Julia's House for Lost Creatures
Ben Hatke
ISBN: 9781596438668
By the author of Zita the Spacegirl. Julia's house is built onto a giant tortoise, and it's moved in to a lovely spot by the sea - but things are too lonely! So Julia puts out a sign advertising space for Lost creatures, and boy do they show up in droves. The company is great, but the extra housework and messes not so much. How will Julia solve her problem and keep her new friends at her house?
Ribbit!
Rodrigo Folgueira, illustrated by Poly Bernatene
ISBN: 9780307981462
The frog family are distressed by a large pink visitor that only says "Ribbit!" and they work themselves (and a lot of rubbernecking forest creatures) up into a frenzy worrying about this strange pig and what terrible things it could possibly want with them. Finally the Wise Old Beetle offers some common sense, but it's too late for the frogs - or, maybe not? Are frogs afraid of heights? "Tweet tweet!"
If I Had a Gryphon
Vikki Vansickle, illustrated by Cale Atkinson
ISBN: 9781770498099
A dark brown girl laments in rhyming couplets about how ANY fantastical pet would be a better option than her current disappointing hamster. Until she gets a bit further into the scenarios, and realizes that perhaps a fantastical pet may have some significant downsides. Cute and quick, despite covering a lot of ground. Reads VERY fast.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Tuesday Storytime: Pigs in Strange Circumstances
Because JUST Pigs by themselves aren't nearly as fun to work with. :) Three excellent books, the storytime as a whole was a teensy bit long, but the individual stories (while long) had such good flow and interest value (at least for the parents) that they all went through quite well.
The Princess and the Pig
Jonathan Emmett, illustrated by Poly Bernatene
ISBN: 9780802723345
Junior Library Guild honor.
Love this book. Pigmella is a runt piglet rescued by a farmer at the market. Priscilla is the infant Princess. A dirty diaper and an inept Queen precipitate a mix-up between the two, which everyone tries to explain based on their preferred reading material, and then the story progresses as Pigmella (now a lovely girl in a loving family) blossoms, while Priscilla... well, she's just a pig. Bonus points for an illustration of the concept of putting lipstick on a pig for no real benefit. At the end, the honest farmers do try to set things right, but the royals will have none of it, and at least Pigmella has a happy ending.
Little Pink Pup
Johanna Kerby
ISBN: 9780399254352
nonfiction, photo-essay
I try to read nonfictions whenever I can, and I also try to use books with really nice photography as often as I can, so it's especially nice when the two converge. Not the most earthshaking plot, and the text is a little heavy-handed about the adoption./fosterchild overtones, but lovely sweet pictures illustrate the early life of the runty piglet Pink and his foster family of dogs. Cute, and longer than it seems at first.
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!
David McPhail
ISBN: 0525450793
sharp graphic style, lots of strange pigs, lots of stuff going on visually
I actually picked this book out as my keystone for this theme. I read it once before with a different theme (I think unwanted houseguests) and really enjoyed the poetry and flow and the sharp-edged illustrations. This is pretty common for me - I usually find one single book and think, ooooh! - and I picked it out in MARCH for a Pigs in Strange Circumstances storytime. Needless to say, the summer reading program didn't lend itself to pigs, and furthermore, the programming and otherwise busy library life kept me from even looking for companion books until last month. So, here it finally is, and I'm happy to say I loved reading it again, and thought that the overall theme was great fun. Here we start with the narrator slipping on a banana peel and falling, then experiencing a strange episode (or nightmare?) where pigs from far and wide converge on his home for a pizza party. Bizarre on the face of it, but a fun and quirky read.
The Princess and the Pig
Jonathan Emmett, illustrated by Poly Bernatene
ISBN: 9780802723345
Junior Library Guild honor.
Love this book. Pigmella is a runt piglet rescued by a farmer at the market. Priscilla is the infant Princess. A dirty diaper and an inept Queen precipitate a mix-up between the two, which everyone tries to explain based on their preferred reading material, and then the story progresses as Pigmella (now a lovely girl in a loving family) blossoms, while Priscilla... well, she's just a pig. Bonus points for an illustration of the concept of putting lipstick on a pig for no real benefit. At the end, the honest farmers do try to set things right, but the royals will have none of it, and at least Pigmella has a happy ending.
Little Pink Pup
Johanna Kerby
ISBN: 9780399254352
nonfiction, photo-essay
I try to read nonfictions whenever I can, and I also try to use books with really nice photography as often as I can, so it's especially nice when the two converge. Not the most earthshaking plot, and the text is a little heavy-handed about the adoption./fosterchild overtones, but lovely sweet pictures illustrate the early life of the runty piglet Pink and his foster family of dogs. Cute, and longer than it seems at first.
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!
David McPhail
ISBN: 0525450793
sharp graphic style, lots of strange pigs, lots of stuff going on visually
I actually picked this book out as my keystone for this theme. I read it once before with a different theme (I think unwanted houseguests) and really enjoyed the poetry and flow and the sharp-edged illustrations. This is pretty common for me - I usually find one single book and think, ooooh! - and I picked it out in MARCH for a Pigs in Strange Circumstances storytime. Needless to say, the summer reading program didn't lend itself to pigs, and furthermore, the programming and otherwise busy library life kept me from even looking for companion books until last month. So, here it finally is, and I'm happy to say I loved reading it again, and thought that the overall theme was great fun. Here we start with the narrator slipping on a banana peel and falling, then experiencing a strange episode (or nightmare?) where pigs from far and wide converge on his home for a pizza party. Bizarre on the face of it, but a fun and quirky read.
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