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Maisy Grows a Garden by Lucy Cousins . Cousins' black-line illustrations are always so fetching, but really bloom in this garden f...

-->   Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts . Amazing girl inventor who never gives up! Recommended by The Pl...

Crankee Doodle by Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell . Best grumpy repartee since Green Eggs and Ham , and historical notes on the ditty ...

NONFICTION THE GREATEST LIAR ON EARTH by Mark Greenwood, illustrated by Frané Lessac (Candlewick) Louis de Rougemont, alias Henri Loui...

  Rain! by Linda Ashman, illustrated by Christian Robinson .  Simple story with the dearest pictures, about the contagion of good c...

PICTURE BOOK BLACK RABBIT by Philippa Leathers (Candlewick) A little rabbit feels accosted by the sudden presence of an oversized, loo...

NONFICTION JEMMY BUTTON by Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali (Templar) The true story of a boy from Tierra del Fuego transported to Vic...

It's that time, the great last round-up and round of applause for some of the more sumptuous reads of the past year, as the new offering...