"In picture books, Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, the author-illustrator team behind We're Going on a Bear Hunt, collaborate again on the exuberant Oh Dear, Look What I Got! (Walker), in which a shopping trip is beset by rhyming errors (a parrot for a carrot, a snake for a cake). It all results in an ever more despairing refrain: Do I want that? No I do not! Oxenbury's joyfully expressive huddles of animal and human characters heighten the sense of mayhem in this bouncy, cumulative"
"More seriously, Annie Booker's The Great Bear (Two Hoots) is a lyrical, haunting story of the polar bear spirit that protects the oceans, and the human greed that threatens their rich life. This beautiful debut is both urgent and hopeful, its trailing kelp and luminous green waters contrasting vividly with black-smudge smoke and the choking cables of crammed fishing nets."
"Another poetic, uplifting illustrated book for 5+ is Firefly (Magic Cat) by Robert Macfarlane and Luke Adam Hawker. Hawker's densely textured images blaze even in black and white, as Macfarlane's stirring verse guides the reader on a metaphorical journey through winter darkness to a dream field illuminated by fireflies, and onwards through supernovae in a blinding resurgence of light and hope (Bec"
Joyous picture books mix playful language and expressive illustrations to create read-aloud energy and cumulative mayhem. Oh Dear, Look What I Got! features a shopping trip beset by comical rhyming errors and an escalating refrain of refusal. The Great Bear presents a lyrical polar bear spirit guarding oceans against human greed, contrasting trailing kelp and green waters with black-smudge smoke and choking fishing-net cables. This Is Who I Am celebrates immigrant identity through cultural markers, resilience against racism and ties to shared history. Firefly uses dense monochrome imagery and stirring verse to guide a metaphorical journey from winter darkness to a resurgence of light and hope.
#childrens-literature #picture-books #identity--multiculturalism #environmental-conservation #illustration
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