Reviews
Publisher's Weekly - Badger's Perfect Garden
In a story about patience and tempering expectations, Kaulitzki creates a woodland world of tree trunk homes and anthropomorphic animals. Red Squirrel and Dormouse help Badger plant a garden using the seeds he has stored in small jars. Badger envisions the plants growing into perfectly… View »
Kirkus reviews - Tip and Tucker Road Trip
This beginning reader introduces children to two hamsters with quite different personalities. Part of the I Am A Reader line, this first outing for Tip and Tucker opens in a pet shop, where Mr. Lopez has come to purchase a pet. Tucker, a larger tan hamster, is excited and tries to get Tip… View »
Kirkus Reviews - Badger's Perfect Garden
There is no drought of picture books about animal friends making a garden. The hook in this one is the message that when plans go awry, there may still be a rainbow at the end. It is spring. Badger has dozens of jars of seeds that he saved from last summer to plant the “perfect garden.” His… View »
Kirkus Reviews - Soar High, Dragonfly
A circular account of a dragonfly’s life span told simultaneously as a narrative and a collection of scientific facts. The creative duo behind Good Trick, Walking Stick (2016) returns to the insect world. Readers follow the life cycle of a green darner dragonfly, from its mother laying eggs… View »
Kirkus Reviews - The Wild World of Buck Bray: The Wolves of Slough Creek
Middle schooler and television star Buck Bray is back for a third outing, this time bringing his intrepid detecting skills to Yellowstone National Park. He’s accompanied by his partner in crime prevention, Toni, the daughter of the cameraman who films the national park-related… View »
Kirkus Reviews - Good Night, Library
The litany of items the text wishes good night includes poetry and prose, plots, puppet stages, computers, carpet squares, fairy tales, characters, filing cart, and more. This being a fairly modern library, they also bid good night to board games and comic books…The librarian, a white… View »
Kirkus Reviews - Ollie on Stage
A slapstick celebration of the process of discovering and honoring what makes us and our friends unique. View »
Kirkus Reviews - The First Men Who Went to the Moon
The rhymed lines are fully cumulated only once, so there is some repetition but never enough to grow monotonous…. A visually effective and a serviceable addition to the rapidly growing shelf of tributes to our space program’s high-water mark. View »
Kirkus Reviews - Bundle
A cute, purple hippo models winterwear in a variety of colors and makes a snowman an offer it can’t refuse. This sweet and simple board book engages children on several levels, first by introducing colors and various winter garments, then by encouraging them to review those colors—reading… View »
Kirkus Reviews - Lulu and Rocky in Milwaukee
An unexpectedly attractive addition to the standard picture-book travel guide. Lulu, a young fox, and her penguin companion, Pufferson, one day receive a letter from her aunt Fancy. Sending them tickets for the trip, her aunt encourages the duo to take the ferry to Milwaukee to join Lulu’s… View »