Children's Books I read in 2020 during the Pandemic

 Well, it's time to consider what books will get awards. The Newbery and Caldecott awards will not be announced until Next Year but readers are considering which books published this year qualify.  However, I realized that I had not posted the books that I read during the first year of the pandemic - 2020.  So here goes.

The list of children's books I read last year with some comments:

Picture Books

 Bailey, Jenn. A friend for Henry. Illus Mika Song.  San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2019.

Harrison, David and Jane Yolen. Rum Pum Pum. Illus Anjan Sarkar. NY: Holiday House, 2020.

Loney, Andrea. Double Bass Blues. Illus Rudy Gutierrez. NY: Alfred A knopf, 2019.

Maillard, Kevin Noble. Fry Bread – a Native American family story. Illus. Juana Martinex=Neal.

             NY: Roaring Brook Press, 2019.

            (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational

             book for children. It was also a Picture Book Honor choice for the American

            Indian Youth Literature award.) 

McKissack, Patrica C. What is given from the heart. Illus. April Harrison. NY: Schwartz &

             Wade books, 2019.  (Coretta Scott King New Illustrator Award)

Morris, Richard. Bear Came Along.  Illus: LeUyen Pham. NY: Little, brown and Co., 2019.

            (2020 Caldecott winner)

Nyong’o, Lupita. Sulwe. Illus. Vashti Harrison. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for young readers,

             2019. (2020 Corretta Scott King illustrator honor) (author was warrior in Black Panther)

Pizzoli, Greg. The Book Hog. NY: Hyperion, 2019.  

            (Geisel award winner- even tho in picture book format, not ICR format.)

Portis, Antonette. Hey Water.  NY:  Neal Porter Books/ Holiday House, 2019.

            (Backmatter – Water Forms, The Water Cycle, Conserving Water, Books to Explore.

             This is classified as NF by Library of Congress, but San Diego Library has it in 

             picture books)

Ransome, James. The Bell Rang. NY: Atheneum books for young children, 2019.

            (2020 Corretta Scott King illustrator honor)

Roth, Susan. Birds of a Feather- bowerbirds and me.  NY: Neal Porter Books/ Holiday House,

             2019.  (both bowerbirds and Susan are artists creating collages)

Theule, Larissa. Born to ride, a story about bicycle face.   Illus. Kelsey Garrity-Riley. 

            NY: Abrams books for Young Readers, 2019. 

            (Illustrations show the fight for women’s right to vote)

Yang, James. Stop! Bot!  NY: Viking, 2019. (book is taller than wide because - tall building)

 

I Can Read

 Morris, J.E.  Flubby is Not a good pet! NY: Penguin Workshop, 2019.  (Jennifer Morris)

            (2020 Geisel honor book)

 

J – FICTION :

 Applegate, Katherine. The One and Only Bob. NY: Harper, 2020.

            (Sequel to The One and Only Ivan)

Coville, Bruce. Aliens stole my body.  (v. 4 of Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol)

            NY: Aladdin paperbacks, 1998.  (The series is now being made into a movie)

Messner, Kate. Chirp.  NY: Bloomsbury, 2020.

            (Mystery. Who is sabotaging grandmother’s crickets for food business, plus what is

             Mia’s hidden secret. I had trouble even thinking about crickets for food. Yuck.)

Mlynowski, Sarah, Lauren Myracle, Emily Jenkins. Upside Down Magic. NY: Scholastic, 2015.

                 (now made into a Disney Movie.  The movie was OK but the books were better.)

    ….   Upside Down Magic – Sticks & Stones. v. 2.   NY: Scholastic, 2016.

    ….   Upside Down Magic – Showing Off. v. 3.   NY: Scholastic, 2017.

    ….   Upside Down Magic – Dragon Overnight. v. 4.   NY: Scholastic, 2018.

    ….   Upside Down Magic – Weather or not.  v. 5.   NY: Scholastic, 2018.

    ….   Upside Down Magic – The big shrink.  v. 6.   NY: Scholastic, 2019.

