Fri, January 7th, 2011
Mirror by Jeannie Baker
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: I’m feeling a little frantic about getting some of my top picks for the year blogged before THE big youth award announcements. Cindy and I didn’t do lists of our top picture books this year but if we had Mirror (Candlewick, Nov. 2010) would have been on mine! This is a stunningly designed and [...]
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Fri, September 17th, 2010
Spork by Kyo Maclear
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: I have a new appreciation for the spork. You know, that plastic combo spoon/fork that is usually seen in fast food restaurants or school cafeterias where the clientèle can’t be trusted with a real fork? Well, count me in as a new fan. In Spork (Kids Can Press, 2010) multicultural literature gets an innovative [...]
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