books i've read february 2023

 2.1.23

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (A)

2.2.23

• Lore Olympus Volume Two by Rachel Smythe (GN)

2.3.23

• Sparks!: Double Dog Dare by Ian Boothby & Nina Matsumoto (GN)
• Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensee & KC Oster (GN)
• Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky (GN)
• Sunny the Shark by Remy Lai (GN)
• Zoey and Sassafras: Monsters and Mold by Asia Citro & Marion Lindsay (Y)
• Zoey and Sassafras: Merhorses and Bubbles by Asia Citro & Marion Lindsay (Y)

2.4.23

• Sarabella's Thinking Cap by Judy Schachner (PB)
• Knock, Knock! by Saxton Freymann, Tomie dePaola, Dan Yaccarino, Peter H. Reynolds, Sophie Blackall, Yumi Heo, Boris Kulikov, Brett Helquist, Henry Cole, Judy Schachner, Chris Raschka, Laurie Keller, David Small, & Jon J. Muth (PB)
• Duck Tents by Lynne Berry & Hiroe Nakata (PB)
• Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis (PB)
• Ravi's Roar by Tom Percival (PB)
• Ducking for Apples by Lynne Berry & Hiroe Nakata (PB)
• Very Lulu: The (Mostly) True Story of a Training School Dropout by Stephanie Campisi & Jessica Gibson (PB)
• Crafty Chloe: Dress-Up Mess-Up by Kelly DiPucchio & Heather Ross (PB)
• My Hands Tell a Story by Kelly Starling Lyons & Tonya Engel (PB)
• Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist by Barbara Herkert & Vanessa Brantley-Newton (YNF)
• Stretchy and Beanie by Judy Schachner (PB)
• Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou by Bethany Hegedus & Tonya Engel (YNF)
• Salsa Lullaby by Jen Arena & Erika Meza (PB)
• Lady Liberty's Holiday by Jen Arena & Matt Hunt (PB)
• As Cool as It Gets by Jory John & Pete Oswald (PB)
• Crumbs by Danie Stirling (GN)

2.5.23

• Finding Me by Viola Davis (ANF)
• Esme's Birthday Conga Line by Lourdes Heuer & Marissa Valdez (Y)
• The Wump World by Bill Peet (PB)
• Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy & Janelle Washington (YNF)
• The Last Rainbow Bird by Nora Brech (PB)
• Dear Mr. Dickens by Nancy Churnin & Bethany Stancliffe (YNF)
• Wild Peace by Irene Latham & Il Sung Na (PB)
• Ferocious Fluffity by Erica S. Perl & Henry Cole (PB)
• My Paati's Saris by Jyoti Rajan Gopal & Art Twink (PB)
• Revolutionary Prudence Wright: Leading the Minute Women in the Fight for Independence by Beth Anderson & Susan Reagan (YNF)
• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert (YA)

2.6.23

• Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution edited by Mark Eisner & Tina Escaja (ANF)

2.7.23

• Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi (YA)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Imbalance by Faith Erin Hicks & Peter Wartman (GN)

2.10.23

• Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper & Cathy Ann Johnson (YNF)
• The Story of Ukraine: An Anthem of Glory and Freedom by Olena Kharchenko, Michael Sampson, & Polina Doroshenko (YNF)
• Where We Come from by Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, & John Coy (YNF)
• The Poem Forest: Poet W.S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew from Scratch by Carrie Fountain & Chris Turnham (YNF)
• Still Mine by Jayne Pillemer & Sheryl Murray (PB)
• So Much Snow by Kristen Schroeder & Sarah Jacoby (PB)
• The Sun Is Late and So Is the Farmer by Philip C. Stead & Erin E. Stead (PB)
• A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni (PB)
• Yo, Vikings! by Judith Byron Schachner (PB)
• Pezzettino by Leo Lionni (PB)
• Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos & Jacqueline Alcantara (PB)
• In the Rabbitgarden by Leo Lionni (PB)
• Now? Not Yet! by Gina Perry (PB)
• Charlie & Mouse Are Magic by Laurel Snyder & Emily Hughes (Y)
• A Bear Named Bjorn by Delphine Perret (Y)
• The Catalogue of Hugs by Joshua David Stein, Augustus Heeren Stein, & Elizabeth Lilly (PB)
• Thunderous by M.L. Smoker & Natalie Peeterse (GN)

2.11.23

• Bird, Balloon, Bear by Il Sung Na (PB)
• Queen Elizabeth by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Melissa Lee Johnson (YNF)
• That's My Carrot! by Il Sung Na (PB)
• The World Is Family by Rosie Adams & Frances Ives (PB)
• Dim Sum, Here We Come! by Maple Lam (PB)
• Nubby by Dan Richards & Shanda McCloskey (PB)
• To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and 'Star Trek' Helped Advocate Civil Rights by Angela Dalton & Lauren Semmer (YNF)
• Zoey and Sassafras: The Pod and the Bog by Asia Cipro & Marion Lindsay (Y)
• Zoey and Sassafras: Unicorns and Germs by Asia Cipro & Marion Lindsay (Y)
• Little Guides to Great Lives: Maya Angelou by Danielle Jawando (YNF)
• She Persisted: Margaret Chase Smith by Ruby Shamir (YNF)
• She Persisted: Sally Ride by Atia Abawi (YNF)
• Doodleville: Art Attacks! by Chad Sell (GN)
• Mason Mooney: Paranormal Investigator by Seaerra Miller (GN)
• Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely (GN)
• Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam (ANF)

