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Frans Vischer will be in the Children's Room tomorrow to read his book Fuddles to help us celebrate National Library Week.
Join us Thursday, 4/16 at 4-5 p.m. for this author program.
His books will for be available for purchase through Once Upon a Time Bookstore.
For more information contact us at: 818-548-2035
Central Library - Children's Room
222 E. Harvard St.
Glendale, CA 91205
* This event will be in place of our weekly Art Cart.
Over the years Dan Santat has put out some amazing illustrated works for different authors. His two latest ones are Picture Day Perfection by Deborah Diesen and Oh No! Not Again by Mac Barnett.
It's hard sometimes to match an author's words with the right illustrations. Sometimes you read a book and think how much better it would be if only it had different pictures or the pictures are great but the story could be better. Well, whoever put these two authors with Dan Santat made beautiful matches.
In Picture Day Perfection, you're reading along thinking that this poor kid is having a run of really bad luck on this most important day, picture day. The boy has the perfect combination of horrible disasters happen all the way up to the time it's his turn to have his picture taken . It turned out PERFECT... according to his mom.
In this sequel to Oh No! or How I Destroyed the World, a girl builds a time machine in order to get a better grade in her history project, but the invention winds up being taken for a joy ride and her plan fails fantastically.
The stories are fun but coupled with Santat's illustrations, these stories were hilarious and picture book perfect, as are his other works, Crankenstein, Dog in Charge, Tom's Tweet, and so on.
For readers from preschool and up.
CALDECOTT WORTHY?
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown has Mr. Tiger, a very civilized animal from the city, deciding that he needs to cut loose a bit. Little by little he goes WILD! Beautifully illustrated animals throughout the book look on and even join in Mr. Tiger's journey of self exploration.
Our next Caldecott contender is all about a red knitted hat in Red Hat by Lita Judge. Like her previous book Red Sled, a slew of adorable animal characters try on the red hat but it can only fit one special head. An adorable story beautifully illustrated with a vibrant red color. If you enjoyed Klassen's book, This is Not My Hat, you will love this one.
Flora and the Flamingo
wordless
exquisite
glowing
by Molly Idle
Mr. Wuffles
almost wordless
playful
hilarious
thrilling
by David Wiesner
We're having a book launch with Janet and Jake Tashijian at the Central Library on MAY 8th at 4PM. Co-host and local bookstore, Once Upon a Time will have books available for sale. Come and meet this great mother and son writing team and check out their new book, My Life as a Cartoonist. I know there are readers out there who have been waiting anxiously for the latest sequel.
