I love this book, but trying to say why I love it is hard.  It has great woodblock style illustrations, and most of the book is putting things in families like an unkindness of ravens.  It just has something I love, but I can't articulate why.

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I am a huge fan of Karen Beaumont, and when put together with David Catrow perfection can be attained.  I love that Catrow chose to make a POC the title character.  I love how the author talks about being perfect as long as you like yourself, it doesn't matter what others say.  Pure Perfection.

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This book is beautiful.  The amazing illustrations remind me of Da Vinci painting.  And the story while at part is a Beauty and the Beast retelling, it is also something entirely new, with new edge.  I loved everything about it.  It may be a little long for story time, but it would be great for bedtime or rainy day reading.

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This book was Awesome.  A bunch of great children’s authors were given the same question: Why did the chicken cross the road” and then asked to visually give us their answer.  My favorite is of course David Catrow, but Mo Willems comes in a close second.

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How have I gone my entire life not realizing the family in the corduroy books was Black.  The world has always needed more POC recognition in children’s books, but maybe in my younger days I didn’t pay attention the way I do now.  I love the corduroy books, or at least remember loving them as a child, and this book reiterated it.  Viola Davis writing a new book for the 50th anniversary of the original makes more sense to me now.  I wish there were more books like Corduroy, and more books with various POC as a child.  I may not be POC, but as a navy brat, I would have loved to see the places I lived and people I made friends with more represented. 

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 I like this series.  This one is quite a bit easier to sing than Mosquitoes are running my summer. And of course everyone will laugh at Cartrow’s illustrations. 

 

I am in love.  I have to find a copy of this book for my own collection.  First off it is illustrated by my favourite kids artist EVER David Catrow.  So you know it’s going to be funny.  The story is in the pattern of Night before Christmas, but Santa has been punched out and his understudy, Murray from the diner must take over.  This is a laugh out loud riot of a read that will become a new holiday tradition as soon as I can find a copy outside a library.

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This was hard.  It tried to keep the Night before christmas cadence, but the rhymes were harsh in multiple places and caused things to fall apart.  The story is also lack luster.  The illustrations are nice, but not a bit that makes me think of christmas.

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As always, Jan Brett has breath-taking illustrations and a sweat story that can be passed down for the ages.  This one involves trolls that destroy christmas, and one bear called Kitty that can save it.

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One tree in the field was never taken home to be a christmas tree and this leaves him sad.  Now he knows that he will never go home with anyone because he is too old, too tall, and too big.  His woodland friends help remind him that he is special all year around, and that without him, many of them would not be around.  This story is sweet, but a little sad.  The illustrations are precious and it just sets the season very well.

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