Submitted by Ms. Allana!
My Friend, the Starfinder by George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Everyone knows, or has known, an elderly person, like an old Uncle, or maybe a friendly and wise old neighbor. In this bedazzling and whimsical story, a little girl listens to the stories her old neighbor tells her. In particular, the story about him finding a falling star is most special to her. I enjoy the layout and flow of this book. Although the illustrations are not sharp with detail, they are right for this story, and one simple but meaningful line on each page is appealing to the littlest ears and eyes. See this book listed in our catalog
Hip Hop Dog
Pingo
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The Goat-Faced Girl
Submitted by Ms. Catherine!
Princess stories have been around forever, and there is hardly a little girl out there who doesn’t appreciate a good one. But what about a story in which a young girl works hard, and is able to give the “bird brained” prince his just desserts? In The Goat-Faced Girl, an Italian folktale retold by Leah Marinsky Sharpe, and illustrated by Jane Marinsky, the young heroine, as lovely and intelligent as she might be, is as lazy as a bed bug. Her dear sorceress mother fears for her daughter’s future as a lazy lump. With a bit of magic, some cookbooks, and some hard work, our heroine learns that perhaps spending your life being waited on by servants with a boring lazy prince is not the best option. Maybe hard work and a brain will win out over beauty after all! See this book listed in our catalog
Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth!
Submitted by special guest blogger Ms. Judie from the Charlotte Hall branch!
Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth by Sarah Weeks. Sophie Peterman is a beacon of truth in the picture book world. She lays it all on the line, and gives us the skinny on baby brothers. And the skinny is not pretty: baby brothers smell bad, they mess up your stuff, they look like aliens, and they SOMEHOW manage to convince the grown-ups that they’re cute. As an older sibling myself, I know from experience that everything Sophie tells us is true, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Sophie learns how important she is to her baby brother and starts to see how maybe having him around could be okay. This book will be hilariously familiar to anyone who has had to endure a baby brother (or sister) and somehow learned to like it. See this book listed in our catalog