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Nov 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Tim McCanna |Camille Garoche |James Dean
Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Camille Garoche |Laura Hughes
A lively look at community, connections, and ways to foster change. Saturdays are a flurry of chores at Meena’s house. She and her sisters help her mother shop and tidy up to prep the house for a deluge of visitors. Meanwhile, her brother lounges in bed reading. Meena knows this is unfair, but her mother says that’s just the way things have always been since she was a little girl growing up. Meena’s family, the first to emigrate from their village in India, help others who come later.
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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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Aug 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Camille Garoche |Mo Willems
A stellar story of pals weathering ups and downs with aplomb. Opposites attract when Goat and Bunny strike up a friendship. When Goat discovers that he’s run out of his favorite canned grass, he heads to the supermarket to buy more and walks right into a meet-cute with Bunny, who also enjoys this delicacy. Though they have little else in common, they become fast friends. While both frequent the same coffee shop, Goat, who takes his coffee black, thinks Bunny adds too much sugar.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jennifer Maruno |Camille Garoche |Laura Hughes
Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sharon Draper |Camille Garoche
Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Samantha Cleaver |Camille Garoche |James Dean
Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom.
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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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May 7, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Camille Garoche |Laura Hughes
An utterly immersive celebration of the boundless joys of summer—may they never end!Newbery Honor–winning author Watson offers an ode to the pleasures of a summer day. Sun streams through an open window as a young Black child awakens.
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May 7, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Karen Kane |Camille Garoche |Laura Hughes
A thrilling tale of bravery, friendship, and the power of signing. Two friends use American Sign Language to ward off a monster. After reading a frightening story, Milo worries that there’s a monster under his bed. Luckily, Milo’s best friend Mel’s bedroom window faces his, and both children use ASL to communicate. Mel helps Milo use “monster hands”—fingers spread and bent into claws—to cast shadows on the wall that will scare away anything lurking beneath the bed.
