Reviewed by Erin Britton

A charmingly festive tale of creativity and friendship in the Far North

Accompanied by Erin O’Leary Brown’s delightful illustrations, JR Buchta’s North conveys the joy and possibility of spending special times with true friends.

According to this tale, “The North Wind, the North Star, and the Northern Lights have always been friends.” All three enjoy hanging out at the North Pole and having fun with the creatures that inhabit the frozen landscape, including reindeer, snowy owls, narwals, and polar bears. From light shows to carving shapes in the snow, there is plenty to entertain them.

However, “the Northern Lights wished aloud for some new friends,” and her companions agreed that it is always a good idea to make new friends. But how can they accomplish it? They think about the variety of creatures they would like to befriend—frogs, cats, cows, giraffes, and more—but none of them could cope with living at the North Pole.

“The North Star and the North Wind thought for a long time about how to make new friends as a surprise for the lonely Northern Lights.” While their plan initially has a few hiccups, they remain committed to finding some new pals for the beloved Northern Lights. After brainstorming what good friends are made of, do they finally know what it takes to succeed in their quest?

JR Buchta’s North is a funny and fun-filled picture book that brilliantly portrays the chaos and whimsy of the mythical chums’ attempts to make new friends. The message it conveys to young readers is important and heartwarming: keep old friends close but always be willing to welcome new pals into your circle.

The Far North setting and the emphasis on all the chilly, starry, and dazzling aspects of the environment—which are enchantingly captured by Erin O’Leary Brown in the illustrations that accompany each segment of text—really enhance the atmosphere of the story, highlighting its magical and cozy nature.

O’Leary Brown’s art is full of movement and color, serving to capture the attention of both older and younger readers. The use of watercolors adds a timeless quality to the images, which is very much in keeping with the tone and style of Buchta’s narrative.

The decision to feature the fabled North Wind, North Star, and Northern Lights as the central characters is innovative and intriguing, allowing for discussions about their traditional representations. O’Leary Brown’s images well capture their customary characteristics and Buchta’s dialogue brings their personalities to life.

The story should spark chats about what makes a good friend and what sorts of creatures it would be fun to befriend. Given its wintery feel and holiday-appropriate messaging—to say nothing of a particularly seasonal cameo—reading North would make a great addition to a family’s festive traditions.

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Reviewed by Erin Britton

A fun-filled learning lesson about trying, persevering, and supporting friends

Poppy’s Sweet Sibling Story, the seventh book in the Poppy the Toucan series, shares an important lesson through an exuberant chorus of song and dance.

Poppy the Toucan is strutting her stuff in the Mungo Bungo Jungle when she spies her friend Blue Sloppy Foot singing loudly and jumping about like a rockstar.

“His rhythms were strong and his wings did a flutter at the end of each beat. His foot moves were a bit sloppy… but that’s what made them so unique and cool.”

She also spots his younger sister, Suzie Blue Foot, nervously watching the fun from the sidelines. Poppy asks if Suzie would like to join in and is shocked to learn that Suzie is too scared to do so in case she is no good and people laugh at her.

“How do you know what you’re good at if you haven’t even tried?”

Determined to help Suzie overcome her fear and see if she enjoys singing and dancing, Poppy explains the folly of quitting and failing before even trying something new, and she tells the motivational story of the Can-Can basketball team:

“Remember our team the Can-Cans?
They weren’t always the Can-Cans.
They started out as the Cannots
because they were so bad at first!”

Just as the Can-Cans persevered and improved through patience and practice, Poppy suggests that she and Suzie join forces—with Poppy singing and Suzie dancing—to see how much fun they can have. “Now I warn you, I don’t have a great voice, but I promise to sing my heart out anyway and have a wonderful time.” And her plan works!

While the other jungle creatures do initially laugh at the duo’s musical efforts, they quickly decide to join in with them, “and soon enough everyone was hopping up and down and dancing to the rhythms.” And what’s more, Suzie’s newfound confidence and willingness to try fresh things lead to some very exciting opportunities.

