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Spring books for curious kiddos

In this month’s Kids Kaleidoscope, we’re featuring books for curious kids who are always asking why and how come. Whether they’re exploring a park, learning about human or animal senses, discovering “what goes inside,” or pondering the questions of the cosmic universe through Pablo Neruda’s poetry, there’s a little something for everyone.

Plus, three Consortium titles were recently featured in the New York Times Book Review in a round-up of titles selected by the children’s books editor. Also: we’re seeing stars! To highlight the many titles from the Spring season that have received starred reviews, we’ve included a special section in this edition to feature them all.

Book of Questions
by Pablo Neruda, illus. Paloma Valdivia, trans. Sara Lissa Paulson
Enchanted Lion Books • April 2022 • 9781592703227 • iPage

A book containing fantastical questions, inviting us to be curious, while simultaneously embracing what we cannot know, this bilingual Spanish-English edition is the first illustrated selection of questions from Pablo Neruda’s original poem The Book of Questions. By bringing the artistic vision of prominent Chilean illustrator Paloma Valdivia to bear on Neruda’s great poem of questions, this makes Neruda’s celebration of curiosity, nonsense, and mystery available to children for the first time ever, as there has never been any version created for young readers. Receiving starred reviews from both School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, which said the book is “a gorgeous work that stretches the imagination and delights the senses,” this is a can’t-miss book of the season.

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My Day in the Park
by Marta Orzel
Blue Dot Kids Press • May 2022 • 9781737603245 • iPage

Explore a city park in this playful, illustrated adventure full of two-hundred words for children to learn! Packed full of interesting plants, birds, delicious picnic foods, and more, children can spend hours revisiting the maps and fourteen different locations in the park and always find something new. Take it from Kirkus: My Day in the Park is “a charming and expansive view of a common childhood excursion.”

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Cat Eyes and Dog Whistles: The ~~Five~~ Seven Senses of Humans and Other Animals
by Cathy Evans, illus. Becky Thorns
Cicada Books • April 2022 • 9781800660137 • iPage

With bold, bright illustrations by award-winning illustrator Becky Thorns, Cat Eyes and Dog Whistles is a marvelous science/biology book that will get kids thinking about how their bodies interact with and make sense of the world around them. Clear texts are peppered with fascinating facts about sensory perception. You won’t believe your eyes . . . or ears . . . or nose!

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What Goes Inside?
by Magda Gargulakova, illus. Federico Bonifacini
Albatros Media • April 2022 • 9788000063591 • iPage

There are so many things around us that we cannot see inside. Find out what goes inside a fridge, a school gym, or a music band van! Kids can try guessing what’s hiding inside or enjoy the search-and-find aspect and try to find the individual items. Pages full of bright, modern graphic illustrations encourage children to learn new words and thus name things connected to a specific place or an item.

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Three New Picture Books in the NYT

Stop and smell the roses . . . or take a cloud out on a walk or climb the antlers of a deer, as children’s books editor Jennifer Krauss recommends new spring books in the New York Times Book Review, including three Consortium titles. Morgane de Cadier’s Just to See, illustrated by Florian Pigé and translated by Johanna McCalmont, is a “whimsical colored-pencil dream,” according to Krauss. Pippa Goodhart’s Stop the Clock!, illustrated by Maria Christania Winardi, is highlighted in the piece for its use of color throughout the story, and Krauss also had high praise for The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky by Kim Jihyun: “It’s astonishing to behold.”

Just to See
by Morgane de Cadier, illus. Florian Pigé
Blue Dot Kids Press • May 2022 • 9781737603207 • iPage

Stop the Clock!
by Pippa Goodhart, illus. Maria Christania Winardi
Tiny Owl Publishing • April 2022 • 9781910328828 • iPage

The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky
by Jihyun Kim
Floris Books • April 2022 • 9781782507420 • iPage

Recently Reviewed: We’re seeing stars!

Norton and the Bear (Berbay Publishing, May 2022)

★ Booklist

Fly High, Lolo (Catalyst Press, May 2022)

★ School Library Journal

A Kunwinjku Counting Book (Enchanted Lion Books, May 2022)

★ Kirkus Reviews

The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky (Floris Books, April 2022)

★ Booklist

Dreams of Near and Far (Floris Books, May 2022)

★ Booklist

A Warbler's Journey (Gryphon Press, May 2022)

★ Booklist

Baby Teeth (Little Island Books, May 2022)

★ Kirkus Reviews

★ Publishers Weekly

★ School Library Journal

Looking for more kids’ books? Find new and upcoming titles in our Spring/Summer 2022 Children’s and YA catalog:

Edelweiss catalog

iPage catalog

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