Christian Robinson

Jul 26, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Maya Tatsukawa |Camille Garoche |Amanda Gorman |Christian Robinson

A sensitive, funny, yet deeply thoughtful exploration of difficult feelings. A mole struggles with social anxiety. “Should I actually go this time?” asks shy Mole upon receiving an invitation to Rabbit’s Moon Harvest Party. Mole tries different tactics in an attempt to feel brave: envisioning a positive outcome, preparing a sweet treat to delight the other guests, and even bargaining.

Jul 25, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Jack Wong |Loren Long |Amanda Gorman |Christian Robinson

From the Otis series Continuing to find inspiration in the work of Virginia Lee Burton, Munro Leaf and other illustrators of the past, Long (The Little Engine That Could, 2005) offers an aw-shucks friendship tale that features a small but hardworking tractor (“putt puff puttedy chuff”) with a Little Toot–style face and a big-eared young descendant of Ferdinand the bull who gets stuck in deep, gooey mud.

Jun 8, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Amanda Gorman |Christian Robinson |Laura Hughes

ON THE FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN by Tish Rabe ; illustrated by Laura Hughes ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2016 While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of... Rabe follows a young girl through her first 12 days of kindergarten in this book based on the familiar Christmas carol.