    ….   Upside Down Magic – Hide and Seek.  v. 7.   NY: Scholastic, 2020.

Noel, Kaela.  Coo. Illus. Celia Krampien. NY: Greenwillow/ HarperCollins books, 2020.

            (I didn’t believe the first chapters and feel they were tacked on to create backstory, but 

            the bulk of the story – a girl who can talk to pigeons – is well done. Raised by pigeons

             from infant to 10 years old – not so much. Where would pigeons get milk for a baby?)

Park, Linda Sue.  Prairie Lotus. NY: Clarion Books, 2020.

                 (2021 Asian/Pacific American award. Maybe more.)

Schmidt, Gary D.  Pay Attention, Carter Jones.  NY: Clarion Books/ HMH, 2019.

                 (Dad has disappeared. An English Butler appears, organizing and supporting the 

            distraught family.  Also, much about the game of Cricket & how Carter applies it to life.)

Shurtiff, Liesl.  Time Castaways #1, the Mona Lisa Key. NY: Katherine Tegan Books/ 

            HarperCollins, 2018.

   ….    Time Castaways #2, the Obsidian Compass. NY: Katherine Tegan Books/ 

            HarperCollins, 2019.

    ….   Time Castaways #3, The forbidden lock. NY: Katherine Tegan Books/ 

            HarperCollins, 2020.

Slade, Arthur.  Jolted – Newton Starker’s rules for survival. NY: Random House, 2009.

            (boy from family who attracts and dies by lightning strike – will he survive?)

Springer, Nancy. The case of the Missing Marquess, an Enola Holmes mystery. NY: Philomel/

             Penguin Books for Young Readers, 2006. 

    ….   The case of the left-handed lady, an Enola Holmes mystery. NY: Philomel/ Penguin

             Books for Young readers, 2007.

    ….   The case of the bizarre bouquets, an Enola Holmes mystery. NY: Philomel/ Penguin

             Books for Young Readers, 2008. 

    ….   The case of the peculiar pink fan, an Enola Holmes mystery. NY: Philomel/ Penguin

             Books for Young Readers, 2008. 

    ….   The Case of the Cryptic crinoline, an Enola Holmes mystery. NY: Philomel/ Penguin

             Books for Young Readers, 2009. 

    ….   The case of the gypsy good-bye.  an Enola Holmes mystery. NY: Philomel/ Penguin

             Books for Young Readers, 2010. 

                        (now a movie)

Timberlake, Amy.  One came home – a sister lost, a body found, the truth buried. NY: Knopf,

             2013.

Reedy, Trent.  Stealing Air. NY: Arthur A. Levine/ Scholastic, 2012. (skateboarding)

Young, Karen Romano.  A girl, a raccoon, and the midnight moon.  Illus. Jesixa Bagley. 

            San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2019.  (Saving a library branch)

 

YA Fiction:

 Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The boy who dared, a novel based on the true story of a Hitler 

            youth.  NY: Scholastic Press, 2008.

Jones, Diana Wynne.  Dark Lord of Derkholm. NY: Greenwillow/ HarperTrophy, 1998.

            (The title sounds scary, but it’s actually a funny fantasy.)

McCaffrey, Anne.  Dragonsong.  NY: Atheneum, 1976.

    ….   Dragonsinger. NY: Atheneum, 1977.

    ….   Dragondrums. NY: Atheneum, 1979.

                        (These three are stories of young Harpers and their craft view of the major events

                  happening in the upper Dragon Weyrs as told in her Adult books about PERN.)

Reeve, Philip.  Mortal Engines, the Hungry City Chronicles.  NY: HarperCollins, 2001

    ….   Predator’s Gold, book 2 of the Hungry City Chronicles.  NY: Scholastic, 2003

    ….   Night Flights, a Mortal Engines Collection. NY: Scholastic, 2018. 

            (short stories about the aviatrix, Anna Fang who saved the Mortal Engines protagonists)

    ….   Infernal Devices, book 3 of the Hungry City Chronicles.  NY: Scholastic, 2005.

    ….   A darkling plain, book 4 of the Hungry City Chronicles.  NY: Scholastic, 2006.

