#SkinnamarinkDay is coming! On October 8th 2019, share your love online for Sharon, Lois & Bram and their new book by using the hashtag #SkinnamarinkDay on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or wherever you share!
KidLit Halloween Costume: Unicorns 101
Dress up like your favorite KidLit characters this Halloween! Today’s outfit is inspired by Professor Star Hoof from Unicorns 101. We’ve done the work and searched for all the pieces for you!
Unicorn horn: PartyCity | Glasses: PartyCity | Temporary Tattoo: Jewel Flash Tattoos | Shirt: Van Heusen | Tie: BuyYourTies | Lab coat: Just Lab Coats
Unicorns 101
By Cale Atkinson
ISBN 9780735265431 | Tundra Books
32 Pages | Ages 3-7 | Hardcover
The unicorn is the most noble and beautiful of all the beasts. Colorful and shiny coats, luscious manes that smell of cinnamon, sparkly hooves. But not much was known about this fascinating species . . . until now.
Top professors working in the field of Unicorn Science have come together for the first time to create this comprehensive guide to the unicorn: Dr. Glitter Pants, Grand Unistorian; Dr. Sprinkle Steed, Doctor of Magic; Dr. Star Hoof, Rainbowmetrics Specialist; and Dr. Sugar Beard, Certified Hornologist. These highly trained scientists will reveal all of the secrets you’ve been dying to find out: What is a unicorn’s horn made of? Why do I never see unicorns? What do unicorns like to eat? And what do unicorn homes look like? (Hint: there are guard’n gnomes, a ball pit and gummi bears growing on trees.)
This book will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about unicorns–and more. But please, handle with care, or you may be seeing sparkles for weeks.
Window Wednesday
#WindowWednesday: We are incredibly fortunate to have stores create window features of our books. We want to highlight their amazing work here on our blog for you to see (and perhaps you’ll discover a new local bookstore).
Mabel’s Fables
662 Mt Pleasant Rd, Toronto, ON M4S 2N3
KidLit Halloween Costume: Fairy Science
Dress up like your favorite KidLit characters this Halloween! Today’s outfit is inspired by Esther from Fairy Science. We’ve done the work and searched for all the pieces for you!
Antenna: lilecreations | Wings: Little Fairy Wings | Top: KidsDesignByChris | Dress: Dresshead.com | Leggings: Old Navy | Boots: McKinley
Fairy Science
By Ashley Spires
ISBN 9780735264250 | Tundra Books
40 Pages | Ages 3-7 | Hardcover
Esther the fairy doesn’t believe in magic. But fairies are all about magic, despite Esther’s best efforts to reveal the science of their world. No matter how she and her bird, Albert, explain that rainbows are refracted light rather than a path to gold, or that mist is water evaporating rather than an evil omen, or the importance of the scientific method, her fairymates would rather just do magic. So when the other fairies’ solution to helping a dying tree is to do a mystical moonlight dance, Esther decides to take it upon herself to resuscitate the tree . . . with the scientific method, some hypothesizing, a few experiments and the heady conclusion that trees need sunlight to live! But while Esther manages to save the tree, she can’t quite change the minds of her misguided fairymates . . . or can she?
KidLit Halloween Costume: Alma and the Beast
Dress up like your favorite KidLit characters this Halloween! Today’s outfit is inspired by the Beast’s a.k.a. Mala from Alma and the Beast. We’ve done the work and searched for all the pieces for you!
Hat: Miss Knit Nat | Dress: Vintag Dress | Boots: Patricia Blanchet
Alma and the Beast
By Esmé Shapiro
ISBN 9780735263963 | Tundra Books
44 Pages | Ages 3-7 | Hardcover
Alma lives happily in her hairy world, where she can braid the trees, comb the grass, pet the roof and feed her plumpooshkie butterfly. Until one day . . . a hairless, button-nosed beast appears in the garden! At first Alma is scared but when she realizes the beast is lost and misses her hairless home, Alma offers to help her find her way back. As the two take a fantastical journey through the red-headed woods and the bearded mushroom glen to the beast’s bald abode, they discover that they are much more alike than different.
This quirky and charming story about friendship, empathy and perspective invites readers into a surreal, fantastical world that evokes Alice in Wonderland, Where the Wild Things Are and The Lorax.