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Posts Tagged ‘Beach Lane Books’
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
UnBEElievables: honeybee poems and paintings
by Douglas Florian (Beach Lane Books)
This volume contains poems that often burst with humor, puns, alliteration, and rhyme. Each poem is accompanied by a nugget of scientific fact and faces a page of bees with attitude, sometimes wearing fancy hats or jewelry. Many poems feature different bees, including queens, workers, scouts, and drones. Other poems focus on life cycles, pollination, the recent disappearance of bees, and beekeepers. We learn a lot, and with pleasure in the inventive language and simple, funny paintings with lots of green and gold, which are sometimes amid collage and rubber stamp work. Further reading is suggested at the end, along with a BEEbliography.
Tags: Beach Lane Books, bees, Douglas Florian, nature, poetry, science, Top of the Shelf, unBEElievables
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Baby Bear Sees Blue
by Ashley Wolff (Beach Lane Books)
The story follows a day through the happy-to-be-together Mama and child in an animated world: the sun speaks through a warm light, oak leaves wave. Baby Bear finds blue birds, red strawberries, orange butterflies, and who could choose a favorite color among these so beautifully done on linoleum block prints, hand colored with vivid watercolors? A thunderstorm makes them hurry home, then marvel at a rainbow. The cozy book begins with us peering into a dark, mysterious den, and ends with the “deep, soft black” Baby Bear sees when he closes his eyes, and a view of the night sky looking out from the den.
Tags: Ashley Wolff, Baby Bear Sees Blue, Beach Lane Books, bears, colors, mother, Top of the Shelf
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
STARS by Mary Lyn Ray, illustrated by Marla Frazee (Beach Lane Books, 2011)
Frazee’s energetic characters and striking pictures and Ray’s appealing text provides a new slant on the subject of stars. They address not only those in the sky but in other places as well (snowflakes, flowers and fireworks). After reading this delightful book, children will surely enjoy coming up with their own thoughts and ideas about stars on the ground and in the night sky.
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Tags: Beach Lane Books, marla frazee, Mary Lyn Ray, stars
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Stars by Mary Lyn Ray, pictures by Marla Frazee (Beach Lane Books, 2011)
This tall, blue-filled book offers brilliant views of sky marveled at by an array of children depicted with Marla Frazee’s usual attention to getting the right detail to show a variety of charmers. Delicately depicted themes include wishes, a sense of safety, changing moods, the star shapes we can find in flowers and snowflakes, and how what we can’t see remains. Text and pictures gently push us to look and wonder, perfect for bedtimes, when children can close their eyes and imagine great worlds beyond the roof.
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Tags: Beach Lane Books, bedtime, marla frazee, Mary Lyn Ray, picture book, stars
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Lois Ehlert (Beach Lane Books)
As they did in Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom, Martin and Ehlert combine their talents to provide children with another delightful tale that cries out to be read aloud. These 10 caterpillars are on the move: the first, crawling into a bower, the second, wriggling up a flower, the sixth, carried off to school, and the tenth, scaling an apple tree. Sumptuous illustrations describe their destinations with one, readers will discover, becoming a butterfly. An imaginative, lilting tale for those just learning to count and for those already accomplished — the rhyme, the rhythm, and the journeys will be a most entertaining trip. In addition, Ehlert cleverly winds a botany lesson into a pictorial narrative.
On shelves August 30, 2011.
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Lois Ehlert is this year’s Carle Honors Artist recipient! Click here to learn more about Lois Ehlert and The Carle Honors. Want more recommendations from The Carle Bookshop? Click here to read for Top of the Shelf book reviews.
Tags: Beach Lane Books, Bill Martin Jr., butterfly, caterpillars, counting, insects, Lois Ehlert, nature, read-aloud, rhyme, science, storytime, Ten Little Caterpillars
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Rrralph by Lois Ehlert (Beach Lane Books, 2011)
A dog that can talk? If you don’t believe it, just page through this book. Ralph, cleverly created out of bits and pieces of fabric and other odds and ends, will show you that, indeed, he knows a number of words. When on top of his doghouse, Ralph says — “Roof Roof”, and when next to a tree, he yelps “Bark Bark Bark.” Children will have fun with this book and will undoubtedly have their own ideas for expanding Ralph’s vocabulary. Bright colors and innovative use of actual materials make this a winner.
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Lois Ehlert is this year’s Carle Honors Artist recipient! Click here to learn more about Lois Ehlert and The Carle Honors. Want more recommendations from The Carle Bookshop? Click here to read for Top of the Shelf book reviews.
Tags: 2011, animal sounds, Beach Lane Books, collage, dogs, Lois Ehlert, picture books, recommendations, Rrralph
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