Christmas Board Books for stocking stuffers! @candlewickpress

You know I love a good board book and holiday board books are just the cutest! Enjoy the season’s readings! Winter Light, by Aaron Becker, (Sept. 2024, Candlewick Studio), $17.99, ISBN: 9781536236460 Ages Birth-3 Aaron Becker’s board books are works of art. Winter Light is the companion to We Are Light and describes the waning of light outdoors, heralding the arrival of “winter light”: “Glowing…

Oops! Rabbit  by Jo Ham. Candlewick Studio, 2024. 9781536233162 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4  Format: Hardcover What did you like about the book?  The illustrations steal the show in this fun picture book that will delight toddlers.  A little rabbit illustrates the concepts of on and off in small vignettes. The digital illustrations depict Rabbit in black silhouette…

Uh-Oh! Rabbit & Yippee! Rabbit by Jo Ham. Candlewick Studio, 2023. 9781536233179, 9781536233186 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover picture book What did you like about the book?  These two stylish little books feature a bold silhouetted rabbit on a white background in a variety of humorous situations. In Uh-Oh!, Rabbit tackles a seesaw, cannonballs into a…

Whose Dinosaur Bones Are These? by Chihiro Takeuchi. Candlewick Studios, c2022, 2023. 9781536230697 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover picture book What did you like about the book?  Chihiro Takeuchi’s masterful paper cutting technique is on full display in this charming compare and contrast look at dinosaurs. The book uses a visual riddle format in which…

The Circles in the Sky by Karl James Mountford. Candlewick Studio, 2022. 9781536224986 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5  Format: Hardcover picture book  What I liked about it: Woven into this visually appealing book with its bright digital artwork is a tale of death. Unable to rest in his den due to the strange song that the birds were singing, Fox decides to investigate…

Arthur, the Always King by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Chris Riddell. Candlewick Studio, c2021. 2023.  9781536212655 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover What did you like about the book? Crossley-Hollard does an excellent job of enlightening the reader of King Arthur and his times from his birth, his childhood, the pulling of the sword from the stone…

My First Pop-Up Endangered Animals by Owen Davey. Candlewick Studio, 2023. 9781536228441 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Board book What did you like about the book? Fifteen endangered animals from around the world are given Davey’s artistic treatment in this handsome pop-up book. Each gets a spread on a coordinating background, with their location and a short…