Books by Michael Dahl and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Dahl, illus. by Christina Forshay. Capstone, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62370-000-3
Created in partnership with Sports Illustrated Kids, this uneven tribute to baseball chronicles a father-son outing to a stadium on game day. At times, Dahl’s singsong couplets suggest that the boy is narrating (“We eat popcorn and hot dogs and hold
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Michael Dahl, illus. by Adam Record. Capstone/Picture Window, $7.99 (20p) ISBN 978-1-4048-7536-4
Part of the Hello Genius line, this story stars a green dinosaur in a graphic T-shirt and glasses whose “teeth are big and sharp” and good for one thing—biting. “Don’t bite your toys! Don’t bite your chair!” shouts Dahl’s text, as Record’s crisply...
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Michael Dahl, illus. by Lauren Lowen. Picture Window, $20.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5158-4058-9
Personified as colorful monsters in this grammatical learning journey, nouns Person, Place, and Thing head via bus to a museum (“a place noun”) to find their ilk—words that “give names to the world around us.” Throughout the trip, they point out...
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