Celebrate Valentine’s Day with one of these great new children’s books:
“Henry in Love” (ages 3 to 6 $16.99): Henry’s a small boy, a cat really, with a big crush on a classmate named Chloe who’s a bunny. Author-illustrator Peter McCarty details how Henry expresses his affection for Chloe by doing his best forward roll.
Chloe, meanwhile, responds by doing a perfect cartwheel. The two then engage in a chasing game, with Chloe telling Henry: “You will never catch me!”
As the book ends, Henry gives Chloe the blueberry muffin he has been saving for his own afternoon snack, contenting himself with a carrot instead.
“Love” (ages birth to 2, $5.99): Author-illustrator Rosemary Wells has a new board-book series called “Baby Max and Ruby” showing the brother and sister in their younger days.
In “Love,” Wells pairs a simple rhyming text with colorful illustrations and eye-catching bits of shiny silver paper embedded in some of the illustrations,
“Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine” (ages 4 to 7, $16.99): This book is the second volume showing Amelia Bedelia as a child. (“Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School” was published last year.)
Once again, Herman Parish humorously highlights Amelia Bedelia’s tendency to take things literally, even as a child.
The colorful, energetic illustrations by Lynne Avril add even more charm and fun to the book.
“Guess Who?” (ages 3 to 5, $7.99): Combine a guessing game with appealing photographs of animals and a twist on the “lift the flap” format and you’ve got a winning book written and illustrated by Lola Schaefer.
The rhyming text is simple, but it’s the photographs and the way that the book pages fold out from each other that will capture the hearts of young readers.
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