocelyn
Author's First Name: 
Marthe
Illustrator's First Name: 
Tom
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Slaughter
Publisher: 
Tundra
Publication Date: 
2009
Cheerful cut paper compositions create sets of things—a round earth, apple, and tambourine—but a turn of the page shows one thing from each set joining a new group: tambourines, birds and guitars all make music! A clear and clever introduction to a complex concept.

 

MY PEOPLE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Hughes
Author's First Name: 
Langston
Illustrator's First Name: 
Charles R.
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Smith Jr.
Publisher: 
Ginee Seo
Publication Date: 
2009

Sepia-toned close-up photographs of faces—young and old, radiant and wistful, dark-skinned and light—accompany Hughes' classic poem, a spirited celebration of his people.

 

HOUNDSLEY AND CATINA: PLINK AND PLUNK

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Howe
Author's First Name: 
James
Illustrator's First Name: 
Marie-Louise
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Gay
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2009

Support and friendship play key roles in three quiet stories for beginning readers. The pencil and watercolor illustrations lend to the playfulness of Houndsley and Catina as they discover new activities.

 

LITTLE CHICK

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Hest
Author's First Name: 
Amy
Illustrator's First Name: 
Anita
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Jeram
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2009
Three vignettes highlight the intergenerational relationship of Old Auntie as she encourages Little Chick to be patient. Lush illustrations capture the character of a doting aunt and a young child.

 

BIRDS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Henkes
Author's First Name: 
Kevin
Illustrator's First Name: 
Laura
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Dronzek
Publisher: 
Greenwillow
Publication Date: 
2009

Somewhere between meditation and observation, a series of almost-poems about birds is limned in thick outlines and brilliant color.

 

PRINCESS HYACINTH: THE SURPRISING TALE OF A GIRL WHO FLOATED

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Heide
Author's First Name: 
Florence Parry
Illustrator's First Name: 
Lane
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Smith
Publisher: 
Schwartz & Wade
Publication Date: 
2009
If not copiously weighed down, this little princess will float away! And then what? Author and illustrator beautifully juxtapose “down-to-earth” scenes with sweeping open skies in this buoyant tale.

 

THE ODD EGG

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Gravett
Author's First Name: 
Emily
Publisher: 
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 
2009
Duck waited and waited and waited for the egg he found to hatch.  When it did, with a CREAK and a CRACK, he and his bird friends were in for a BIG surprise.

 

SPELLS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Gravett
Author's First Name: 
Emily
Publisher: 
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 
2009

Once upon a time there was a handsome frog…um prince…um frog. "Hoakcus Croakus" which one is it? Split pages and sly visual asides add to the fun of this non-fairytale with a surprise ending.

 

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