Sara Ogilvie

Sep 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Mary Ray |Pip Jones |Sara Ogilvie |Owen Hart

Rock appreciation is bound to start early thanks to this surprisingly emotional guide. Stones and pebbles have plenty to teach us. Ray hands out life advice using the framework of observing and caring for rocks. After all, “it’s hard to ignore a rock.” This observation is true whether they’re the big ones that invite you to climb upon them or the small ones you stuff in your pockets. You can do lots of things with rocks, from stacking them to lining them up.

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.

Apr 5, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Catherine Rayner |Pip Jones |Sara Ogilvie |Carin Bramsen

It takes no guesswork to understand just how endearing this friendship truly is. The protagonists of Molly, Olive, and Dexter Play Hide-and-Seek (2023) take part in the “loveliest game in the world.”Molly the hare, Olive the owl, and Dexter the fox are good friends, but it’s Olive who’s fondest of guessing games. She entices her friends to play “GUESS WHAT?” Gazing skyward, Dexter begins by asking the other two what he’s thinking about. Molly immediately figures out that he’s thinking of the sky.

Mar 19, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Karma Wilson |Jane Chapman |Pip Jones |Sara Ogilvie

In his latest outing, Bear and his pals go in search of eggs. Bear “lumbers with his friends through the Strawberry Vale.” Raven finds a nest; climbing up, “The bear finds eggs!”: a refrain that appears throughout. Instead of eating the robin’s eggs, however, Bear leaves a gift of dried berries in the nest for the “soon-to-be-chicks.” Next, the friends find 10 mallard eggs (as bright blue as the robin’s), and Bear leaves sunflower seeds.