cover image More Blueberries!

More Blueberries!

Susan Musgrave, illus. by Esperan%C3%A7a Melo. Orca, $9.95 (26p) ISBN 978-1-4598-0707-5

The duo behind Love You More (2014) returns with an enthusiastic celebration of blueberries, starring two children (and a few animals) who can%E2%80%99t get enough of them. The inherent messiness of eating blueberries figures prominently: %E2%80%9CBlueberry fingers,/ blueberry nose./ Blueberry lips,/ blueberry toes,%E2%80%9D writes Musgrave as Melo%E2%80%99s warm acrylics show the boy and girl leaving blue hand- and footprints in their wake. An interlude in which cats, crows, frogs, and bears express their fervor for blueberries (%E2%80%9CFrogs hop on blueberries,/ pop, hop, pop%E2%80%9D) disrupts the repeating structure of the rhymes that precede and follow it, but it%E2%80%99s a small quibble in a joyful story. Up to age 3. (Apr.)