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Jan 22, 2025 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lucy Cousins |Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry |Christopher Neal
Fairy-tale fun, especially ideal for the author’s many devotees. Three familiar stories get repackaged in this new edition of Cousins’ favorites.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lawrence Schimel |Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry |William Boniface
Little Blue’s fans will enjoy the animal sounds and counting opportunities, but it’s the sparkling lights on the truck’s own... The sturdy Little Blue Truck is back for his third adventure, this time delivering Christmas trees to his band of animal pals. The truck is decked out for the season with a Christmas wreath that suggests a nose between headlights acting as eyeballs. Little Blue loads up with trees at Toad’s Trees, where five trees are marked with numbered tags.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry |Camille Garoche
Read it out loud with glee. It isn’t easy to create a Yuletide tale that stands out on the crowded holiday shelf, but Wilson has done just that by riffing on lyrics from “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Her illustrations are detailed and expressive, like a mashup of Marla Frazee and Vera Brosgol, with a dash of Barbara McClintock for good measure.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Stephanie Laberis |Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry
Little Blue’s fans will enjoy the animal sounds and counting opportunities, but it’s the sparkling lights on the truck’s own... The sturdy Little Blue Truck is back for his third adventure, this time delivering Christmas trees to his band of animal pals. The truck is decked out for the season with a Christmas wreath that suggests a nose between headlights acting as eyeballs. Little Blue loads up with trees at Toad’s Trees, where five trees are marked with numbered tags.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alice Hemming |Nicola Slater |Camille Garoche |Alice Schertle
May this endearing pair have more sneakily educational outings. The ground is all white and cold, and Squirrel has no idea why. Awakening to find the grass is gone, Squirrel panics and calls for Bird. Ever patient Bird explains that sometimes it snows in winter, and the grass just gets covered. Bird suggests they play in the snow, but Squirrel says it’s too cold…until Bird introduces Squirrel to snowballs. Suddenly, Squirrel loves snow. Bird also explains that snowflakes are all different shapes.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry
Little Blue’s fans will enjoy the animal sounds and counting opportunities, but it’s the sparkling lights on the truck’s own... The sturdy Little Blue Truck is back for his third adventure, this time delivering Christmas trees to his band of animal pals. The truck is decked out for the season with a Christmas wreath that suggests a nose between headlights acting as eyeballs. Little Blue loads up with trees at Toad’s Trees, where five trees are marked with numbered tags.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kate Hosford |Sarah Gonzales |Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry
A golden-hued love song, both for treasured children and for the outdoors. A parent and a child explore the world, with their love at the center of it. “Fly right over here to me,” the parent proclaims; “You’ll always be my chickadee.” The loving parent embraces the little one, whose arms are spread wide as a chickadee soars in the sunny background. Lilting rhyme and bright images showcase moments of wonder, discovery, delight, curiosity, and, above all, love as the two move through their day.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Maurice Sendak |Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry |Christopher Neal
As a counting book, fun. As a new Sendak book, by its mere existence, notable. A posthumously published tale of overly prolific bunnies from a master of the picture-book form. A young magician bows before readers and releases a rabbit from his hat. More and more rabbits appear. As the book counts from one rabbit to 10, the boy becomes increasingly frustrated with the sheer number of bunnies appearing from his headwear.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
insideottawavalley.com | Glenn Perrett |Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry |Kevin Sands
By Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurryClarion Books, 2023, 2 board books ISBN: 9780063314399The “Little Blue Truck Gift Set” includes two board books about the popular Little Blue Truck – “Little Blue Truck” (29 pages) and “Little Blue Truck Leads the Way” (37 pages). Young children will enjoy the rhyming text and good illustrations. In “Little Blue Truck,” animals and Little Blue Truck help a dump truck that gets stuck in the mud.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
simcoe.com | Glenn Perrett |Alice Schertle |Jill McElmurry |Kevin Sands
By Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurryClarion Books, 2023, 2 board books ISBN: 9780063314399The “Little Blue Truck Gift Set” includes two board books about the popular Little Blue Truck – “Little Blue Truck” (29 pages) and “Little Blue Truck Leads the Way” (37 pages). Young children will enjoy the rhyming text and good illustrations. In “Little Blue Truck,” animals and Little Blue Truck help a dump truck that gets stuck in the mud.
