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Looking for some new kids books for the holidays? In my house, we love holiday books to help us get in the season and they are great for yearly traditions. To mix things up I love to add books to our collection and give books as gifts.
Tilbury House is a multi-award winning publishing company located in the United States that offers a diverse range of children’s & educational books for all ages. Just in time for the holidays, Tilbury House Publishers has come out with three kids books titles for ages 4 through adult.
by Amy Newbold and illustrated by Greg Newbold
Ages 6-9; 40 pages; Hardcover $17.95
In this sequel to the tour de force children’s art-history picture book If Picasso Painted a Snowman, Amy Newbold conveys nineteen artists’ styles in a few deft words, while Greg Newbold’s chameleon-like artistry shows us Edgar Degas’ dinosaur ballerinas, Cassius Coolidge’s dinosaurs playing Go Fish, Hokusai’s dinosaurs surfing a giant wave, and dinosaurs smelling flowers in Mary Cassatt’s garden; grazing in Grandma Moses’ green valley; peeking around Diego Rivera’s lilies; tiptoeing through Baishi’s inky bamboo; and cavorting, stampeding, or hiding in canvases by Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Franz Marc, Harrison Begay, Alma Thomas, Aaron Douglas, Mark Rothko, Lois Mailou Jones, Marguerite Zorach, and Edvard Munch. And, of course, striking a Mona Lisa pose for Leonardo da Vinci.
As in If Picasso Painted a Snowman, our guide for this tour is an engaging hamster who is joined in the final pages by a tiny dino artist. Thumbnail biographies of the artists identify their iconic works, completing this tour of the creative imagination. Color throughout.
Mother Earth’s Lullaby
by Terry Pierce and illustrated by Carol Heyer
Ages 4-7; 36 pages; Hardcover $17.95
When Mother Earth bids goodnight, / the world is bathed in silver light. / She says, “Goodnight, my precious ones.” / Nature’s song has just begun.
Mother Earth’s Lullaby is a gentle bedtime call to some of the world’s most endangered animals. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition create a quiet moment for children burrowing down in their own beds for the night, imparting a sense that even the most endangered animals feel safe at this peaceful time of day. In successive spreads, a baby giant panda, yellow-footed rock wallaby, California condor, Ariel toucan, American red wolf, Sumatran tiger, polar bear, Javan rhinoceros, Vaquita dolphin, Northern spotted owl, Hawaiian goose, and Key deer are snuggled to sleep by attentive parents in their dens and nests under the moon and stars.
Brief descriptions of each animal appear in the back of the book. Color throughout.
How Nature Works: Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures
by Paul Erickson and photographs by Andrew Martinez
Hardcover $17.95
The role of venoms in nature … and in human medicine.Why are toxins so advantageous to their possessors as to evolve over and over again? What is it about watery environments that favors so many venomous creatures? Marine biologist Paul Erickson explores these and other questions with astounding images from Andrew Martinez and other top underwater photographers.
GREAT for teaching STEM Marine Biology.
Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins―you can choose your poison in the ocean. Venoms are often but not always defensive weapons. The banded sea krait, an aquatic snake, wriggles into undersea caves to prey on vicious moray eels, killing them with one of the world’s most deadly neurotoxins, which it injects through fangs that resemble hypodermic needles. The Komodo dragon, an ocean-going reptile, tears into a water buffalo with its blade-like teeth, then secretes a deadly toxin into the open wounds.
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GIVEAWAY ENTRY:
Darlene Taylor says
love the new creativity in kids books
Vikki Billings says
How Nature Works: Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures, would be my favorite!
Hesper Fry says
I think my kids would like Mother Earth’s Lullaby.
Abigail says
My son would LOVE Don’t Mess With me! He is intrigued by all things dangerous and venomous!
Jamie Martin says
Mother Earth’s Lullaby
Antoinette M says
My favorite is “Don’t mess with me”.
rosemary says
wow-Mother Earth Lullaby
kathy pease says
I would like Mother Earth’s Lullaby
Montana Klepsch says
Don’t mess with me, because I have always been fascinated with sea creatures so I think it’s something my daughter and I both could enjoy.
Wendi Smith says
I would like the if di vinci was to paint a dinosaur
Summer D says
My boys would love Don’t Mess With Me. They enjoy anything related to ocean creatures.
Robin Abrams says
Mother Earth’s Lullaby would be my favorite
Michelle Catallo says
The Don’t Mess With Me would be a hit in my household; my kids would love all of them though.
ger says
My favorite would be, If da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur.
Pat F says
I would choose Mother Earth’s Lullaby would be my favorite.
Cindy M says
Mother Earth’s Lullaby would be my favorite.
Laura says
Mother Earth’s Lullaby would be my favorite!
laura feist says
mother earths lulliby
June S. says
These are very nice books. I want to read this one to my grandson first; Mother Earth’s Lullaby ; Mother Earth’s Lullaby is a gentle bedtime call to some of the world’s most endangered animals. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition create a quiet moment for children burrowing down in their own beds for the night, imparting a sense that even the most endangered animals feel safe at this peaceful time of day. In successive spreads, a baby giant panda, yellow-footed rock wallaby, California condor, Ariel toucan, American red wolf, Sumatran tiger, polar bear, Javan rhinoceros, Vaquita dolphin, Northern spotted owl, Hawaiian goose, and Key deer are snuggled to sleep by attentive parents in their dens and nests under the moon and stars.
susan uhlott says
would like to win
Amy W. says
If Da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur looks cute.
Suzanne Greene says
I would like Mother Earth’s Lullaby.
Donna L says
The book Mother Earth’s Lullaby.
susan hartman says
I would d like If DaVinci Painted a Dinosaur.
MaryAnn says
Mother Earth’s Lullaby
Heather M says
DaVinci the Dinosaur I think would be the biggest hit here.
Sally Gearhart says
I think that If da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur would be our favorite, i try to find silly books to read with my kids. My son would love don’t mess with me as well.
Emily R. says
My son would love Don’t Mess With Me!
John Smith says
“Leave a blog post comment on which book would be your favorite?” “If da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur”!
Vickie L Couturier says
Dont mess with me
Leela says
How Nature Works: Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures.
Edye says
We’d like the dinosaur one!
Beatrice P says
I like the book with the wolf on the cover.
Nancy says
These are all interesting books. I think our favorite would be Mother Earth’s Lullaby.
mary chapman says
Don’t Mess with Me looks very interesting!
Dorothy Boucher says
How nature works, I think its always fun to learn about the way our planet , how we , or the universe works and all that is in it.
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Nancy Burgess says
Mother Earth’s Lullaby would be my favorite.
Angelica Dimeo says
Da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur would be my favorite.
Mia Rose says
I think Mother Earth’s Lullaby would be my favorite.