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7 children's picture books we think you'll really like
Samuel Johnson once famously noted that a man who is tired of London “is tired of life.” Some of us feel the same way about children’s picture books. While it’s true that many cover familiar ground – animals, the great outdoors, adventures with family and friends – no two ever do so in quite the same way. And the best of them rediscover the world with such a fresh and inspired gaze that they turn even the most adult of us into children all over again.
Some of the gems that have arrived in bookstores this season include a couple of classic winter tales, a retold Aesop’s fable, poetry about dogs, a baby penguin, and a chicken awash in blue ink.
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7. "Blue Chicken," by Deborah Freedman
Oh no! The painting of the barn is almost done in Deborah Freedman's Blue Chicken (Viking, 40 pp.) when one of the chickens snoozing in the coop wakes up and decides to help. Instead of helping, however, she tips a pot of blue ink and splatters herself and the entire painting. Young readers will love to watch how the ink washes over all the other farm animals as well and seems to be creating a hopeless mess – until the resourceful chicken finds a way to save the day.
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