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Available
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This charming new picture book celebrates all the small but important milestones on the way to growing up, from the first wobbly baby steps to the time when they're ready to leave the nest.
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Balzer Bray (2019), Edition: Illustrated, 40 pages
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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Sherri Duskey Rinker, author of such picture-book bestsellers as Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train, joins forces with illustrator A.N. Kang, the author/artist behind The Very Fluffy Kitty, Papillon and its sequel, in presenting this sing-song picture-book of
Clearly meant as a graduation gift item, Celebrate You! is a book I expected to enjoy more than I did, given the fact that I have found some of Rinker's other books engaging, and thought that Kang's picture-books about Papillon were adorable. Unfortunately, although there's really nothing wrong here, there also wasn't anything that particularly stood out to me. The artwork was cute enough, and the text had a sing-song quality, but I finished the book with the feeling that this had been done before, and better, in such titles as Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go, or Emily Winfield Martin's The Wonderful Things You Will Be.
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affirmation. As the title suggests, it is a celebration of "you" - no doubt meant to be the picture-book reader/listener - from birth through some momentous rites of passage, in which "you" embark on a new voyage...Clearly meant as a graduation gift item, Celebrate You! is a book I expected to enjoy more than I did, given the fact that I have found some of Rinker's other books engaging, and thought that Kang's picture-books about Papillon were adorable. Unfortunately, although there's really nothing wrong here, there also wasn't anything that particularly stood out to me. The artwork was cute enough, and the text had a sing-song quality, but I finished the book with the feeling that this had been done before, and better, in such titles as Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go, or Emily Winfield Martin's The Wonderful Things You Will Be.
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LibraryThing member LibrarianRyan
This book is nice, but typical. The rhyming and cadence are there, and the illustrations are fun. The message is that you are you, and deserved to be celebrated.
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Language
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English
Physical description
40 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
0062564021 / 9780062564023