Add in the art of Brendan Wenzel, and how well it reads across a room, and you’ve got yourself the makings of what might possibly be the best readaloud picture book of the year.Ī boy and his whirly-twirly toy are just the first things to disappear down the gullet of a hungry yellow snake. The book’s lilting rhymes, when practiced beforehand, have the potential to render an audience entranced. But the nice thing about Bernstrom’s book One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree is that it doesn’t need to rely on those extra features to enrapture an audience. It takes a certain magical combination of art and text to render a story readaloud-perfect. While every picture book (even the wordless ones) can be read aloud to a large group of children, only a select few thrive in that environment. Like any children’s librarian, I like to assess each picture book that crosses by my eyeballs for readaloud potential. Katherine Tegen Books (an imprint of Harper Collins) One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree
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