Sara Gillingham. Random, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-385-37669-3
Friendships, Gillingham suggests, need tending—just like plants. “To grow a friend,” she starts, “first plant a seed in good soil.” A page turn shows a close-up of a boy and girl smiling over a bucket of soil, into which a bird drops a seed. The...
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Sara Gillingham. Chronicle, $9.99 (10p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4188-6
Gillingham makes turning a baby’s frown into a smile as simple as can be. A round disk embedded in the center of this board book spins on a post; on one side, the baby has a half-circle smile, while on the other, its mouth is inverted in an...
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Sara Gillingham. Random, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-553-51093-5
Gillingham follows the tend-friends-like-plants metaphor of How to Grow a Friend with a book built around the idea that with “gentle hands, the right tools, and lots of patches,” one can fix emotional hurts. Her hero is a boy whose stuffed elephant...
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Sara Gillingham. Phaidon, $19.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-7148-7143-1
Gillingam (How to Mend a Heart) delivers a handsomely designed alpha-to-zulu overview of nautical codes, focusing on signal flags and the NATO phonetic alphabet while also covering Morse code and semaphore. Weathered, silkscreenlike images of...
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Sara Gillingham, Author, Lorena Siminovich, Illustrator , illus. by Lorena Siminovich. Chronicle $8.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6556-2
Flaps, textures and die-cut pages make these books all the more appealing.
In My Pond
Sara Gillingham
, illus. by Lorena Siminovich. Chronicle
, $8.99 (10p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6556-2
This mixed-media board book has an organic, arts-and-crafts quality.
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