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2014 Children and Teens Department Summer Favorites 2014 CHILDREN AND TEENS DEPARTMENT SUMMER FAVORITES , copyright 2014 with permission from Candlewick from with permission 2014 , copyright Firefly July Firefly Illustration from from Illustration 1 PICTURE BOOKS Never turn the page too quickly. Never assume you know what happens next. These are the rules for reading Rules of Summer (Arthur A. Levine, $18.99). In this tale of two brothers’ summertime adventures and mistakes, Shaun Tan creates a world in which meteors are caught like fireflies, robots populate parades, Kazuno Kohara animates the sleeping hours in and a giant rabbit menaces those who leave The Midnight Library (Roaring Brook, $16.99), red socks on the clothesline. Tan’s sweeping a charming tale of the nocturnal life of a library surreal paintings pair with sparse text to create and the librarian who shepherds its animal a world of commonplace marvels that invite patrons. Characters will inspire giggles in young the full participation of the reader. His work readers and ring true to daytime librarians: never confines a reader to a single, easily the loud squirrel musicians, the tortoise who interpretable narrative. Its appeal is part wonder, has plodded only halfway through his tome by part adventure, and part lurking menace. Wildly closing (sunrise). The linocut illustrations’ bold inventive and richly layered, this meditation outlines and minimal color palette add a layer on friendship, childhood, and imagination will of nighttime fantasy and heighten the book’s engage a wide range of readers. The book’s an magic. A sweet homage to librarians, the book adventure in itself, the kind to which one returns also works as a bedtime read, closing with a again and again. All ages. Amy Dickinson sleepy story shared between the librarian and her patrons. Ages 3-5. Amy Dickinson (Available Opening Green is in June) a Chile Pepper (Chronicle, Can you spot The $16.99) is like Odd One Out? stepping into a (Big Picture Books, favorite candy $14.99). Take time shop. The to enjoy this little colors, tastes, gem with your and effortless youngsters. Britta rhythm found Teckentrup’s on each page bold, beautiful are a palpable delight to the senses. Roseanne patterns present Greenfield Thong’s cheerful rhyming verse short, visual colorfully describes both common staples of puzzles on each everyday life and treasured celebrations of Latino page, some more culture (a simple glossary at the back defines challenging than any unfamiliar Spanish words). John Parra’s others. Look closely to see which ostrich pecks enchantingly detailed folk-style art tempts at the ground, which bird gets the worm, which the reader to spend extra time with each page. panda has lost its shoot of bamboo, which seal is www.politics-prose.com • (202) 364-1919www.politics-prose.com Who knew learning your colors could be such a already eating his dinner, and many more. Ages delectable endeavor? Ages 2-5. Renée Bosco 3-6. Kerri Poore 2 An ominous rumble explores beyond the edges of the kingdom, where alarms five carpenter she makes some perplexing discoveries. K.G. ants inside their Campbell, illustrator of the 2014 Newbery Medal P wooden stump. It may winner Flora & Ulysses, creates an enchanting ICT be a sneaky gray but relatable tale of a mermaid full of character aardvark, worries one and grit in The Mermaid and the Shoe (Kids Can, of the ants, but when $16.95). Ages 4-8. Emily Ellerbe URE another ant drills a hole to see better, Herman Blount, though the cautious ant he lived in Birmingham, declares that It’s an Alabama, hailed from B Orange Aardvark! Saturn; and, as soon as (Greenwillow, $17.99). Michael Hall provides an he could, he changed OO insider’s view of the stump with clever use of torn his name to Sun Ra— paper, acrylic-painted textures, and die-cuts that Herman was no name reveal a different color of the rainbow with each for a Saturnian. The K drilled hole. Delightfully personable ants and a infinitely curious Sun cunning ending ensure that this cumulative tale is Ra could play piano S destined to become a favorite to share and read and notate music by the age of 11. By high school, aloud. Ages 4-6. Mary Alice Garber he was leading his own ensemble. By adulthood, he’d mastered blues, doo-wop, and jazz. Watch Out for Some called it “too far out,” but Sun Ra always the Crocodile followed his own sound, from conscientious (Gecko, $17.95), objection to World War II to the foil crowns his yells Tora to band wore at shows. Chris Raschka’s swirling her father. abstract paintings are a perfect match for The Tora’s dad, Cosmobiography of Sun Ra (Candlewick, $15.99), usually a very lending life and movement to this fascinating look boring dad, at a poet, philosopher, and musician for whom life has taken Tora and art were inextricably