Big new titles perfect for the littles.
Is This…Easter? by Helen Yoon (Candlewick Press). There’s an egg in the yard! What should the playful pups do with it? Well, there’s a bit of disagreement in that department. “You don’t EAT the egg. You PAINT it!” insists one wide-eyed faction. “Why on earth would anyone paint an omelet?” counters the other, hungrier contingent. “Because it’s Easter,” explains the first. Hmm…maybe the enormous brown bear — sporting tiny white bunny ears — can show them how to have their (Easter) egg and eat it, too.
Oops! Rabbit by Jo Ham (Candlewick Studio). Rabbit stands on the chair to paint, then oops! Rabbit falls off. Rabbit perches atop the sand building a castle, then oops! A wave knocks rabbit off. Rabbit turns the water on for a bath, then oops! The bubbles go crazy until the faucet is turned off. The action may be simple in this spare, straightforward story, but the black-silhouette bunny set against the white and vibrant pink of the surrounding world makes for a starkly (and surprisingly) beautiful tale.
Before the Seed: How Pollen Moves by Susannah Buhrman-Deever (author) and Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius (illustrators) (MIT Kids Press). “We live in a world of green, of fields and forests filled with plants that grow…from seeds. But before the seeds grow the green…pollen needs to move.” Find out how it does in this fact-packed, kid-friendly look at the various roles plants and animals play in getting pollen where it needs to go to bring us the blossoms that make springtime so magical.
