![]() Denton’s a Canadian illustrator who produces a book once every three years, or so, so don’t blink or you might miss it. Any time you see a book illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton you grab, I mean GRAB, that title as quickly as you can. From selling ice cream in the snow to practicing cello with their chores, Billy and Rose may sometimes fight but they are always best friends forever. Two best friends share four small adventures over the course of four seasons. I like books to combine charming with strange. It’s sort of a perfect combo of simple words and art created for the most part with ballpoint pens and colored pencils. I love that her baby, which is perpetually squeaking, does so with speech balloons that are utterly filled up with a perpetual typewritten page of text, all reading “squeak”. ![]() I mean, just look at that mom’s expression on the cover. ![]() Baby Squeaks simply marks the latest of her titles and, for me anyway, may be my favorite so far. And Anne Hunter is certainly a current reigning queen in this area. But then there are those picture books that also qualify. They tend to have dimensions around 9” X 6”. ![]() Now the simple way to go would be to just concentrate your efforts entirely on books marketed for these sections. This is the award given out by an ALA committee every year for easy readers, basic readers, beginning readers, or whatever it is your library happens to call them. Every year a small cadre of librarians around the country try to predict what might win the Geisel Award. ![]()
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