Poppy’s Sweet Sibling Story offers a joyful celebration of the benefits of helping friends and working together to have fun and achieve unexpected milestones. While it is the seventh book starring Poppy the Toucan, Madelyn Simon’s canny characterization means that Poppy feels instantly familiar and a joy to be around.

In fact, with all her exuberance, bravery, and zest for life, Poppy is an inspirational role model for young readers. She instantly spots when a friend is in need of help and having her confidence built up, and she’s willing to risk embarrassment to ensure that Suzie doesn’t become stuck in a rut and miss out on the possibility of enjoyment and success.

The moral behind Poppy’s Sweet Sibling Story is clear—never avoid pursuing an interest due to fear and always be willing to help a friend in need—but the story wears its educational aspect lightly. Simon ensures that the story is fun and funny the whole way through. Poppy’s antics are definitely going to entertain youngsters and the people reading with them.

Michael Sherman’s vibrant illustrations enhance the story greatly, particularly when conveying the chaotic movement and compelling joy of Poppy and Suzie’s musical endeavors. It’s no wonder the other jungle animals feel the urge to join in! The color and detail bring the scenes to life and will certainly hold young readers’ attention.

Poppy’s Sweet Sibling Story presents a cheery and hilarious adventure for Poppy the Toucan and her friends, revealing how a spot of bravery can have major consequences and lead in surprising directions. Little readers will love the book’s zany exploits, and older readers will be glad it instills a sense of confidence and a boosted self-esteem.

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Reviewed by Erin Britton

A heartfelt story about the need for empathy and understanding

Salty Tears, written by Jaime Testaiuti and illustrated by Nadia Ronquillo, is a meaningful story about recognizing the similarities among people rather than focusing solely on the differences.

Siblings Ari and Mo are looking forward to going on holiday with their parents. However, Ari is “feeling nervous because she would be sitting next to the new boy joining her class when they returned.” Despite the excitement, her nervousness seems to permeate the family’s trip, with both Ari and Mo being beset with concerns and fears about the new people they meet.

For example, when they decide to visit a museum, after having fun playing in a treehouse and making ice cream sundaes, Mo exclaims “Look at those scary people in sheets!” And Ari shares his fear: “You can only see their eyes!” Fortunately, their mother quells their fear by explaining that the women are wearing hijabs for religious and cultural reasons.

Yet later, when the family go to a pizzeria, Ari and Mo notice “a man next to them who looked very old but was as short as they were!” They wonder aloud what has caused the man to shrink and feel sad that he can barely reach the counter. This time, their mother explains that the man was born that way.

Ari and Mo have many such encounters during their holiday, including meeting a young girl with no legs, a boy who wears a medical device to monitor his diabetes, a woman with no hair, and a family wearing another kind of religious garb. Each time they question a person’s visible difference, their parents stress that the person is “just like us and cries salty tears.”

Salty Tears uses Ari and Mo’s experiences during their trip to educate young readers about the importance of acceptance and realizing that all people have differences and similarities. It would have been helpful if their parents had pointed out that it is rude to comment on a person’s appearance, but the message of the story is still thoughtful.

Ari and Mo have lived a rather sheltered life prior to their holiday—most young children will have met people with disabilities, differences, and religious affiliations before—but Jaime Testaiuti does a good job of explaining that their fears come from newness, not necessarily because they are scary. This is a useful lesson for youngsters in a story like this.

As their parents explain the likely reasons for their new friends’ visible differences, Ari and Mo gain a better understanding of the wide variety of people in the world, and Ari is able to apply this when she returns to school. Testaiuti highlights how everyone has fears and how it is important to learn and show kindness in order to overcome them.

Some of the explanations that the parents provide, particularly concerning chemotherapy and the treatment for diabetes, cause some pages of Salty Tears to feature a fair bit of text and more complex vocabulary than picture books generally do.

