Carole Gerber, illus. by Michael Fleming. Doubleday, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-553-53341-5
Gerber (Tuck-in Time) offers a jaunty counting story as a witch with “a long, speedy broom” invites nine of her compatriots to join her for a ride. Though the rhymes often suggest the witches are in a degree of peril (“3 little witches zipping...
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Carole Gerber, illus. by Eugene Yelchin. Holt, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9211-0
Yelchin’s cheerful gouache illustrations call to mind sidewalk chalk art in this collection of nature- and spring-themed poems designed to be recited by two readers. The poems’ alternating parts are differentiated by color, with multicolored phrases
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Carole Gerber, illus. by Jane Dyer. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-168955-0
Benny, a newcomer to play group, exudes energy as he toddles into a room filled with bored babies, whose eyes brighten with anticipation. After Benny pulls a drum from a toy box, his playmates follow suit, and Gerber’s (Tuck-in Time) story takes off—
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Carole Gerber, illus. by Yumi Shimokawara. Familius, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-64170-159-4
“Loosely based on a 12th century Latin song” turned English Christmas hymn—“The Animal Carol”—this story imagines how the animals in the celebrated Bethlehem stable might have made way for Jesus’s birth. In realistic illustrations, each docile beast
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Carole Gerber, illus. by Sawsan Chalabi. Rise x Penguin Workshop, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-22573-8
Starting from the moment “a wiggly little cell from another/ joined with a round little cell from me,” and written from the intimate perspective of a gestational parent speaking to their fetus, this fact-filled, lyrical book takes young readers...
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