The singer and the scientist By: Lisa Rose
Publication Date: April 2021 32 pages
This is such a good and warm book. Singer Marian Anderson can stand on stage and sing but can’t be bothered by whites while off the stage. All because the color of her skin, Noone acts as though she is alive. It just so happened Albert Einstein was in the front row and offered her a room in his house when she had no place to stay. The became fast friends. This would be wonderful for a read a loud in a classroom.
It’s in His Kiss By: Julia Quinn (Bridgerton Book 7)
This is the story of Hyacinth and her love life. This is now one of my favorites. Hyacinth in the last of the girls and 7th in line in the Bridgerton clan. Hyacinth finds herself falling for Gareth St. Claire. He is hated by his father and him and Hyacinth help him to discover his true identity.
The No-Cook Cookbook Recipes By: Rebecca Woollard
Publication Date: March 2021
128 pages
This is the best book!! This book shows you how to do the little things like using a grater, removing avocado pits, and how to handle a sharp knife. Each recipe give the names of tools needed, ingredients, and an easy step by step recipe. This book also shows you how to grow your own vegetables. There is even a glossary of words that you use when using a recipe. This would be such a good book for a child that wants to learn to cook.
by Susan Hughes
Publication Date: June 1, 2021
32 pages
Victor is seeing how different girls and boys were treated in the village. Since they were eight now, he went to school, while his sister, Linesi fetches water at least five times during the day with a bucket without going to school. Victor’s teacher begins to speak about equality and asks the students to see how it is shown in their own lives. Victor comes up with a plan to allow it all to work out. No spoilers, but it just shows the love for family and the need for education. The illustrations is something that I also loved. You felt like you were there with Victor and Linesi in their everyday life.
by Scott Riley, illus. by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien
Publication: March 2021 40 Pages
This is a book that shows how hard work pays off. A group of boy who love to play soccer, They work so hard in getting to the soccer tournament. They way that they live and are together help them in playing such a good game in the tournament. I loved the illustrations. It made you feel like you were with the boys every step of the way.
Publication Date: March 2021
72 Pages
This is best book for showing the differences in sleep habits. This would be a good classroom library book for someone who has a hard time falling asleep to read. This book goes through as a cat, in the different kinds of beds to even what exactly what happens to your body when you fall asleep. This book had so much information that I thought I knew, but I really didn’t!! How animals sleep, to what nighttime workers do. The illustrations are wonderful and allow you to see what happens when you sleep and when you can’t.
by Kendall Lanning, BA, CCLS
Publication Date: July 2021
34 Pages
This is a wonderful book to give to a grieving child. Counselors should have this in their room to read to children as well. Fox and Cardinal are friends. Cardinal won’t be with fox forever. Cardinal shows Fox how they will be together forever, through memories, and feathers being found. I loved how the author also put a note at the end to parents and also a list of how each age group shows grief. The illustrator did such a wonderful and beautiful job at the pretty pictures.
by Vita Murrow
Publication: March 2, 2021
18 Pages
This is a sweet story about a koala and surviving a fire. Thunder and lightning begins a forest fire, were a koala and it’s family is rescued. They are placed back when everything is better again. The best thing about this book is the illustrations.
My Silly Illy by Campbell Dwyer
Publication Date: March 15, 2021
14 Pages
This is the best book!! I am a special ed one on one para pro that works with a child with an ostomy bag. It is wonderful for a book to be around for a child just like him!! I would recommend this book for every classroom as a read aloud or used individually for children who don’t realize that children are different in many ways.
Back to the book, it shows different children and where they live and how they interact with having a bag. There is also a wonderful note at the end of the book to the parents of said children, for them to receive a pick me up that they don’t often get when having a child with different needs.
By: Julia Cook
32 Pages
This is the sweetest book!! I would recommend this book as a read aloud in the classroom or to have as a book to read to your children!! Father raindrop is helping his son be ready to drop down from the clouds. It goes through all the ways he is nervous, if it will hurt, or what will he land on!! The illustrations are wonderful. It makes it look like the drops are real and you the colors used are beautiful.
Reading becomes a pattern 