Hi Everyone!
I hope storytime is going well with you all and that you are getting a lot of reading done this summer! If you signed up for any summer reading programs with local libraries, bookstores, etc, I hope you are blowing them out of the water!
I apologize for not getting The Picture Book Wall up last month. I was out of town visiting family for a few weeks with the bug and away from the majority of my picture books.
Anyways, I have four books to share with you this month! I hope you enjoy! Keep on reading with your littles!
Title: Black Cat & White Cat
Author: Claire Garralon
Series: Stand Alone
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Publication Date: June 7, 2016
Source: Publisher
Rating: 3 Stars
Black Cat & White Cat is a nice sized board book meant for those younger kids that are still a bit rough on their books. Board books are nice, they hold up to a lot.
Black Cat & White Cat is about, you guessed it, a black cat and a white cat. The black cat lives in a white world, and the white cat lives in a black world. They want to play with each other, but every time one tries to visit the other, one of them disappears!
The artistry in this book is very simple. It is in black and white, so it is a really good book for younger kids/babies that like to look at contrast and having them do so even helps develop their vision!
However, I feel that there is an underlying message to this story. An important one... but I think it will get lost on the littles. You can always use it to open up a discussion with them, but depending on the age, it still may be quite a bit over their heads.
This review is based on a copy provided by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Title: First Grade, Here I Come!
Author: D.J. Steinberg
Illustrator: Tracy Bishop
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Publication Date: June 28, 2016
Source: Publisher
Rating: 3 Stars
This story is more or less meant for a child entering into, or in the first grade. However, you could change the grade when you are reading it, or just say school in general, and it would still work.
Actually, this story isn't really a story. It is a collection of little verses/poems for different aspects of the school day/year. So you have one for math, spelling, snack time, etc. It tries to cover a bit of everything one can expect to happen in an average first grade school year.
Some of the verses are really cute and fun, while others fall short. But over all the whole collection is fun. It is definitely a storytime read that will help get kids excited about school!
This review is based on a copy provided by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Title: Blue Boat
Author: Kersten Hamilton
Illustrator: Valeria Petrone
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: May 24, 2016
Source: Publisher
Rating: 3 Stars
Blue Boat is about a rescue boat that happens to be, well, blue. The story within its pages is that the boat is off to save a family that is stuck out in the water and a super dangerous, scary storm in coming in.
There really isn't much more to the story than that. I would say the majority of this story is in the artwork which is fun and bright. It is entertaining enough, but as a parent, I would like a bit more to the story than was actually there.
The nice thing though is that not only does this book come as a normal picture book, but it also comes as a board book. So you can get a much harder to destroy copy that you can let your little boat lover have to look at whenever their hearts desire!
This review is based on a copy provided by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Title: A Dark, Dark Cave
Author: Eric Hoffman
Illustrator: Corey R. Tabor
Series: Stand Alone
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: May 24, 2016
Source: Publisher
Rating: 3 Stars
A Dark, Dark Cave is a story of two kids exploring a cave. And things happen in the cave, scary things, wonderful things, all sorts of things. Then a father figure appears and knocks the kids back into reality and tells them that they have to play quietly because the baby is asleep. Then they are no longer in a cave, but some where else.
This is a story about imagination. The kids are playing in some sort of blanket/pillow fort that they built in a room in the house. For this story it is a cave, but it really could have been anything.
I don't really like that the parental figure had to show up and ruin the imaginary play. I would have preferred it much more if the story told us it was an imaginary cave in a different manner that didn't make it appear as if us adults are imagination killers (I admit that I could very well be reading way too much into that part of the story).
Otherwise it was a cute story and the illustrations were nice. What you see on the cover is pretty much how all the illustrations look within. It just depends on what is going on in the story on what and how much illustration you get.
This review is based on a copy provided by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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