(3) K-3 Illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev. At night, Daddy begins work as a train conductor in London while son Harry is at home in the country with Mummy, Gran, and Baby, enjoying the end of his day; spreads alternately show Daddy's and Harry's routines. This reassuring night-in-the-life is made even more so with cozy ink and watercolor art that captures the joyful reunion when Daddy's day ends and Harry's begins.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Ancient Egyptian boy Khepri lyrically narrates a boat ride down the Nile that ends in Thebes with his father handing him special reeds for writing. The warm father-son relationship and Khepri's feelings of strangeness at beginning school will help today's readers relate. Illustrator Comport combines the two-dimensionality of ancient Egyptian art with more naturalistic techniques. An appended double-page spread extends Khepri's fictitious story. Reading list. Glos.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2018

(3) K-3 Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. When a bear eats the collection of St. Augustine's letters that Brother Hugo had borrowed from the monastery library, the abbot makes him create a new one. Inspired by a note on a twelfth-century manuscript, this humorous tale is lavishly illustrated with watercolor and ink in the style of medieval illuminated manuscripts. The sophisticated vocabulary and erudite topic necessitate the helpful back matter. Glos.

Reviewer: Chelsey Philpot