2.12.23

• Cowie by Elizabeth Rose Stanton (PB)
• Iced Out by CK Smouha & Isabella Bunnell (PB)
• Bear Moves by Ben Bailey Smith aka Doc Brown & Sav Akyuz (PB)
• Charlie & Mouse Even Better by Laurel Snyder & Emily Hughes (Y)
• The Snail by Emily Hughes (YNF)
• Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace & Bryan Collier (YNF)
• That's Not My Name! by Anoosha Syed (PB)
• If You're a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist by Gavin Grimm, Kyle Lukoff, & J Yang (YNF)
• Little Bat Up All Day by Brian Lies (PB)
• Hide & Seek by Il Sung Na (PB)
• A Book of Babies by Il Sung Na (PB)
• A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant & Melissa Sweet (YNF)
• What's Sweeter by June Tate (PB)
• Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm's Fight for Change by Tameka Fryer Brown & Nina Crews (YNF)
• Winter Dance by Marion Dane Bauer & Richard Jones (PB)
• The Power Book: What It Is, Who Has It, and Why? by Claire Saunders, Hazel Songhurst, Georgia Amson-Bradshaw, Minna Salami, Mik Scarlet, Joelle Avelino, & David Breadbent (YNF)
• The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur (ANF)
• Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, & Berenice Nelle (GN)

2.13.23

• The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson (A)

2.14.23

• Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (YA)

2.17.23

• Garlic & the Witch by Bree Paulsen (GN)

2.18.23

• If This Gets Out by Sohpie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich (YA)
• Sparks!: Future Purrfect by Ian Boothby & Nina Matsumoto (GN)
• Siuil, a Run: The Girl from the Other Side #12 by Nagabe (M)
• How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by K.C. Davis (ANF)

2.19.23

• Yetis Are the Worst! by Alex Willan (PB)
• Once Upon a Goat by Dan Richards & Eric Barclay (PB)
• Skater Cielo by Rachel Katstaller (PB)
• Books Aren't for Eating by Carlie Sorosiak & Manu Montoya (PB)
• Antoine's Tale: An Extraordinary Shelter Dog's Journey by Janet Curran (YNF)
• Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace by Anne Renaud & Ana Salopek (YNF)
• Runs with the Stars by Darcy Whitecrow, Heather M. O'Connor, & Lenny Lishchenko (PB)
• Michael Jordan by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Lo Harris (YNF)

2.20.23

• The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston (YA)

2.21.23

• Brave Every Day by Trudy Ludwig & Patrice Barton (PB)
• Scaredy Bath by Zoe Foster Blake & Daniel Gray-Barnett (PB)
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: The Courage to Dream by Frederick Joseph & Nikkolas Smith (PB)

2.24.23

• Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet by His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Patrick McDonnell (ANF)
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (ANF)

2.25.23

• Charlie & Mouse Outdoors by Laurel Snyder & Emily Hughes (Y)
• Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy by Laurel Snyder & Emily Hughes (Y)
• Charlie & Mouse Lost and Found by Laurel Snyder & Emily Hughes (Y)
• Fashionista: Fashion Your Feelings by Maxine Beneba Clarke (PB)
• Anna Pavlova by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Sue Downing (YNF)
• Opal Lee: And What It Means to Be Free by Alice Faye Duncan & Keturah A. Bobo (YNF)
• Whimsy's Heavy Things by Julie Kraulis (PB)
• Nervous Nigel by Bethany Christou (PB)
• Tim's Hat by Jacqueline East & Rose Clayton (PB)
• Valentine's Guest House by Sam Sharland (PB)
• Portrait of an Artist: Frida Kahlo by Sandra Dieckmann & Lucy Brownridge (YNF)
• Something Happened to My Dad: A Story About Immigration and Family Separation by Ann Hazzard, Vivianne Aponte Rivera, & Gloria Felix (PB)
• Why Johnny Doesn't Flap by Clay Morton, Gail Morton, & Alex Merry (PB)
• Best Day Ever! by Marilyn Singer & Leah Nixon (PB)
• Be Thankful for Trees by Harriet Ziefert & Brian Fitzgerald (YNF)
• Sam's Pet Temper by Sangeeta Bhadra & Marion Arbona (PB)

2.26.23

• Julia, Child by Kyo Maclear & Julie Morstad (PB)
• The Ocean in Your Bathtub by Seth Fishman & Isabel Greenberg (YNF)
• I Want My Book Back by Viviane Elbee & Nicole Miles (PB)
• Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy Denise & Loris Lora (YNF)
• Zuri Ray and the Backyard Bash by Tami Charles & Sharon Sordo (PB)
• Gold by Jed Alexander (PB)
• A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexicah Word Painters by Duncan Tonatiuh (YNF)
• How to Hear the Universe: Gaby Gonzalez and the Search for Einstein's Ripples in Space-Time by Patricia Valdez & Sara Palacios (YNF)
• Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (YA)

2.28.23

• My Bindi by Gita Varadarajan & Archana Sreenivasan (PB)
• No! Said Custard the Squirrel by Sergio Ruzzier (PB)
• Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land by Mirelle Ortega (YNF)
• Standing in the Need of a Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford & Frank Morrison (YNF)

02.23 total: 139

2 adult fiction; 14 graphic novels; 11 youth fiction; 65 picture books; 33 youth nonfiction; 7 adult nonfiction; 6 young adult fiction; 1 manga