intertwined. Ages 4-8. on a camping trip. Tora is yearning for some Amy Dickinson adventure, so she vividly imagines many wild animals along the trail to their campsite, such as You don’t notice DC 20008 Washington, • NW Ave 5015 Connecticut a boa constrictor (or perhaps it is an anaconda), them because you a flock of giraffes, and resting hippopotamuses. believe they’re Her dad’s imagination, however, is a little bit not there. You rusty, especially when he is using his GPS and don’t think about answering calls on his cell phone. This lovely tale them because by Lisa Moroni, accompanied by her mother Eva they haven’t been Eriksson’s illustrations, reveal a pair of campers created yet. But who really let their imaginations run wild. Ages Dan Santat proves 4-7. Kerri Poore that they’re alive, thriving, and very Each of King Neptune’s much real in The fifty daughters has a Adventures of special gift, except for Beekle: the Unimaginary Friend (Little, Brown, “useless” Minnow, who $17). Born on an island where imaginary friends has only questions. are created, Beekle waits patiently for his turn Where do the bubbles to be chosen, until he does the unimaginable: go? Why don’t crabs summoning the idea of a human friend to bring have fins? And, him courage, he journeys out into the real world. one exciting day, In a dark place, Beekle follows a familiar sight, what is that thing and everything begins to feel a little less strange. floating down into Dan Santat’s wonderfully magical tale may make the underwater kingdom? Minnow leaves her you wonder where your imaginary friend gifted but scornful mermaid sisters behind and is. Ages 4-8. Allison Trotter 3 Alan Rabinowitz recalls for us his painful, voiceless childhood as a stutterer. “The teachers “Hi, Koo!” (Scholastic, $17.99) says each season to think I am broken. Am I?” His voice froze when a special panda bear, who enjoys every one with he tried to speak to humans, but was released his human friends. Autumn brings new clothes, when he was with animals: the small pets he the chance to dance, and warm cookies. Winter collected at home, and one special jaguar at knocks at the door with an opportunity for a the Bronx Zoo. Caged in a bare room, the jaguar powdery stomp. New leaves, new grass, and seemed as trapped and voiceless as young new sky bring spring, allowing Koo to observe, Alan was, and so he swore that one day he quiet and still. Finally there’s summer: fireflies would speak for animals. Cátia Chien’s delicate and kites. Jon J. Muth’s playful watercolors illustrations bring to life the story of A Boy and a and accompanying haikus encourage us to Jaguar (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99), and remember—or embrace—our childhood, using a heartfelt promise made and, incredibly, kept. familiar sensory images to capture the heart, soul, Ages 5-8. Emily Ellerbe and innocence of each passing season. Ages 4-8. Allison Trotter Maria and Mouse Mouse are an unlikely pair with In 1824, to curry favor with the King of France, a big secret and more similarities than they know. the Pasha of Egypt decided to present him with A human and a rodent, they have to keep their an extraordinary gift… a baby giraffe named friendship hidden. One night, as Maria and Mouse Zeraffa Giraffa (Frances Lincoln, $17.99). The Mouse get ready for bed, Maria in her room and execution of this act of generosity proved a bit Mouse Mouse in her hole under the floor, neither difficult. The trip entailed travel downriver with can find her mother to tuck her in! Searching Zeraffa’s attendant Atir, “until they came to the frantically among kitchens, living rooms, and place where the sea sipped up the Nile.” After outrageously detailed illustrations, the two must crossing the Mediterranean, they WALKED the stop to ask “Where’s Mommy?” (Schwartz and 550 miles across France to Paris, where Zeraffa Wade, $17.99). Beverly Donofrio’s heartfelt story was settled in the Jardin des Plantes and became and Barbara McClintock’s whimsical illustrations an instant celebrity with the Parisians. Author www.politics-prose.com • (202) 364-1919www.politics-prose.com work together to create a clever tale that shows Dianne Hofmeyr’s elegant prose and Jane Ray’s that children aren’t the only ones with secrets. exquisite illustrations bring this suprising historical Ages 4-8. Allison Trotter journey to life. Ages 5-8. Renée Bosco 4 P ICT URE B Torben Kuhlmann’s Lindbergh (North South, $19.95) introduces readers to an inventive “We have new friends.” These simple words are OO mouse living in turn-of-the-century Hamburg, whispered to the baker, the librarian, and the where mysterious mechanical contraptions farmer—and accommodations are made for (mousetraps) have forced hundreds of friends the Jewish family hiding in Anett’s basement in K into exile.
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