We're back with more Picture Book Picks! We have more great mentor texts for you around this month's theme: Mental Health Awareness. Listen to the episode to see why we made our picks!

Kim's Picks:

Unique Structure: A Whale of a Mistake by Ioana Hobai

Illustrations: Out of a Jar by Deborah Marcero

Silly: I am STUCK by Julia Mills

Rhyme: Even Superheroes Make Mistakes by Shelly Becker and Eda Kaban

Non-Fiction: The Girl Who Figured it Out: The Inspiring True Story of Wheelchair Athlete Minda Dentler Becoming and Ironman World Champion by Minda Dentler and illustrated by Stephanie Dehennin

Kirsti's Picks:

Silly: Out of a Jar by Deborah Marcero

Rhyme: Like a Girl by Lori Degman & Mara Penny

Non-fiction: A Walk in the Words by Hudson Talbott

Unique structure: The Whatifs by Emily Kilgore & Zoe Persico

Illustrations: After the Fall by Dan Santat

We can't wait for you to hear our conversation with Lydia Lukidis, Sawyer Cloud, and Josh Gregory about this star of a biography that shines a light on the first Black woman in space! Don't miss Dancing Through Space: Dr. Mae Jemison Soars to New Heights!

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Website: http://www.lydialukidis.com/

Instagram: @cosmiclydia7

***Find out more about Sawyer here:

Website: https://www.sawyer.cloud/

Instagram:@sawyercloud01

We're back with more Picture Book Picks! We have more great mentor texts for you all around the theme of poetry! Listen to the episode to see why we made our picks!

Kim's Picks:

Nonfiction: A Stone is a Story by Leslie Barnard Booth, illustrated by Marc Martin

Silly: Animals in Pants: A Poetry Picture Book by Suzy Levinson, illustrated by Kristen and Kevin Howdeshell

Structure: Body Music: Poems About the Noises Your Body Makes by Jane Yolk & Ryan G. Van Cleave illustrated by Luis San Vicente

Illustrations: Harlem at Four by Dr. Michael Datcher, illustrated by Frank Morrison

Rhyme: Cool Off and Ride: A Trolley Trip to Beat the Heat by Claudia Friddell, illustrated by Jenn Harney

Kirsti's Picks:

Silly: Animals in Pants: A Poetry Picture Book Hardcover by Suzy Levinson and Kevin Howdeshell & Kristen Howdeshell

Rhyme: Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck Heidi E. Y. Stemple and Jane Yolen, Eugenia Nobati

Non-fiction: There Was a Party for Langston:King O Letters by Jason Reynolds , Jerome Pumphrey (Illustrator)

Unique Structure: Poetree Shauna LaVoy Reynolds, illos by Shahrzad Maydani

Illustrations: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, art Vivian Mineker