    ….   A web of air, book 2 of the Fever Crumb series.  NY: Scholastic, 2010.

                        (prequel to the Hungry City Chronicles)

    Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children.  Philadelphis, PA: Quirk Books,

             2011. 

    ….   Hollow City, the second novel of Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children. Philadelphis, PA: 

            Quirk Books, 2014. 

 

 

PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHIES:

 J Blondin.        Bowman, Donna Janell. King of the Tightrope, when the Great Blondin ruled 

            Niagara.  GA: Peachtree, 2019.

 

J and YA BIOGRAPHIES:

J Bryan.           Bryan, Ashley. Infinite Hope, a black artist’s journey from World War II to

             Peace. NY: Caitiyn Diouhy/ Atheneum Books, 2019. 

            (illustrated with Photographs plus his artistic renderings)

J Leeuwwenhoek        Alexander, Lori. All in a drop, how Antony van Leeuenhoek discovered an

             invisible world. Ill. Vivien Mildenberger. NY:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. 

            (2020 Robert Sibert honor award)  (Chapter book illustrated biography)

YA Lindbergh             Fleming, Candace. The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh. NY: Schwartz

             & Wade books, 2020.                        (I never knew he was a NAZI and American First leader)

            (2021 -ALA YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults.)

 

J and YA NONFICTION:

 YA 323           Brimner, Larry Dane. Blacklisted! Hollywood, the cold war, and the first 

            amendment.  Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, 2018.  (excellent coverage of the damage

             the House Un-American Activities Committee did to life in the USA. And warnings

             about it possibly beginning to happen again under Trump, except flipped.)

J 595.492        Schnell, Lisa Kahn. High Tide for horseshoe crabs. Illus. Alan Marks. 

            MA: Charlesbridge, 2015. 

J 811.6            Alexander, Kwame. The Undefeated. Illus. Kadir Nelson. NY: Houghton Mifflin

             Harcourt, 2019.  (Caldecott honor, Golden Kite award) 

J 940.54          Heiligman, Deborah.  Torpedoed – the true story of the World War II sinking of

             the children’s ship. NY: Henry Holt, 2019.

            (2020 Winner of SCBWI’s Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction for Older Readers)

YA 943.086    Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.  Hitler Youth, growing up in Hitler’s shadow. 

            NY: Scholastic, 2005.  (wonderfully researched)

Children's books read in 2019

This year I've read over 100 books.
These are the children's books:

Booklist of Books Read in 2019

Picture Books

Blackall, Sophie. Hello Lighthouse. NY: Little Brown and Company, 2018. 

            (winner of the 2019 Randolph Caldecott award – her second one)

            (Excellent author note about lighthouses.  NOTE- she knows that librarians don’t

             like important information on the endpapers covered up by the book cover, so she

             left empty space there.  Yay!)

Campbell, Marcy. Adrian Simcox does not have a horse.  Illus. Corinna Luyken. NY: Dial

             Books fYR, 2018.

Choi, Susan.  Camp Tiger. Illus John Rocco.  NY: GP  Putnam’s Sons, 2019.

Clarke, Maxine Benega. The patchwork bike. Illlus. Van Thanh Rudd. Somerville, MA: 

Candlewick Press, 2018. (Illustrations of cobbled together not-quite bike parts

 painted on cardboard.)

Colleen, Marcie. Penguinaut!  Illus. Emma Yarlett. NY: Orchard Books/ Scholastic, 2018.

Cuevas, Michelle. The care and feeding of a pet black hole.  NY: Dial books for young 

            readers, 2017.  (mixture of science, fantasy, adapting to the death of a father.)

Denos, Julia. Windows. Illus. E.B. Goodale.  Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2017.

(nighttime walk looking at house windows from outside, imagining what’s

 happening inside.)

Henkes, Kevin.  A Parade of Elephants. NY:  Greenwillow books, 2018.

Holm, Jennifer L., vs. Matthew Holm. The evil princess vs. the brave knight. NY: Random

             House, 2019. (although Jennifer and her brother Matthew are white, Matthew

             created an Asian Princess and an African Knight for this story of sibling rivalry.)

