Children's Books from M.R. Nelson

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I have no kids book news this month. A couple of projects are inching along, and I'm starting to itch to write a new book. I guess difficulties in getting my current projects published doesn't matter to the part of my brain that comes up with stories!

This Month's Books

That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, by Cressida Cowell, illustrated by Neal Layton

Emily Brown is having adventures with her rabbit Stanley, and keeps getting interrupted by representatives of the queen, who wants Stanley for her own. There’s enough repetition in how the story is constructed that it held my kids’ attention even when they were younger than two, but there is enough going on in the story that my new kindergartner still loves to have this story read to her.

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The Last Stop on Market Street, by Matt De La Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson

This is one of the books we currently have out from the library, and I love it so much that I decided to post about it right away. It is a sweet story about a little boy riding the bus with his grandmother, but what makes it so special is the way it captures the rhythm of the city, and the way it straight-forwardly includes aspects of city life that most books either skip or gloss over.

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