Larf by ashley spires5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() “All the activity, all the people and all the noise was making things worse. He does his best to fit in (he’s “a master of camouflage,” after all), but with fur and feet like that, strangers tend to take notice. Curiosity – and the possibility of hanging out with someone of his own kind – makes him reluctantly head out of the wilds … Until … reading the newspaper one morning, he sees an article claiming the upcoming appearance of a sasquatch in the nearby city. ![]() Nobody knows that Larf exists, and “he likes it that way.” He lives with his bunny-friend Eric somewhere far in the snow-capped mountains. He’s a seven-foot-tall vegetarian who has a preference for red scarves. Larf thinks he might be the world’s only sasquatch. Re-entry always requires maintaining a sense of humor! As we leave the wild mountains and head back to (so-called) civilization this morning, I’m convinced that Ashley Spires‘ Larf captures that disorienting journey just right, with lots of easy laughter offered on every page. ![]()
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Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() A charming paean to the adoration (and accessories) that families lavish on their offspring. just as they are!""), it's Frazee's canny wit that tips the work away from sentimentality to evoke a wide range of emotions. MARLA FRAZEE has illustrated many acclaimed picture books, some of which she also wrote. Rhyming text in smaller type elaborates on each theme: e.g., to ""Every day, everywhere, babies are carried "" Meyers adds, ""in backpacks, in front packs, in slings, and in strollers, in car seats, and bike seats, and on Daddy's shoulders."" As Meyers builds to the expected coda (babies being ""loved for trying so hard, for traveling so far, for being so wonderful. SUSAN MEYERS is the author of Everywhere Babies, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Marla Frazee, and many other picture books. ""Every day, everywhere,"" as each spread announces in hand-lettered display type, babies are either collecting kisses, getting schlepped, exhausting their parents (a state that Frazee portrays with knowing and hilarious precision), toddling or growing. The pages that follow prove that ministering to babies is all-pervasive as well. ![]() ""Every day, everywhere, babies are born,"" writes Meyers (Hello Jenny), as Frazee (The Seven Silly Eaters) presents the first in a series of wry, elegant watercolor vignettes: a row of multiracial, swaddled newborns whose expressions range from ""How did I get here?"" to utter boredom. ![]() We were the lucky ones by georgia hunter5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Together and separately the many family members - grandmother and grandfather, numerous adult children and their partners, and grandchildren - encounter a wide range of circumstances, including living in the ghetto being forced to work in Nazi Germany’s factories and farms serving in the resistance going into hiding in private homes, a Catholic school, and in plain sight with false identification serving in various countries’ militaries being abused in prison struggling against the cold in Siberia and emigrating from Europe both during and after the fighting. 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