![]() What's under my bed?: Mary Ann and Louie are convinced there is something scary under their beds. Summary: The teacher from the Black Lagoon: On the first day of school, a young boy expects the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monster", Mrs. Voices by Jonathan Lipnicki, Diana Canova (Black Lagoon) voices, Barnard Hughes, Melissa Cayanni, Peter Prinstein (What's under my bed?) narrated by Sherry Stringfield (By the light of the Halloween moon). Production credits: Illustrators, Jared Lee, Kevin Hawkes, Ruth Brown, Michael Foreman. These aren't just any old books, this is a carefully curated collection and the Library itself is a piece of neighborhood art!” What makes the idea so special? Their website states: “Little Free Libraries have a unique, personal touch and there is an understanding that real people are sharing their favorite books with their community.Teacher from the Black Lagoon / by Mike Thaler illustrated by Jared Lee - What's under my bed? / by James Stevenson - By the light of the Halloween moon / by Caroline Stutson illustrated by Kevin Hawkes - Three robbers / by Tomi Ungerer - Dark, dark tale / by Ruth Brown - Georgie / by Robert Bright - Teeny-Tiny and the witch-woman / by Barbara K. In 2011, there were just 100 libraries and currently there's around 6,000 of them, all around the world. “By that account, we'll have 25,000 libraries by the end of the year,” says Bol. For $35, Little Free Library owners can put their library in a database so that others can find them. ![]() Those who register will also receive discounts and information about how to keep and maintain their library. It gets people talking and more comfortable with their neighbors,” he said. “This leads to them helping each other.”īelow are some creative ways people have dressed up their mini libraries. Love this idea! This free little library gives lets neighbors share and borrow books around their community.Fox! Teague! Together! I like a good unreliable narrator in my picture books, but it’s a yen that is so rarely satisfied. This book isn’t quite that, but it’s not not that either. For example, the first sentence reads, “So there was a scary dog, right?” On the page you see a cat hiding behind a couch with a massive white dog, barbed collar, mean expression.Įssentially, the narration sets up a situation, then immediately changes it with a page turn. “No! But there was a cat, right?” The dog on the couch is now a pretty benign fellow, the cat regarding him impassively. The text on the next page reads, “Yes! And the dog was wide awake, right?” And so it goes. What’s interesting about all of this is how it challenges the young reader to try and predict where things are going next. In fact, the book ends on a question, challenging readers to continue the story in their own way (I smell a wonderful writing assignment for teachers…). What this truly reminds me of is Unfortunately by Remy Charlip. ![]() In both cases your expectations are shifted, until you learn to go with the flow. Still, I like that this has the extra added benefit of making you question who precisely is telling this story. ![]() The cat? The dog? Or could it be the mouse (who pops up periodically throughout the tale)? A book that raises more questions than it answers, and that is a-okay.Ĭroc o’ Clock by Huw Lewis Jones, ill. Ben SandersĮddie Izzard has an old routine where she talks about how fantastic “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is as a song. People are running in from other rooms just to sing the “FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!” part. Well, it seems strange to me that I haven’t seen more singable picture books take advantage of our very human love of that song. Why must it be relegated to Christmas alone? Couldn’t we just write a picture book that recasts it with a hungry crocodile instead? Enter Croc o’ Clock. It’s feeding time at the zoo and on the hour, every hour, our croc hero gets something tasty to eat. If you walk into this book not realizing that it’s set to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” you’ll catch on pretty quickly. Meanwhile the art is colorful, peppy, and has a lot of zing. If I do have a criticism to wield, it’s that illustrator Ben Sanders missed a golden opportunity with the zoo clocks. It could also be a telling time book, since it systematically works its way from one o’ clock to twelve o’ clock in the course of things. ![]()
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