Saturday, November 10, 2PM: Mem Fox & Lauren Stringer

Start: 10 Nov 2012 2:00 pm

Timezone: America/Chicago

It's not very often that we score both the author AND the illustrator of one of our favorite new picture books for one event. Heck, it's not very often that anyone lands an event like this. (Especially when one of them has to travel half the globe to get here!) So we feel pretty lucky, and you should, too, because you're invited.

Mem Fox's sweet, lyrical words and Lauren Stringer's expressive, beautiful artwork are the perfect combination in Tell Me About Your Day Today. Come hear the story, see the artwork, meet the talented and lovely author and illustrator...and who knows? Maybe we'll all tell each other a little something about our days.

Book List

Tell Me About Your Day Today (Hardcover)

By Mem Fox, Lauren Stringer

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9781416990062
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Beach Lane Books, 9/2012

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* “There once was a boy who loved bedtime,” writes Fox (Two Little Monkeys), and within a few pages, it’s clear why: when Mommy gives “the last good night” and departs, the boy gets to snuggle up with his beloved toys to discuss their respective days…as much as this book is about being the center of the universe, it’s also about letting others hold the stage. A good friend, the final contented huddle tells readers, is also a good listener.”

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A little boy loves to cuddle and chat with his stuffed-animal friends at bedtime…. The specifics are told wordlessly and in great detail in Stringer’s bright acrylic illustrations with just the right softly fuzzy surroundings. From Goose’s encounter with a pink umbrella to Horse’s deployment as an emergency picnic site (a blanket thrown over his back makes his rockers a fine tent) to Rabbit’s clothespin-pinched bottom, these adventures are charming and easy for little readers to follow…. Fox’s use of rhyme and repetition has a flowing cadence that moves briskly along while allowing time to savor the details of the innocent delight of a small child’s imagination.

A lovely, gentle story for bedtime sharing.”

—Kirkus Reviews

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Hardcover)

By Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury

$16.99

ISBN-13: 9780152060572
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harcourt Children's Books, 10/2008

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"A standout for its beautiful simplicity, this picture-book collaboration between Fox and Oxenbury aims a message of diversity and tolerance at very young children. The first lines set up the text’s repetition and rhythm: “There was one little baby who was born far away. And another who was born on the very next day. And both of these babies, as everyone knows, had ten little fingers and ten little toes.” The subsequent spreads follow the same theme in similarly bouncing, rhyming lines: babies around the world may be different (one baby is born near ice, another in a desert tent), but the refrain of each baby’s 10 fingers and toes reminds us of what we all share. Oxenbury’s spare pencil-and-watercolor pictures, set against pure white pages, zero in on pudgy little hands and feet, offering many interactive opportunities for young viewers to point and count. Clusters of adorable multicultural babies from around the world toddle across the pages until just one child receives three kisses on the nose from her loving mom, a sweet gesture that parents will want to act out with their own children. A gentle, joyous offering. Preschool-Kindergarten."

-Booklist, starred review

Winter Is the Warmest Season (Hardcover)

By Lauren Stringer

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780152049676
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harcourt Children's Books, 10/2006

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Winter? Cold? It's all in the way you look at things as this imaginative book makes clear. A boy proclaims that summer notwithstanding, his world is warmest in winter. His puffy jacket is cozy, and a fire burns in the fireplace. Comparisons between summer and winter come in clever pairs: jelly sandwiches turn into grilled cheese; cool swims turn into hot baths. Nor is it just the boy who feels the difference: the cat cuddles on laps instead of stretching out on the windowsill. In a linguistic rhapsody, the boy explains how "sleeping radiators awake to their dragon selves, banging and hissing and pouring heat." It takes special art to accentuate the evocative words, and Stringer, who has illustrated many books for others, provides distinctive pictures for herself. With fascinating perspectives that sometimes start on the ceiling, the deeply hued acrylic artwork ranges from friendly to joyous, as in a two-page spread of a party filled with fun and music. A special book worthy of many readings, this radiates warmth.

-Booklist, starred review

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