Picture Book Black Eyed Susan Nominees 2021 (Part Two)

 In no particular order, except how I read them.

Vivid reminder that names are important.  Always try hard to pronounce another's name as they do. I needed lessons in Chinese with one of my students and never seemed to get it right. Show that you care and are trying. 

https://www.theinnovationpress.com/your-name-is-a-song

True Story !  Bronx Zoo foster mom starts with a lion cub and ends with 2 decade career as a Zookeeper to infant animals.  Using common "sense and intuition", Helen Martini nurtured hundreds of baby animals.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622101/cubs-in-the-tub-by-by-candace-fleming-illustrated-by-julie-downing/

Lubna is a refugee, living in a tent city, who has a friend in a pebble. A pebble she shares everthing with: memories of war, her brothers, memories of home.  Amir, has joined the tent city becomes friends with Lubna.  When Lubna and her father depart for a new home, she leaves Pebble with Amir with instructions to tell Pebble everything he feels.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602037/lubna-and-pebble-by-wendy-meddour-illustrated-by-daniel-egneus/

Barnabus is a failed pet project, half elephant half mouse he lives in a bell jar in a lab with other pet projects. Pip, a cockroach tells Banabus about the outside, green grass, mountins with stars.  Failed projects will be destoyed and barnabus plans to escape.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561916/the-barnabus-project-by-the-fan-brothers-and-devin-fan/

An invention story: how did noodle ramen comes to be? Through lots of experimentation and presistance in postwar Japan. Momofuku Ando worked for years to produce a nutrious and quick food for hungry people. "The world is peaceful only when everyone has enough to eat."

http://andreaywang.com/books/picture-books/magic-ramen/

 

Picture Book Black Eyed Susan Nominees 2021 ( Part One)

 In no particular order, except how I read them. 

Inspiring: even though Mary Walker had to postpone learning to read until she was 116 years old  she succeeded and learned to read.  Wittnessing the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, Mary Walker was recognized as the Oldest Student by the Department of Health Education and Welfare. 

this book is listed on my entry Books to buy for Everybody Section 2021-2022

Multiple awards, including  the Robert F. Silbert Informational Book Medal; nonfiction Dewey 641.8, includes a recipe. Illustrations lovely, text structure "Fry bread is.." describing how fry bread is part of Native American culture.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557388/the-oldest-student-how-mary-walker-learned-to-read-by-rita-lorraine-hubbard-illustrated-by-oge-mora/

By the author, Mihn Le and illustrator, Dan Santat of Drawn Together, this team brings another simple, graphic and charming story. A sister, little brother, stuffed tiger and an elevator button connected.

ends with a quote from Carl Sagan "Imagination..."

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lift-minh-le/1133344209

A Paean to bundless of energy, especilly boys; those jigglety. fidgety unbounded and boundless kids in the front row of every classroom. Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James celebrated with Crown: Ode to the Fresh Cut in 2017, winnig Newbery, Cladecott and Coretta Scott King awards.  Every Good Thing is a reminder energy and imagination go hand in hand.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594506/i-am-every-good-thing-by-derrick-barnes-illustrated-by-gordon-c-james/

My numero uno, mejor amiga is moving away. Every thing is going to change for Daniela. Rhymic text, vibrant, kenetic digital illustrations describe how it can feel to be left behind.                            

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653681/evelyn-del-rey-is-moving-away-by-meg-medina/