Tish Rabe

Jul 8, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Tish Rabe |Laura Hughes |Lauren Eldridge

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 18, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Taraji P. Henson |Tish Rabe |Laura Hughes |Christina Geist

A solid choice for starting discussions on bullying, friendship, and kindness. In actor and mental health advocate Henson’s debut picture book, a young girl facing troubles at school takes her grandma’s advice. Lil TJ can’t wait to start school and make new friends. She has her own unique style, and she lets it shine on her first day. She participates eagerly, but at recess, a boy named Beau gives her a hard time.

Mar 12, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Alexandra Penfold |Suzanne Kaufman |Camille Garoche |Tish Rabe

Sentimental parents and fans of the earlier book will be charmed. Penfold and Kaufman return to the community introduced in All Are Welcome (2018), this time celebrating a child’s birth and growth. The focus is on community from the very start—neighbors gather to see the latest arrival, a child with a sprout of dark hair, soon to be seen sporting glasses and a gap-toothed grin.

Feb 6, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Todd |Tish Rabe |Laura Hughes

As he did with his nonfiction work for adults, Relationship Goals (2020), Christian megachurch pastor Todd shows young readers how developing a close bond with God can strengthen relationships with family and friends. A mother encourages her daughter to talk to Jesus the same way she would to a best friend. Mom goes on to tell her daughter about relationship goals. Jesus should be first on her list of goals.

May 30, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Aisha Saeed |Tish Rabe |Christina Geist |Tim Bowers

by Aisha Saeed ; illustrated by LeUyen Pham ‧ When Rumi moves to a brand-new coast, friendship feels hard to find. Although he is assigned the best seat in the room—right next to the class pets—brown-skinned Rumi still feels unwelcome and out of place in his new school. At recess, instead of playing with his diverse classmates, he sits beneath a willow tree in the schoolyard, dreaming of the cypress trees he loved back home in San Francisco.