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tagged: alphabet, artist, featured, girls, kids book, New York Times Best Illustrated book, watercolorstwo books that make me giddy
Welcome to the continuing saga of my obsession with really great kids’ books.
Today- Carmine, A Little More Red by Melissa Sweet
Oh! The artwork….GORGEOUS! The colors are enchanting and I love that she’s done this with watercolors. This book is also sweetly clever and a big draw for the DOF because Carmine is an artist!
Imagine!
Carmine appeals to the huge word nerd in me, AND there’s even a recipe at the end!
What else to end an alphabet book, but alphabet soup?
It’s like the author knows me…….
And- Odd Velvet by Mary E. Whitcomb ( illus. Tara Calahan King)
The illustrations are charming, but what I really find endearing is the story itself.
Velvet isn’t really odd, so much as she is smart, imaginative, and curious. The kids at her school think her name is odd..and when they have show and tell, Velvet brings a milkweed pod, rather than a doll as the other girls had.
But the very best part, the part that should resonate with every kid, is that Velvet doesn’t ever think she’s odd.
Velvet thinks she’s AWESOME!
And she is….
Now she has to read Tupelo Rides the Rails, by Melissa Sweet – also a very good read!
I am donating her two books to the new book barn at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in the new Children’s Garden in the DOF’s name – you guys have to come up and see it when you’re in ME, it’s going to be fabulous!