James, LK. The Full House and the empty house.  Shelburne, VT: Ripple Grove Press, 2019.

Jenkins, Emily. All-of-a-Kind family Hanukkah, based on the classic books by Sydney Taylor.

             Illus. Paul O. Zelinsky.  NY: Swartz & Wade books, 2018.  

            (Sydney Taylor Book award winner for younger readers.)

Le, Minh. Drawn Together. Illus. Dan Santat. NY: Hyperion/ Disney, 2018.  

            (ALSC Notable children’s book and other awards)

Lies, Brian. The Rough Patch.  NY: HarperCollins, 2018.  (Caldecott Honor Book)

Lin, Grace. A big mooncake for little star.  NY: Little Brown and company, 2018.

            (the author says it is Not based on any Chinese folktales but is an original tale)

            (2019 Caldecott Honor Book – second one for her)

Love, Jessica.  Julia’n is a mermaid.  Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2018. 

            (was the winner of the Stonewall Book award, honoring books important to the

             LGBTQ experience.)

Lyons, Kelly Starling. Going Down Home with Daddy. Illus Daniel Minter.  Atlanta, GA:

             Peachtree, 2019.  

Martinez-Neal, Juana. Alma and how she got her name. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press,

             2018.  (she was named after various relatives who had talents that Alma has

             inherited.) (2019 Caldecott Honor book)

McClintock, Barbara.  Vroom! NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2019.

Mora, Oge. Thank you, Omu! NY: Little Brown and Company, 2018. 

            (Caldecott Honor book and Winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New

             Talent Illustrator Award. A small author’s note included.)

Morales, Yuyi. Dreamers. NY: Greenwillow, 2018.  (2019 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award)

            (lovely book about an immigrant –herself- discovering USA free libraries with a long

             author’s note about her own experience as an immigrant becoming a permanent

             resident of USA.)

Newman, Leslea. Sparkle boy.  Illus. Maria Mola.  NY: Lee & Low, 2017. 

            (preschool boy wants sparkle skirt, bracelet, fingernails & parents are ok with it.)

Paul, Miranda. Nine Months, before a baby is born. Illus. Jason Chin. NY:  Holiday House, 

2019.   (Illustrations of the development of a baby on one side and illustrations of

 activities of the family on the other.)

Portis, Antoinette. Hey, Water!  NY: Neal Porter Books, Holiday House, 2019.

            (actually has lots of NF information and could easily be catalogued NF.  Actually,

             Library of Congress lists it as 553 nonfiction.  Don’t know why my library made it

             EASY BOOKS)

Quintero, Isabel. My Papi has a Motorcycle. Illus Zeke Pena. NY: Kokila/ Penguin Random,

             2019. (uses Spanish words with no explanation)

Reidy, Jean. Truman. Illus Lucy Ruth Cummins.  NY:  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 

            2019.   (Triman is a turtle)

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro.  Why?  NY: Neal Porter Books/ Holiday House, 2019.

Sorell, Traci. We are Grateful, Otsaliheliga. Illus Frane’ Lessac. Watertown, MA: 

Charlesbridge, 2018. (Cherokee events around the year teaching Cherokee words.

ALA Sibert Honor)

Stemple, Heidi.  Counting Birds. Illus Clover Robin. Lake Forest, CA: Quarto/ Sea Grass, 

            2018.

Teague, Mark.  Fly!  NY: Beachlane Books, 2019.  (wordless view of mama bird thoughts

             and baby bird’s thoughts – which often get ridiculous.)

Underwood, Deborah. Ogilvy. Illus T.L. McBeth. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2019.

Wenzel, Brendan. A stone sat still.  San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2019.

            (an illustrated tone poem)

Yolen, Jane and Heidi Stemple. Not all princesses dress in pink. Illus Anne-Sophie Languetin. 

            NY: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010.

Yolen, Jane and Adam Stemple. Crow not Crow. Illus Elizabeth Dulemba.  APEX, NC: Cornell Lab Publishing Group, 2018.

