Everybody Was a Baby Once : and Other Poems
Added to the Lisbon Public Library in celebration of the birth of Myles Johnathan Wohlleb.
The Pencil
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Israel Robert Boutin Roman Cruz. Kirkus Reviews: In this distant cousin to Harold and the Purple Crayon, a pencil draws a smiling boy (previously met in Ahlberg and Ingman's Runaway Dinner, 2006) and names him "Banjo." At Banjo's behest the pencil adds and names a […]
The Runaway Dinner
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. With a plot timed faster than fast food and illustrations that keep pace, this picture book about a dinner that literally runs away is a comic treat. Like a cowboy spinning a fireside tall tale as if it were true, Ahlberg's (The Jolly Postman) unseen narrator sprinkles the story with […]
The Snail House
School Library Journal Review: K-Gr 3-Sitting on the steps of a country farmhouse after a full day of strawberry picking, Grandma weaves a tale of fantasy for Michael, Hannah, and the baby. "Once upon a long, long time ago there was a boy and his sister and their little baby brother who all of a […]