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NoveList's Juvenile Brain Trust is a group of readers' advisory librarians and metadata librarians who focus on books for kids and teens. Once a week, the JBT gets together to catch up and share new books. On 10/10/2018, we discussed:

March Forward, Girl, Melba Pattillo Beals, illustrated by Frank Morrison

Ghoulia, Barbara Cantini

The Coral Kingdom, Laura Knowles, illustrated by Jennie Webber

Once Upon a Jungle, Laura Knowles, illustrated by James Boast

Thank You, Omu!, Oge Mora

Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, David Ezra Stein

Have you read any of these books? What do you think of them?

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REVIEW

How to Be a Butterfly

words by Laura Knowles

pictures by Catell Ronca

This lovely book is one I can see parents or older siblings reading to younger children. The illustrations are beautiful detailing a wide number of butterflies that include their scientific names as well. The butterfly parts are shown as is the life cycle of the butterfly. This is a book I can see buying for my granddaughter or as a gift to give to any child.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4.5 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41214378-how-to-be-a-butterfly

BLURB

Should a butterfly be big or small? Should it be bright and bold, or perfectly pale? A joyous, imaginative, yet informative non-fiction picture book about what it takes to be a butterfly – body parts, behavior and life cycle – with the underlying message that diversity is a wonderful thing and that, in fact, there are 20,000 ways to be a butterfly! With labelled butterflies throughout, there is plenty for young nature lovers to spot and explore time and again.

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It Starts With a Seed

It Starts With a Seed

It Starts With a Seed, by Laura Knowles and illustrated by Jennie Webber

Synopsis: Take a journey through the seasons and years as we follow the seed’s transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.

As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures – squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and…

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