by Kim Jacobs | Jun 26, 2021 | Books
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Where did the cows find a typewriter? How did they learn to type? These questions never get answered, but it doesn’t make any difference in this irreverent and slyly funny book. The cows (and eventually the hens) have decided...
by Kim Jacobs | Jun 26, 2021 | Books
The Book With No Pictures The Book with No Pictures from B.J. Novak won’t win awards for its illustrations. True to the title, there are none. Yet a book with no pictures can still be wildly entertaining and worth reading over and over. There also isn’t...
by Kim Jacobs | Jun 26, 2021 | Books
The Poppy Lady The Poppy Lady tells the true story of how Moina Belle Michael, a Georgia schoolteacher who worked to establish the red poppy as a symbol for soldiers all over the world. When Americans entered World War I in 1917, Moina devoted herself to helping the...
by Kim Jacobs | Jun 19, 2021 | Books
The Paper Bag Princess Princess Elizabeth has a pretty good life—until a dragon shows up, destroying the castle (and all her clothes) and taking her future husband, Prince Ronald, back to its cave. But Elizabeth isn’t the...
by Kim Jacobs | Jun 19, 2021 | Books
And Tango Makes Three And Tango Makes Three is a very sweet picture book telling the true story of Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins in the Central Park Zoo in New York City. In 1998, they became an inseparable couple and incubated an egg (a second egg laid by...