So Penny comes up with the perfect solution: Have her own under the stars sleepover-furry friends invited! Colorful, expressive illustrations in watercolor, pencil, and ink perfectly detail Penny’s plans. Penny tries to construct a pretend Jelly out of paper, yarn, fleece, pipe cleaners, cotton balls, marshmallows, and more but can’t quite duplicate the real Jelly, no matter how hard she tries. Penny is excited to go to Sleepover Under the Stars Night at the local community center, but she doesn’t want to leave her dog, Jelly, behind. Back matter includes background information on the Statue of Liberty, a page of trivia related to the statue, and a bibliography. The brightly colored illustrations are a combination of digital and traditional pencil-and-paint artwork. But back in New York, people miss her and desperately hope she’ll return in time for the Fourth of July celebration.
Readers follow Lady Liberty on a map as she travels from the Jersey Shore to the Great Midwest and all the way out to California to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Moe the Pigeon urges Lady Liberty to take a vacation, so one night she puts down her torch and tablet and sneaks away to see the rest of America. The Statue of Liberty is tired of standing in her same spot on Ellis Island day after boring day, and besides that her neck hurts from always holding her arm up over her head. Detailed watercolor-and-colored pencil illustrations add a muted beauty to the text. A feast for the senses, this story describes what wild looks, feels, smells, sounds, and tastes like, and it reminds readers that wild can hide in the most unusual of places, and finding wild is possible for everyone no matter where they live. In this poetic and thought-provoking picture book, a young boy and girl set off to explore the wild spaces around them. Nothing goes together better than summertime and exploring. This rhythmic book is a great choice to take on a summer road trip to stave off pleas of “Are we there yet?” Brightly colored cartoon-style illustrations created digitally complement the text in this engaging concept book.įinding Wild.
Where are the cars headed? Everywhere-to the beach, to town, to the mountains, and to campsites, just to name a few places. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky.Ĭars, cars, cars! All kinds of cars driven by a full cast of animal characters make this simple rhyming text a fun choice for young readers who love to talk about cars. Ah, summer-those gloriously long days with plenty of time to take part in fun activities, such as diving into a good book! Check out these recently published titles that take readers on road trips, to summer camp, into nature, and on vacation.Ĭalling All Cars.
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