Loren Long

1 month ago | kirkusreviews.com | Loren Long |Laura Hughes

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.

Jun 25, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Loren Long |Pip Jones |Sara Ogilvie

A steady paean to time’s passing and the pleasures found along the way. Deftly invoking the anthropomorphized objects in books of old (as in the works of Virginia Lee Burton), Long introduces readers to a small town and the yellow bus that serves it. Using charcoal and graphite, the author/artist portrays a mostly black-and-white world; he relies on colorful acrylics to depict those who enter the bus (who's described with female pronouns), including children ferried to school.

Jan 16, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Beatrice Alemagna |Aaron Becker |Loren Long |Sara Lundberg

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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.