Marianne Richmond. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4022-6344-6
While the vignettes in Richmond's latest inspirational picture book are intended for the elementary school set (her characters grapple with not getting picked for a team, being scared of monsters in the closet, and jumping off the diving board),...
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Marianne Richmond. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4022-6878-6
Ralphie Mix isn't ready for bed, and he knows how to pull out all the stops. Richmond's (I Believe in You) sometimes uneven verse describes Ralphie's bedtime procrastination, which includes telling his mother that there's a bug scuttling across...
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Marianne Richmond. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4022-8215-7
Richmond demonstrates motherly devotion through a series of episodic examples. When a disorganized boy announces that he needs a frog costume—“with the show one day away!”—his frazzled mom spends all night working on it (“She’s still sewing when I...
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Marianne Richmond. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4022-9715-1
Richmond’s (I Love You So...) latest celebration of unconditional parent-child love involves a third object of affection: a young bear’s baby blanket. Edward and Blankie are “the best of friends” who, as Richmond sweetly puts it, “met on the first...
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Marianne Richmond. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4926-1542-2
“Before you were born/ my heart always knew/ I wanted to be/ a good parent to you.” Richmond is operating well within her wheelhouse in her latest paean to the child-parent bond. The unidentified speaker (different mothers, fathers, and children are
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Marianne Richmond, illus. by Amy Cartwright. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $9.99 (20p) ISBN 978-1-4926-5981-5
This Texas-themed padded board book, one of 26 state-specific versions publishing simultaneously, sprinkles references to the Lone Star State throughout a simple love poem. Unfortunately, the all-caps emphasis on Texan words and phrases only...
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Marianne Richmond. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $7.95 (10p) ISBN 978-1-9340-8290-4
Calming verse pairs with mixed-media collages in a quietly uplifting bedtime story that recaps the highlights of a day well spent. "Night night sandbox/ and shiny slide./ Night night wagon/ with bumpy ride!/ Night night puzzles,/ books, and toys./...
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Marianne Richmond. Sourcebooks, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4642-3190-2
Children’s author Richmond (The World Is Awaiting You) makes an impressive adult debut with this harrowing examination of her tumultuous relationship with her mother. When Richmond was nine years old, she experienced the first in a series of...
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Marianne Richmond, illus. by Janet Samuel. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $10.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-72825-445-6
Little Bird, an expressive scarlet songbird with a pink breast, looks forward to Christmas despite not knowing what it is in this nativity-focused picture book. Flitting from the Big Store to the Food Market to the Post Office, Little Bird regards...
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