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1 week ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Laura Hughes |Drew Daywalt |Oliver Jeffers
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. The typical firsts of school are here: riding the bus, making friends, sliding on the playground slide, counting, sorting shapes, laughing at lunch, painting, singing, reading, running, jumping rope, and going on a field trip.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
hartselleenquirer.com | Drew Daywalt
“Mortimer’s Christmas Manger” By Karma Wilson Illustrated by Jane Chapman Mortimer is a mouse that lives in a creepy, cramped, cold hole. He finds a new home set up on a tabletop. Mortimer scurries up the tree in order to reach the tall table that holds this home. Mortimer finds people statues and a bed that is full of hay and very cozy and feels just right. Mortimer kicks the statues out and moves in. Every day Mortimer traces over the house looking for crumbs.
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May 29, 2024 | 
bookweb.org | Cherry Mo |Drew Daywalt |Akiko Miyakoshi
May 29 2024 July/August 2024 Kids’ Indie Next List Preview Printer-friendly versionHere is a preview of the titles on the July/August 2024 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing. The July/August title list is also viewable as a collection in Edelweiss. The tri-fold, four-color flier features the top 10 children’s titles for July/August and additional titles organized by age group.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Drew Daywalt |Mike Lowery |Katherine Applegate |Patricia Castelao
A dog who sees the world through his own unique lens battles evil forces to protect his newfound family—and inadvertently succeeds. In a “Dear Diary” format, Sam the pug relates his adventures over the course of 20 eventful days, during which he runs away from “naked-monkey-thing” owner Mike, ends up at the shelter, and gets adopted by the Peterson family, who have a 12-year-old son named Justin.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
spiritualityandpractice.com | Drew Daywalt |Oliver Jeffers
We have been fans of the Crayons series by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers since 2013, when The Day the Crayons Quit — a #1 New York Times bestseller — brought us an entertaining palette of grievances. Since then, this dynamic author-illustrator team has created The Day the Crayons Came Home, The Crayons' Book of Feelings, Love from the Crayons, seasonal Crayons books, and more.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Drew Daywalt |Alex Willmore |Jimmy Fallon |Miguel Ordóñez
A bookmark accompanies readers through a book as the sounds that the creatures and things within make become increasingly bizarre. First, an apple goes “crunch” when you eat it. Sure. Then a flower says, “CHUGGA CHUGGA CHOO CHOO!!!!” What? And then a bicycle—or wait, isn’t that a puppy?—belches. Huh.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rebecca Gardyn Levington |Noa Kelner |Eric Carle |Drew Daywalt
Safe to creep on by. In three sentences that stretch out over most of the book’s 32 pages, the (here, at least) not-so-ravenous larva first describes the object of its love, then describes how that loved one makes it feel before concluding, “That’s why… / I[heart]U.” There is little original in either visual or textual content, much of it mined from The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Drew Daywalt |Oliver Jeffers |Jimmy Fallon |Miguel Ordóñez
Plotless and pointless, the book clearly exists only because its celebrity author wrote it. A succession of animal dads do their best to teach their young to say “Dada” in this picture-book vehicle for Fallon. A grumpy bull says, “DADA!”; his calf moos back. A sad-looking ram insists, “DADA!”; his lamb baas back. A duck, a bee, a dog, a rabbit, a cat, a mouse, a donkey, a pig, a frog, a rooster, and a horse all fail similarly, spread by spread.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Eric Carle |Drew Daywalt |Oliver Jeffers
A story starring a funny and argumentative bunny that makes for a read-aloud gigglefest. Despite clues to the contrary, this little white rabbit insists that he is not the Easter Bunny. White fur and cottontail, cute bow tie and vest, and a basket of painted eggs: Must be the Easter Bunny! But this determined rabbit refuses to admit that he’s the famous holiday hopper.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kevin Jonas |Danielle Jonas |Courtney Dawson |Drew Daywalt
With humor, heart, and oodles of child appeal, this tale models a flawed but devoted parent’s mastery of love languages. When a young girl seems unable to get her father’s attention, a simple question brings it back. Dad chats with a friend at the supermarket, talks on the phone while cooking, and texts while the young protagonist dons pajamas.
