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Posts Tagged ‘Roaring Brook Press’
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Bear Has a Story to Tell
by Phillip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead (Roaring Brook Press)
This big-bellied bear with fur that’s many shades of brown won me over from the first two pages. He is sleepy, but sets out, for he has a story to tell. This desire leads him to Mouse, who has seeds to gather. Duck is getting ready to fly south. Frog must find a warm place to sleep, and Mole is already sleeping. Bear helps them all, before watching snow fall in a sky painted in marvelous shades of blue, green, and violet. He sleeps, then rolls around to celebrate spring and his chance to tell his story to friends who seem even closer after their time apart. Readers will learn about friendship and the cycles of seasons, in a book whose last page sends them back to the first.
Tags: animals, Bear Has a Story to Tell, bears, Erin E. Stead, hibernation, Phillip C. Stead, picture books, Roaring Brook Press, Storytelling
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Mr. Prickles: A Quill-Fated Love Story by Kara LaReau, illustrated by Scott Magoon (A Neal Porter Book/Roaring Brook Press, 2012)
As Mr. Prickles tries to find a friend, a raccoon, a chipmunk, and skunk, tell him that he’s not cute, cuddly, and playful, like them. Mr. Prickles believes he is adorable on the inside, but as he’s kept from joining in, he does feel prickly on the inside, too. Fortunately he meets Miss Pointypants, who understands him, plays with him, eats with him, and shows him that “porcupines do hug, very carefully.” This is a quick book to read, filled with love, humor, a bit of prickliness, wordplay, and food for thought. Pick up a copy of Mr. Prickles.
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Tags: feelings, friends, Kara LaReau, love, Mr. Prickles: A Quill-Fated Love Story, Neal Porter Book, picture books, porcupines, Roaring Brook Press, Scott Magoon
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
and then it’s spring by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin E. Stead (Roaring Brook Press, 2012)
The colors in the letters of the title move from brown to green, and it’s not too much of a surprise that the book’s general colors follow likewise. Like the little boy, dog, and turtle at the center of the book, readers have to wait through a lot of brown ground to see more colors. But Erin Stead’s woodblock and pencil illustrations always convey warmth, and the robin’s egg blue back pages are sometimes seen in the varied sky. The boy who begins bundled up in hat, muffler, and mittens ends up barefoot and swinging from a tire over grass and the beginnings of flowers and vegetables he planted, with a delight we feel he well deserves. A perfect book for those of us who wait and watch for winter’s end!
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Tags: and then it's spring, Brown, Erin E. Stead, gardening, green, Julie Fogliano, picture books, Roaring Brook Press, spring, woodblock illustrations
Posted in Books Ages 3-6, Recommended Books, Top of the Shelf | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press, 2011)
Here we get a lot of green and white and a sense of how memories link generations. The grandfather’s story is told by his busy, imaginative, and plant-loving grandson. Rabbits, birds, flying pigs, and trees have starring roles, though all eclipsed by pruned bushes. The bent is toward happiness, which is the way Grandfather remembers: a wedding and marriage get twice as much space as the war in which he fought. Pages fold out at the end to give us four pages offering the idea that a garden may remember more than any person can.
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Tags: family, garden, grandfather, Grandpa Green, grandson, green, history, lane smith, Roaring Brook Press
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