The accompanying illustrations help to ensure that youngsters’ attention does not wander, however, with Nadia Ronquillo’s bright and appealing art showing what Ari and Mo initially perceive and then how their perspective changes as they learn more about people. The vibrant pictures really capture the imagination and will likely prompt interesting discussions.

Salty Tears is a sincere and charmingly illustrated story about the dangers of pre-judgement and allowing fear to take hold before knowing the truth about a situation. As Ari and Mo learn more about the importance of diversity, equality, and inclusion, young readers will also learn the same valuable lessons.

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Reviewed by Joelene Pynnonen

Science meets whimsy in this enchanting, adventurous children’s picture book.

Maddy loves science. Clouds, planets, stars. More than anything, she loves the moon. She knows all of its phases. How it waxes and wanes, rises with the night and falls with the day. The fingernail moon catches her imagination most of all. A mere sliver of a moon, hanging in the night-time sky, seeming close enough to ride on.

Maddy knows that it isn’t. She knows that it is thousands of miles away. Unreachable. Until one day, the fingernail moon appears outside her window, larger than life and close enough to touch. It has heard all the things Maddy has said about it, and it wants to meet the little girl who loves it so much. Even better, the fingernail moon wants to go on an adventure!

The FingerNail Moon is a picture book with in-depth, whimsical ideas that would suit children three and older with more developed attention spans. It’s a wonderful introduction for children into the magic of science. Curious kids will love to learn about the phases of the moon, the different types of clouds, and the planets in our solar system as they explore with Maddy. This is the perfect book to encourage aspiring little scientists to explore and question the world around them in a fun, engaging way.

As with all picture books, the writing only makes up a fraction of the whole. The illustrations are something that the tale hangs on. Luckily, in The FingerNail Moon they fit perfectly with the story. At the start, the writing holds its own space, but as the book progresses, the illustrations begin washing over the writing as though, like Maddy, the book itself cannot contain its enchantment with the Universe, stars, galaxies, and planets. The Universe is rendered in watercolor-like pastels, less stark and solid than the characters in the story. It’s a lovely way to show the deep contrast between the magic of the galaxy and the solidity of Maddy and her friends.

Rather than treating science as a clinical, abstract subject, this book leans into the irresistible charm of seeing the world through the eyes of someone with boundless curiosity and excitement. Making science an adventure rather than a chore. For the kids who have outgrown the Baby University series, this is a great book to move on to.

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

Float on a wave of imagination in this vibrant children’s book.

Julian and Ethan are bouncy chipmunk brothers who are always ready for adventure. Lucky for them, Mama is taking them to the museum today.

Lively and excitable, this chipmunk duo hops on a trolley and bounds into the museum expecting one thing only to receive another. They visit portraits and statues, busts and still-life paintings, and they’ve got questions aplenty. And Mama’s got answers. It’s all educational—until it becomes more than that.

Julian and Ethan are excellent role models for how you’d want your kid to approach a day at the museum. They are curious, open-minded, and willing to let their imagination invigorate the trip. This is a book that educates—like about the lack of cameras for portraits back in the day—but also illustrates the magic of imagination.

And speaking of illustrations…The Chubby Bubbies Trip to the Museum is elevated by its vibrant images by Irene Silvino. The chipmunks surf on a colorful wave of imagination from the left side of each page to the right, invoking the image of a ride that will take you to magical places. Imagination is captured so enticingly in this book that many little readers will feel excited at the prospect of riding their own imaginations after reading it.

“The real magic comes when you let your imagination guide you.”

The story can feel a bit transparently educational and inspirational, rather than focused on storytelling, but the characters are bright enough and the illustrations are exciting enough to keep young readers returning to it. It also feels like a surprising choice to call them “chubby,” but not necessarily depict them that way in the illustrations.

