Reviews
Elki Is Not My Dog
“Surely the next best thing to having a dog of your own is having a lovable stray as your playmate. . . . While Elki’s own story remains a mystery, detailed illustrations by Tonka Uzu give us a peek into the world of her human companions. There’s a pleasing Busytown-like quality to View →
Lionel Is Just Like Dad
Éric Veillé celebrates the father-son bond by presenting a stylized lion and his cub performing similar actions in “Lionel Is Just Like Dad,” a board book for babies and toddlers. “Dad combs his hair. So does Lionel,” we read in text translated from the French by… View →
Good Night, Good Beach
“Exudes the satisfactions of a salt-sprayed holiday.”—The Wall Street Journal View →
The Bear and the Wildcat
“[A] forward-looking book for children who have loved and lost.”—Wall Street Journal View →
A Perfect Wonderful Day with Friends
“[A] calm, happy, perfect, wonderful day that young readers and their parents will find almost as nice as the real thing.”—Wall Street Journal View →
Chelm for the Holidays
“Hannukah is just one of 10 Jewish occasions that get the comic treatment in ‘Chelm for the Holidays’ (Kar-Ben, 68 pages, $15.99), a collection of new and old tall tales by Valerie Estelle Frankel. Set in Chelm, the ‘village of fools’ of Eastern European… View →
“Motherly consolation meets folkloric Indian artwork in ’You’re Safe With Me,’ a picture book by Chitra Soundar with striking illustrations by Poonam Mistry.”—Wall Street Journal View →
“This is a terrific little book that will amuse all out of proportion to its size.”—The Wall Street Journal View →
Timeline: A Visual History of Our World
“As much as you want to pore over each busy historical tableau, identifying mordant little characters and reading brief lines of text, you may want to rush forward to see what comes next.”—Wall Street Journal (US), January 2016 View →