(3) K-3 Translated by Audrey Hall. Illustrated by José Sanabria. A sentient newspaper offers a day's worth of impressions: it experiences loneliness after its peers are purchased ("One by one, everyone's life story began"), pride when someone uses one of its pages to clean a window, etc.; emotionally attuned collage art enhances these observations. The newspaper is so sympathetic that readers won't think twice about the odd premise of this Swiss import.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(2) K-3 A luxury liner is downgraded to a freighter, then abandoned. A once-wealthy family ends up in an impoverished village, which is then cleared by the landowner. Mixed-media illustrations become muted as circumstances grow more difficult. Happily, the villagers make a new home, filling the ship's deck with bright tents. This affecting book is an excellent reminder of the value of belonging when all seems lost.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2016