Man, was this book fun. Aaron Blabey’s 2015 picture book Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas features vivid, wonderfully ridiculous images. The piranhas in this book have bulging eyes, protruding lips, and underbites, like something out of Monty Python. (I want to know if he’s a Terry Gilliam fan.) The situation is pure picture book: it is […]
What the Seal Saw
Sherry McMillan’s 2011 picture book What the Seal Saw is a quiet, unified pleasure. The pages with words on them all have four lines; in each case, the second and fourth line rhyme. In each quatrain, three of the lines are flat and even. The fourth line curves up and down like a wave, giving […]
If You Want a Librarian To Like You…
If you want a librarian to like you, check out “R” is for Research. (Mine stopped checking out my books to look over, and gently caress, this book.) “R” is for Research is–wait for it–an introduction to research that is also an alphabet book AND a rhyming book. Author Toni Buzzeo starts with “A” for […]