Everyone wants I Want a Dog!
"Austrian author-illustrator Bansch writes with a dry humor even as the text effectively conveys Lisa's longing, and the solution is both a reasonable and creative one. . . While some dog-dreaming youngsters may hold out for a more wish-fulfilling ending, the practical among the audience will seize on Lisa's solution as a possible loophole and begin trawling through their local dog parks for dogs in need of kids." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Bernadette Watts
has been published by NorthSouth Books since the 1960s: "I have always written stories and drawn pictures. The two things have always been linked. I did not choose to make picture books at a certain age, it was there right from the start, just like eating or walking." Read the rest of the interview with the author/illustrator of this coming season's Smallest Snowflake.

"An earnest, unfettered effort"
to win over all kinds of readers and listeners," writes Booklist of the newest book from Kathi Bhend and Eveline Hasler. "A meditative sense of mystery sets this book apart." --Booklist

Halloween
Behn's ode to the holiday ("Tonight is the night / when dead leaves fly / like witches on switches / across the sky") is accompanied by illustrations depicting three trick-or-treaters trekking through a nighttime landscape complete with glowing jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, and skeletons. Couch's atmospheric art adroitly conjures up the sometimes spooky, sometimes giddy spirit of Halloween." --Booklist