When Julian and Ethan are fully swept away into their imaginations, they step into the paintings at the museum and start to rhyme as they do it. I loved this subtle change in the storytelling, where not only are the chipmunks exploring new territory, but they’re experimenting with language and making it fun. This could be a fun conversation to have with your little one—about noticing the sudden rhymes—and then launching into your own imagination-filled rhymes with them.

The Chubby Bubbies Trip to the Museum is a fun-filled trolley ride into imagination land. This could be a great companion book to pair with your own trip to the museum with the kiddos.

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

A warmhearted picture book about healing through grief together

How do you explain loss to a child? Especially big loss. The biggest. Little Bear and the Big Hole has lost his Papa Bear, and there’s a hole where Papa used to stand. A real, literal hole. He sits at the edge of the hole and cries, looking into it and hating it day after day.

Nobody seems to see it other than him either, until Squirrel comes along. She walks carefully past it, sits down beside him, and glares into it. It turns out—she’s seen it before too, back when her sister died. Little Bear and the Big Hole by Jennifer Seal is the story of how Squirrel shows up for Little Bear, how Little Bear learns to accept the hole and pour love into it in order for life—new life—to emerge.

Children experience deep, complicated sadness even when we don’t think they’re ready for it. Life comes at everyone, unfortunately, and the possibility of death will greet them in stories, movies, and life early on. So how can we show them that there is hope and love beyond this sadness and grief?

If you’re going to read a book to your child about grief, make it this one. This is a powerful story with bighearted characters and concepts that demonstrate how grief isn’t the end of the road. It does hit you with the death of Papa Bear right away, so be ready to tackle it on page one.

The whole concept of the big hole is done to perfection. There’s something missing inside, and it’s almost impossible to avoid it. And yet, we look the same on the outside; no one can even tell you’re dealing with something so big.

But at least we have each other. This book is an important reminder that, even when it feels like we’re alone, we can still lean on other people. Squirrel is a terrifically loving character who doesn’t ask anything of Little Bear. She just sits with him, plays with him, talks with him, and tells him that what he’s doing is okay. She doesn’t say it’s going to get better. She lets time heal the big hole.

They create art and write letters and sing songs to the hole, filling it with the love\nthat’s missing now that Papa Bear is gone. There are real lessons to be learned in this moving story. Death and grief are big topics that will have to be broached at some point. If you or your little one feel ready, it’s important to read the right books and stories about it. Like this one.

The illustrations are colorful, creative, and clean, and they provide context to a story that depends on a metaphor to understand it on the deepest level. Jennifer Seal and illustrator Mirjam Siim have conjured up a special kind of magic with Little Bear and the Big Hole.

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

A meaningful story about the equilibrium of our planet

Harry the High’s got the good stuff. He brings the sunshine and warm weather. He’s responsible for the kind of perfect summer days that every kid dreams about—the ones filled with swimming pools, popsicles, and playing outside.

Larry the Low, meanwhile, brings the bad weather. The rain, the harsh wind, the destructive storms. He may as well be the inspiration for the song, “Rain rain go away, come again another day.”

But Harry the High thinks the Larry the Low should never come back again. He even tells Larry that nobody likes him and that he should leave forever, so that’s just what Larry the Low does.

Without Larry, Harry learns that he’s capable of bringing his own destruction. Things get too hot on Earth. Crops and vegetation dry out and die, and people are in danger. It’s Mother Nature who must step in and assure these weather heroes that they’re both needed. Playing the role as the sensical judge, Mother Nature explains that the world is an equilibrium of highs and lows, of ebbs and flows, of rain and shine.

The book imparts an important, relevant message for all kids. It’s easy to see gray, rainy days as wasted hours stuck inside, but this bookillustrates just how much we need both to keep a healthy ecosystem. We need rain like we need sun. Parents will be glad to have this book to discuss why gray days happen and why they don’t have to be seen as purely disappointing.

