Kim Norman, illus. by Liza Woodruff. Sterling, $14.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4549-0384-0
The team behind Ten on the Sled presents a rollicking twist on “If You’re Happy and You Know It” starring a bevy of winter-loving animals. Norman offers 11 alliterative verses whose spot-on rhythms and rhymes make singalouds a given: “If your fur is
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Kim Norman, illus. by Jannie Ho. Sterling, $14.95 (26p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8632-7
Santa Claus (or at least author Norman) has been watching Undercover Boss. When things start to go awry at the toy workshop in the weeks before Christmas, Santa disguises himself as an elf to investigate: “I’ll search all about,/ in this cap and...
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Kim Norman, illus. by Daniel Miyares. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (40) ISBN 978-0-374-30598-7
“Come summer,/ we’ll visit the lake./ When we spot a sparkle through the trees,/ we’ll race to the rope, bellowing/ ‘Cannonbaaall!’ ” Readers follow a child’s joyful leap to splash into this loping evocation of specific seasonal joys, among them...
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Kim Norman, illus. by Keika Yamaguchi. Sterling, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4549-0436-6
“Percy was a puddle pug. He loved puddles of every sort,” opens Norman’s (If It’s Snowy and You Know It, Clap Your Paws!) sweet-natured story about a dog’s hunt for the perfect puddle. Percy is both indiscriminate and a tough customer when it comes...
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Kim Norman, illus. by Jay Fleck. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-31213-8
Favorite children’s counting song “The Ants Go Marching” gets a sweetly spooky makeover in this vibrant Halloween rendition. The titular ghosts, floating one by one (“BOO-rah! BOO-rah!”), are joined by two cackling witches, three stumbling mummies,...
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