Picture Books

VERDICT Purchase several copies of this book, and pair with Claudia Rueda's Let's Play in the Forest While the Wolf is Not Around or with Ed Emberley's Go Away, Big Green Monster! for a lively story time about laughing away your fears.—Monica Fleche BELL, Davina. PreS-Gr 2—The day is a stinker from the start for two young friends—a boy with brown skin and black hair and a girl with light skin and red hair—who can't seem to get things back on course. With full-page artwork throughout, the story begins with Professor Goose, with a bit of punk rock pink hair, telling readers that she will fact check Mother Goose's work with science. At the end of the book is a STEM craft that is very apropos of the DIY maker movement, as well as instructions on how to engineer a cardboard chair for a bear.