But the book’s art stands in the way of making best use of this story. Characters’ bodies get warped, sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable, and scenes appear as nonsensical, like random shapes in the background or sweat dripping down a t-shirt. The art styles change from page to page, too. More observant kids will notice issues like Mother Nature’s incomplete spectacles, Harry’s smudging face, and background characters without clearly defined faces.

Harry the High is also pretty darn cruel. He tells Larry that he sucks and that he should disappear forever. While meanness like this is real, it could also be introducing younger kids to the language they could use to really hurt another person’s feelings.

In the end, Harry the High Versus Larry the Low comes with a strong message. This book could be a good choice for parents looking to pair nonfiction topics of weather and science with a useful story about the delicate balance of rain and shine.

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

The sweetly rhyming story of one lovable pug and a madness of marmots

Anybody who’s ever seen a pug knows: that grumpy-looking ball of fur loves cuddles and belly rubs and getting spoiled. So when Paula, a comfortable pug with a cushy life in a palace, gets sent into the mountains, she’s hoping for more of the same.

But what she finds there isn’t cushiness and cuddles; it’s a grumpy-looking man and a bunch townspeople who don’t think pugs belong up here. 

“Where were the comforts she’d come to expect? 

The absence of cuddles did not seem correct.”

She’s lonely in this new place, but lucky for her, all she has to do is venture outside to find companionship and a kind-of yummy meal. “Life is much brighter / when you’re sharing a meal.” A madness of marmots welcomes Paula with open arms, old cheese, and a rotting sandwich, and they help her feel at home in the woods. And surprisingly, they even play a funny role in breaking down the walls of that grumpy-looking human taking care of Paula.

The Pug Who Didn’t Belong shines most in its poetry. As a parent, you’ll read plenty of rhyming books out loud, and you’ll tell quickly which ones disrupt your flow and which ones float off the tongue. This book’s rhymes don’t just float; they fly. From page one, we ride on rhythm and read about funny behavior in quick pages and with ease. You’ll zip through the lines naturally and even smile while reading the current line about the previous one’s execution. When the rhyme scheme does break, it’s often because it’s a turning point in the story. This is a poet’s book for kids.

The concept of sharing a meal is also one of my favorite themes in recent kids’ book history. We can learn a lot about life by looking at animals. Food is a shared survival need in so many, even if it looks (or smells) different for some creatures. This book promotes food sharing in kids too, and it’s a great way to build community. I’d love it if my kid recommended we feed their next playmate thanks to this book.

It’s not so much a story about a pug who doesn’t belong as it is about a plucky little pug who finds companionship in an unlikely new place. The scene where the townspeople laugh at Paula is perhaps the only one I didn’t love in the whole book. Paula is resilient and brave and sweet and just needs a little love from a madness of marmots. (Am I upset that I learned that a group of marmots is called a “madness” from this kid’s book? Not even a smidge!)

Truly one of the best rhyming kids’ books I’ve read in a long time, The Pug Who Didn’t Belong would be an excellent choice for parents with pugs and kids who are ready to learn about making a home wherever they go.

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

A creative adventure about your favorite plucky punctuation marks

Exclamation point is fed up! Period is over it. Comma is, you guessed it, misused and under-appreciated. And how is question mark feeling? Does anyone even care?

After falling out of a book in the lighthouse library, this punctuation team decides that they need a vacation. So exclamation point places his finger on a random spot on the map—and lucky for them, it’s the Island of Fun. 

But unlucky for them, sailing comes with about as many problems as you could imagine for a small group of grammar heroes. On their paper sailboat, the team sets across the sea only to lose one of their own in a giant wave. They even get knocked around by a giant shark. But eventually, the team washes ashore. 

They’re glad to be here, but when they meet Pilcrow, an outdated punctuation mark from the time period when we needed to show a paragraph break, they learn that they’ve arrived at the Island of Chaos, a place where animal-like creatures are spouting sentences and questions without any punctuation. It’s chaotic to say the least.

