Loves & Hugs

First, heard that word WILDWOOD in “HUGS FOR PEARL” by Paul Schmid (HERE).  Pearl attends Wildwood School.  She also is a fun loving hugging porcupine and you know that’s gonna be an issue…such a sweet book!

Hugs for Pearl (c) Paul Schmid

Hugs for Pearl by Paul Schmid

Picture book, Ages 3+

HarperCollins, 978-0061804342, 2011

 

Now…there’s a husband and wife team (ah, sweet!) that created the popular Wildwood Chronicles together (HERE).  And I have to say that Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis did an epic job with their adventure WILDWOOD.

Wildwood (c) Carson Ellis

Wildwood by Colin Meloy (author) and Carson Ellis (illustrator)

Fiction, 560 pages, Ages 9+

Balzer + Bray, 978-0062024688, 2011

 

And you can’t say the word WILDWOOD without thinking of the book “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, Harper Collins, 978-0064431781, 1988.  In searching for the illustration by Sendak when the Wild Thing hugs…I found this work by Lidia Puspita of http://monyetbuluk.blogspot.com/ says it all…

Hug Hug (c) Lidia Puspita Dulam

 

And just for fun… HUG TIME by Patrick McDonnell, LB KIDS, 978-0316182959, 2012 and also, TIME FOR A HUG by Phyllis Gershator and Mim Green, illustrated by David Walker, Sterling Children’s Books, 978-1402778629, 2012 are really good Book Nook reads!

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