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With its chatty narrative, droll dialogue and playfully illustrated play-by-play, this plucky retelling of the traditional Slavic tale is practically bound theatre.

Other books mentioned:

• Brave Irene
• The Three Sillies
• Cupid and Psyche

More shady step-families on JOMB:

• Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
• Cinderella Skeleton
• Smoky Mountain Rose (An Appalachian Cinderella)
• Ella’s Big Chance

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Hoopla, bloopers and the rantings of temperamental talent turn a lesson in the science of snow into a boisterous blast of behind-the-scenes TV-making lunacy — who knew deposition, sublimation, sectored plates and radiating dendrites could be so much fun?

Other books mentioned:

• The Scrambled States of America Talent Show
• Do Unto Otters

HOTLINE VOICES: Author and Professor of Library Science at Texas Woman’s Universit, Sylvia Vardell explains why Diamond Willow (by Helen Frost) is one of her current favourite books.

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Spilling sunlight, squishy ground and the bliss of a fragrant breeze make the pleasant ponderings of a precocious pig a refreshing springtime read.

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Other books mentioned:

• Doctor Ted

Other favourite pigs on JOMB:

• Today I Will Fly
• When Pigs Fly
• The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
• The Piggy in The Puddle
• Swine Lake
• Swine Snafu
• Wait! No Paint!
• Preston Pig

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This beautiful book, packed with playful illustrations and cozy rhyme, invites us into winter with such joy I just can’t imagine an autumn without it.

(Arrgh!! Another gorgeous book that’s out of print! This book is available for purchase at Elisa Kleven’s website.)