This is an alphabet books that uses letters to teach and illustrate yoga poses.  This book is alright, but it has been done better. 

 

Explaining all the different types of families and their structures sounds like a big job, but this book managed to do a pretty good job with just 26 letters.  Each letter has a word attached and on the facing page they explain what that word means in terms of family.  It is really well done.  One of my favorite things is when the book talks about Hugs and Kisses and that it’s okay to say No Thank You.

 

 

OMG - the ending just about had me in tears.  Gram and Lily are going for a long car ride.  Lily is going to live with Gram.  We don’t know why, it’s never mentioned.  Gram’s makes a game of finding 10 beautiful things.  As a way to take Lily’s mind of whatever it is on and make her feel more safe and secure.  This book should be a staple in libraries, and in child resource centers, or anyplace that needs to place a child with their grandparent.  I spend quite a bit of time living with my grams in between base transfers, so maybe I feel this book more than other will, but I don’t care.  I loved this story.

 

 I wish this had rhymed or something.  The animals pointed out were nice and the illustrations were quite well done, but the book had no flow for a counting book. 

 First off, this book shows a beach in winter.  Yes beaches can be cold.  They are not all hot sand and swimsuits.  Besides that this book is uni que because the story is told in single words that hitch rides with each other. It’s a step above a wordless picture book.  The words interpret the picture instead of the other way around.  And I also love that all the words start with the letter S.  Check it out.  It’s a unique read that would be very fun for reading aloud. 

 This was simply lovely.  It’s an immigrant story of a child who can’t wait to make new friends in her new county but a snow days spoils the fun.  Or does it?  I really enjoyed how the author didn’t translate the book, and used spanish as the characters would naturally speak. 

 Wow, just wow.  This book was so much fun.  The girl is Bea, and she is an anxious little girl who takes on an unwanted quest to find her grandfather the “pig wizard”.  Before her adventure gets started she meets Cab the last Galdurian.  There are many aspects of this book that remind me of the Dark Crystal, and that is a complement.  It’s its own story and not a retelling but it feels like a homage to one of my favorite stories and I loved it all the more for it.  The art work is great, the story is meaningful and approachable for any age.  I hope the series is completed before someone like Netflix grabs it up for an animated series.

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#Popsugarchallnge - set outdoors

 

 I love this series when I trip across it online, or when my boo sends me one.  He even got one signed that he hangs in the office.  It’s a very relatable comic and that many couples will see themselves in, without being negative or depressing.  I think an entire book at once is too much of a good thing, and I would endeavor to read it scene by scene one day at a time. 

 This was a weird collection of shorts.  It is a spin off of Beastars, which I have not read yet.  I think this might be better after reading at least one of those books.  These stories look at the differences between the Carnivores and the Herbivores, or the predators and the prey.  There seems to be no mention of the Omnivores, but maybe that is for later.  This feels very adult, and could make for interesting discussions.  My favorite story is this edition is the Happy Happy Cooking Show - where a Gator is teamed up with a Gazelle to host a good eats show. 

 This book is full of shorter stories.  I wish it was just one story.  As mini-stories it gets repetitive as it keeps telling us the point of the book - to do team ups with new heroes and past heroes.  I think any fan of the original series would like it.  Or even fans of the anime, but I was less than impressed.  It almost feels like US 8x8s where they just regurgitate a tv show on paper.