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“Two Dogs” by Ian Falconer

Two dogs
Written and illustrated by Ian Falconer

The author of the book “Olivia” brilliantly portrays his theatrical experience as a performing artist on this fun tour of the twin dachshunds, who escape with humans alone. Painted like a caramel pastel crayon, Aussie and Perry—the true board-building act of the opposite character — stare through the glass of the charcoal door frame of the garden, which looks like a surrealistic color photograph. Perfect it’s certainly artificial. Before we knew it, our animated canines jumped into an expanded set of paradise with a pool. This perfectly choreographed ballet is “Angkor! Angkor!”

40pp. Michaeldi Capua / Harper Collins. $ 18.99. (4-8 years old)

Elephant Island
Written and illustrated by Leo Timmers

After swimming for his life, the elephant, whose boat was sunk by “noisy” waves, reaches a “small island”. It’s a rock that’s barely big to stand on. Small animals on small boats come one by one and “rescue” him. Every time he “steps in”, he sinks the ship when he gets in, and every time he does his best to “save the situation,” he adds his new companion to the pocket-sized space. In yet another victorious experiment with the award-winning Timmers, his medium (here different types of sponges, razor blades, paint rollers for creating different types of textures) is typical of his message. It is a realization. “The magic of a happy accident”.

48pp. Gecko. $ 18.99. (2-6 years old)

Night owl
Written and illustrated by Christopher Dennis

On his first solo outing, Dennis matches the stellar deadpan wordplay with the pure derring-do, Old Master-style chiaroscuro technique. This is perfect for a book about little owls with great ambitions. Lifting the smallest shield causes the owl to fall back and has a “nodding habit during the day,” but his cavalry attracts even the most resentful dragons of us.

48pp. Christy Ottaviano / Little, Brown. $ 17.99. (4-8 years old)

Norton and bear
Written and illustrated by Gabriel Evans

The conceit that allows the bitter cartoon tension between the “very unique” dog and the imitated bear, which is the premise of this book, to be very successful is its setting, complete walking at 2 feet. It is a world where animals dressed in various clothes mix seamlessly with humans. A chicken with a briefcase is watching with the children in the neighborhood while a beret-clad cheetah is juggling the streets. A fox chats with a girl at a cafe. Turtles in business suits have lunch boxes on their way to work. Norton and bears don’t just look like humans. They are humans. And clothes don’t make animals.

32pp. Barbay. $ 17.99. (3-6 years old)

ARMADILLO ANTICS
Written by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson.
Illustration by Natalie Beauvois.

Martin (“ChickaChicka Boom Boom”, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?”) And his best friend and literacy expert left unpublished by Martin’s death in 2004. One of the collaborations with Sampson, Armadillo Antics, pays homage to the creatures of the night roaming the woods outside their homes in Commerce, Texas. It is this nocturnal aspect that the talented Argentine collaborator, Beauvois, captures very beautifully. Although heavily influenced by Eric Carle’s style of painted cut paper, Beauvois’s brushstrokes are rougher, the texture is more raised and the background is darker. And sometimes-yes, that’s true-she deliberately strays outside the boundaries.

32pp. Brown book. $ 18.99. (2-5 years old)


Jennifer Klaus is a children’s book editor for book reviews.

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