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the best book ever (this week)
Five picture books reviewed, including a performance of the Nutcracker, a snake-loving family and the odd sister out, and the greatest ancient artifacts in history curated in one illustrated museum’s historical collection.
Books reviewed on this episode:
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Use Your Imagination
by Nicola O’Byrne
Nosy Crow
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Bea in the Nutcracker
by Rachel Isadora
Nancy Paulsen Books
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I (Don’t) Like Snakes
by Nicola Davies; illustrated by Luciano Lozano
Candlewick Press
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Historium
curated by Richard Wilkinson and Jo Nelson
Big Picture Press
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Three Bears in a Boat
by David Soman
Dial Books