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Congratulations to this year’s Caldecott Award recipients!

MODERN CLASSICS THAT NEED MORE ILLUSTRATORS: THE SWORD IN THE STONE BY T.H. White
This story is in a class by itself with it’s richness of wisdom, humor, characters and adventure and deserves some illustration love! (Post image by artist Arno Kiss).

A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh and Felix Salten’s Bambi, The Story of Life in the Forest, move into the public domain this year, and already there are some pretty versions of both popping up! Happy Public Domain Day 2022!

Throughout 2021, as I’ve perused book stores, these titles have stood out to me…the most beautiful chapter books and story collections of 2021! List begins with classics and story collections and then moves on to newly released titles.

There have been some wonderful releases in the picture book world this year.

This blog is mainly about illustrated chapter books. However, non-fiction books make up a large share of our reading time. Here are a few that captured my attention this year!

Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima teamed up as MINALIMA to create these gorgeously illustrated and interactive, unabridged versions of various Children’s Classics, as well as the first two Harry Potters (so far). No doubt there will be more to come and I for one, cannot wait to see which title will be next!

Here are a few titles releasing in November that have crossed my path.

I call this my Pigs, Chickens and Wolves list!

New Series Alert! Just released, these boldly illustrated abridged classics illustrated by Maite Schmitt, caught my eye big time – read on to discover two more titles in the series due out next year.