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Picture Book of the Week
The last of September and I’ve got a mixed bag of books to review. When I started writing this blog, I wasn’t sure which one I would choose as Picture Book of the Week. But I figured it out in the end. This week is a great Picture book.
Picture Book of the Week!
5 books this week, Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett, How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers, This Pretty Planet illustrated by Lee White, The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers, and Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. All really good books.
Picture Book of the Week: The Yellow Bus
Two of these books I thought were going to go head to head as my favorite book of the week. So I was surprised when those two books were not as impressive as I thought they were going to be.
Picture Book Pick of the Week: Buffalo Fluffalo
Inside the cover it says: “The artist created hand-carved woodcuts of the characters, printed them, and scanned the prints into a computer. They were colored using scanned textures and paint in Photoshop. The characters were combined with acrylic gouache and woodcut-printed backgrounds to compose the scenes throughout the book.”