Yolen, Jane.  What to do with a box.  Illus Chris Sheban.  Mankato, MN: Creative Editions,

             2018.  (as you read, the board book takes the shape of a box)

I Can Read

Butler, Dori Hillestad.  King & Kayla and the case of the lost tooth.  Atlanta GA:  Peachtree 

            Publishers, 2018.  (2019 Theodor Seuss Geisel honor book)

Tabor, Corey. Fox and the Tiger.  NY: Balzer + Bray, 2018.  

            (2019 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award) 

J – FICTION :

Alexander, Zeno.  The Library of Ever.  Book 1. NY: Imprint/ Macmillan, 2019.

            (Pen name of VCFA grad, Stephen Messer.)

Auxier, Jonathan.       Sweep – the story of a girl and her monster. NY: Amulet Books, 2018.

            2019 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner, Older Readers
            2019 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Winner
            2018 National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Children's Literature

Barrett, Tracy.  Marabel and the book of fate.  NY: Little Brown, 2018.

Blake, Ashley Herring, The might heart of Sunny St. James. NY: Little Brown, 2019.

            (girl with replacement heart discovers she loves girls, not boys.) 

Coakley, Lena.      Wicked Nix.  NY: Amulet Books, 2018.

GN JC  Craft, Jerry.  New Kid.  NY: Harper, 2019.    (graphic novel)

GN JM Meconis, Dylan. Queen of the Sea. NY:  Walker Books, 2019. (graphic novel)

Medina, Meg.  Merci Suarez changes gears. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press,

             2018.  (John Newbery Medal Winner, 2019)

Magoon, Kekla. The Seasons of Styx Malone. NY: Random House, 2018. 

Messer, Stephen.  Windblowne. NY: Random House, 2010.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. The Book of Boy.  NY: Greenwillow Books, 2018. 

            (John Newbery Honor Book, 2019)

Perl, Erica. All Three Stooges. NY: Alfred A. Knnoff, 2018. 

            (Sydney Taylor Book honor book for older readers.)

Reedy, Trent.  Gamer Army.  NY: Scholastic - Arthur A Levine Books, 2018.  

            (an updated version of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card?)

Rodkey, Geoff. We’re not from here.  NY:  Crown Books FYR, 2019.

            (SF. The last humans land on a strange planet of giant mosquito-like beings where 

they are NOT accepted.)

Vallentine, Nicold. A time traveler’s theory of relativity. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda books,

             2019.  

Yang, Kelly. Front Desk. NY: Arthur A Levine Books/ Scholastic, 2018.

Yelchin, Eugene. Spy Runner. NY:  Henry Holt and Co, 2019. (1953 Communist scare)

YA Fiction:

Anderson, MT, et al. Fatal throne, the wives of Henry VIII tell all. NY:   Schwartz & Wade

 books, 2018.   (each wife written by a different person – Jennifer Donnelly, Candace

 Fleming, Stephanie Hemphill, Lisa Ann Sandell, Linda Sue Pak, Deborah Hopkinson,  

and MT Anderson wrote the Henry VIII parts.)

Berry, Julie. The scandalous sisterhood of Prickwillow Place. NY:  Roaring brook Press, 2014.

Brennan, Sarah Rees. In Other Lands. Easthampton, MA: Big Mouth House, 2017.

            (Fantasy/ bi-sexual hero)

Capetta, Amy Rose and Cori McCarthy. Once & Future – this time Excalibur chooses her. 

NY: Jimmy Patterson Books, 2019.  

(LGBTQ+ version of the King Arthur story, set in the future.)

Card, Orson Scott      Ender’s Game. NY: Tor, 1977, 1991.

Edwardson, Debby Dahl. My name is not easy.  Skyscape, 2011. 

            (National book Award Finalist) (Alaskan boarding school)

Khorram, Adib.  Darius the Great is not okay. NY:  Dial, 2018.

            (Persian/ American boy with depression visits family in Iran)

Lee, Mackenzi. The Gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue. NY: Katherine Tegen Books/

             HarperCollins publishers, 2017. 

