(3) K-3 Illustrated by Julia Cairns. Poems about parents, grandparents, siblings, love, loss, and feelings fill this collection featuring poems by Arnold Adoff, Grace Nichols, and Judith Viorst, among others. While some offerings are lighthearted, other poems offer serious perspectives, such as "Always Remembering Eloise," a girl's remembrance of her "might have been" baby sister. Bright illustrations of families frame and expand the poems.

Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Amanda Hall. Boastful Lion thinks his golden crown is the most precious thing in the world in a story that meanders into the sentimental. Lion's self-important opinion seems confirmed when other animals try and fail to bring him something they consider more valuable. It is only when Lioness gives birth to a cub does Lion understand what is truly precious. Lion and his crown have a golden gleam in pictures that are colorful if a bit static.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute