When’s My Birthday? Hardcover – Picture Book, September 5, 2017 by Julie Fogliano

Description

Author: Fogliano Julie

Brand: Roaring Brook Press

Format: Picture Book

Package Dimensions: 17x288x290

Number Of Pages: 40

Release Date: 05-09-2017

Details: Product Description
In this enthusiastic celebration of all things BIRTHDAY, acclaimed author Julie Fogliano and award-winning illustrator Christian Robinson bring you the perfect birthday book! Join our excited narrator as she lists all the things that will make her birthday the BEST birthday.when’s my birthday? where’s my birthday? how many days until my birthday? i’d like a pony for my birthday and a necklace for my birthday. i’d like a chicken for my birthday. i’d like a ball to bounce and bounce. i’d like a big cake on my birthday with lots of chocolate on my birthday and lots of candles on my birthday 1,2,3,4,5, and 6!2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Honor Award When’s My Birthday? is a School Library Journal Best Book of 2017, a Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2017, a Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2017, an NPR Best Book of 2017, a Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017, and a 2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Book.
From School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 1—An exuberant ode to children’s anticipation for the most special day each year: their birthday. Fogliano’s insistent verse wastes no time and doesn’t even stop for traditional capitalization—just like the young narrators, who want to know, “when’s my birthday?/where’s my birthday?/how many days until/my birthday?” They continue breathlessly, wondering if they will “sing so happy happy?” on the big day. The exaggerated excitement is echoed in Robinson’s clever use of scale, as in a spread featuring a gigantic present tied with white twine. A little girl reaches up to pull the string, dwarfed by its size. The long and tall trim size is also ideal for displaying a towering, swimming pool—size birthday cake so large that the young birthday boy needs a ladder to reach the candles. A muted palette of slate blue, mustard yellow, forest green, and burnt sienna, sometimes appearing on a rich black background, reflects the festive tone of the text without tipping over into what could be—in the hands of a less skilled poet and artist—overwhelming or obnoxious in its fervor. Instead, readers will appreciate and immediately recognize the joyful expectancy. VERDICT Buoyant and perfectly childlike, meant to be read aloud with gusto and a keen sense of urgency. A first purchase for any library, and a ready-made gift for home collections.—Kiera Parrott, School Library Journal
Review
* “Buoyant and perfectly childlike, meant to be read aloud with gusto and a keen sense of urgency.”―School Library Journal, starred review*”A gift of a picture book that’s at once nostalgic and fresh.”―Kirkus Reviews, starred review*”There might be a more perfect picture book about birthdays out there, but you’d be hard-pressed to find it.”―Booklist, starred review“With playful illustrations and text that bounces like a bouquet of balloons, if you were to blow out your candles and wish for a perfect birthday book, this is what you’d get.” ―NPR
About the Author
Julie Fogliano is the New York Times bestselling author of
And Then It’s Spring and
If You Want to See a Whale as well as the poetry collection,
When Green Becomes Tomatoes. Recipient of the 2013 the Ezra Jack Keats award, her books have been translated into more than ten languages. Julie lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and three children. When she is not folding laundry or wondering what to make for dinner, she is staring out the window waiting for a book idea to fly by.

Christian Robinson’s award-winning books for young readers include
Josephine, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book as well as a Sibert Honor Book, and
Harlem’s Little Blackbird, which was an NAACP Image Award nominee. His book
Last Stop on Market Street earned four starred reviews and was on the
New York Times bestseller list.