            (homosexuals on their Grand Tour in Regency times)

Murphy, Jullie.           Dumplin’, go big or go home.  NYL Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins, 2015.

GN YA             Wang, Jen. The prince and the Dressmaker.  NY: First Second, 2018. 

            (graphic Novel)

PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHIES:

JB Binney       Biebow, Natascha. The Crayon Man, the true story of the invention of Crayola

             crayons.  Illus Steven Salerno. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

JB Brown        Barnett, Mac. The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown. Illus. Sarah

             Jacoby.  NU: Balzer + Bray/ HarperColllins, 2019.

            (Clever use of titles of Brown’s books and using page number to match Brown’s age

             for events.  However, I’m sure that Ann Carroll More didn’t call her books TRUCK.

             She probably said, Druck or Dreck.  I suspect autocorrect messed that up.)

JB Burton       Rinker, Sherri. Big Machines: the story of Virginia Lee Burton. Illus John Rocco.

             Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.  (illustrated in Virginia Lee Burton’s style.

             Word placement is also in her style, not often seen these days. Plus constant 

            inclusion of her two boys and their appreciation of her big machine stories.)

JB Goldberg    Aronson, Sarah. Just like Rube Goldberg, the incredible true story of the man

 behind the machines.  Illus Robert Neubecker. NY:  Beach Lane Books, 2019.

JB Jordan        Barton, Chris. What do you do with a voice like that? The story of 

            extraordinary congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Illus. Ekua Holmes.  NY: Beach Lane

             Books, 2018.   (NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction)

            (wonderful backmater, including a time line giving much, much more info)

JB King            Meltzer, Brad. I am Billie Jean King. Illus Christopher Eliopoulos. NY: Penguin

             Young Readers, 2019.

JB LaMarr       Wallmark, Laurie. Hedy LaMarr’s double life, Hollywood legend and brilliant

             inventor. Illus Katy Wu. MY: Sterling Children’s Books, 2019.

JB Fletcher.     Nelson, Vaunda. Let ‘er buck! George Fletcher, the People’s Champion.  Illus Gordon C. James.  Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2019.

JB Newbery    Markel, Michelle. Balderdash! John Newbery and the boisterous birth of 

            children’s books.  Illus Nancy Carpenter. San Francisco: Chronicle books, 2017.

JB Tolkien. John Ronald’s Dragons – the story of J.R.R. Tolkien.  Illus. Eliza Wheeler. 

NY: Roaring Brook Press, 2017. 

JB Tyson.        Krull, Kathleen and Paul Brewer. Starstruck – the cosmic journey of Neil 

            DeGrasse Tyson. Illus. Frank Morrison. NY: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2018.

J BIOGRAPHIES:

J and YA NONFICTION:

J 379.26          Boyce, Ann Allen and Debbie Levy. The promise of change, one girl’s story in

 the fight for school equality.  NY:  Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2019.

(The desegregation of a high school in Tennessee told in blank verse)

J 641.822        Wang, Andrea. Magic Ramen, the story of Momofuku Ando. Illus Kana

             Urbanowicz. NY: Little Bee Books, 2019.

YA973.913     Sandler, Martin. 1919, the year that changed America.  NY: Bloomsbury, 2019.

YA973.933     Brockenbrough, Martha. Unpresidented, a Biography of Donald Trump.  NY:

             Feiwel and Friends, 2018.  (ends in the middle of 2018. Blue typeface – even the

             photographs.) (among the dedications are the words “And to the Parkland 

            generation: You know what to do.)

Children's Book Week

It's National Children's Book Week!
I know -- Children's Book Week used to be in the fall. But it came at the same time as National Education Week. People were so busy visiting their kid's schools that they hardly noticed that the public libraries were also having special events this week.

For this, or probably other reasons, Children's Book Week was changed to happen in May. This week, in fact.

So -- read a children's book. Read one a day.
Hurry, you are already several days behind. Luckily picture books are short, so go check out some of the wonderful picture books that Fuse #8 has been featuring on her blog the past couple of weeks.
-wendie old