They might be on vacation, but it’s time to get to work.

Punctuation to the Rescue is a wonderfully cute educational story with sparkling illustrations. Illustrator Sara Not really brings these characters to life with visible personalities, but it’s author Cheryl Olsten who capitalizes on the little things, like the way the punctuation marks always use their own punctuation in their dialogue. When Exclamation Point talks, he shouts! When Comma says something, he takes an extra pause. This small detail is among my favorites of the execution of this story.

The sailing adventure is also a blast. With the help of Sara Not’s colorful illustrations, the waves on the sea provide an eye-full of entertaining things to look at. The waves are ginormous and swirling. Even when they get to the Island of Chaos, the characters are drawn with such personality that you can’t help but love their plucky selves.

The story has a strong educational base where kids can definitely gain knowledge about the proper use of punctuation. I’m glad the punctuation marks get to put their powers to use and that the characters are rewarded with love and appreciation—it fits since the punctuation marks feel under-appreciated at the beginning of the story—but the message sometimes gets lost in the events that happen, like when Period spills overboard, when the shark attacks, and when the animals on the Island of Chaos ask for ice cream with sprinkles. 

Kids who are just starting to learn about punctuation marks will get the most out of this educational story. They’ll learn first-hand how important it is to un-jumble a series of words and use proper punctuation, and they’ll do it with some fun characters and lively illustrations by their side.

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

A valuable, community-driven story about achieving calmness and sleep for kids

Leo might be in third grade, but he’s suffering from something so many people—old and young, you and me—struggle with: a lack of sleep due to an overactive mind. There are so many things to do tomorrow. How can we possibly stop thinking and sleep?

For Leo, many of his thoughts are related to school, sports, and his new favorite club: The Kids Can Club. Gathering in his backyard treehouse, he and a few of his friends eat snacks and plan missions to help those who need it in their community. Sometimes that means helping new kids at school feel welcome, and others they’re helping an adult tend to her garden. This is the kind of club you wish your kid would get into.

When Leo starts falling asleep in class and on the goalpost on the soccer field, he knows it’s time to enlist the help of his friends. It turns out—Iris, another girl in the club, has struggled with sleep too. But her mom had an excellent strategy for helping her calm down and get some rest. Would he like to try it? 

Soon, Leo and the gang gather at Iris’s house to learn from their mom and, hopefully, make a change for the better.

This is one of those rare kids’ books that’s infused with self-help tips while it tells an interesting story of a lovable kid. Iris’s solution is what some grown-ups might call “Progressive Muscle Relaxation,” but to Iris, it’s “Scrunch Up Five—Unscrunch.” 

At Iris’s house, the kids lie down and focus on tightening muscles in their body for five seconds, breathing, and then releasing. It’s a powerful strategy that is easy to replicate and see the benefits of. That much is clear the moment Leo falls asleep right there on Iris’s floor.

The Scrunch-Up exercise is outlined in detail and is given multiple pages of enactment. By mirroring the time and breathwork required to do it, the book teaches kids to slow down and give the practice its due time just while reading the book. Parents, guardians, and teachers will be encouraged to mimic the physical activities with their little ones, the ultimate teaching moment to practice what you preach. Parents are going to be glad to have a tool like this at their disposal. 

One potential downfall to this, too, is that the action gets a little repetitive on the page. We follow through on multiple scrunch & unscrunch exercises, which means we read a lot of the same stuff. Since it’s a reading experience that’s best combined with the physical activity itself, this makes sense, but it does result in a few extra pages than is needed to tell the story.

Sleep is such an incredibly important facet to our mental and physical health, and that goes double for kids. If your child is clearly having a hard time sleeping, this could be the answer you’re looking for. And since it’s got such a community-driven message, you’ll be doubling up on its usage—teaching sleep strategies and encouraging helping others.

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