The image of the tenants enjoying their moon pops, which also adorns the book’s cover, shows the creatures gazing incredulously at their gleaming treats in the dark of night, their faces illuminated by their moon pops’ light. BookPage is a recommendation guide for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres as chosen by our editors. The moon is melting, but Granny saves the day in this picture book originally published in South Korea and translated into English by Jieun Kiaer. I had *no* idea what was coming next while I read Moon Pops by this 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award-winning author-illustrator - and I love that about it. Vanessa, an LE teacher, is reading The Wisdom Wheel by Alberto Villolda and re-reading Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain.

English translation available here (but you can't really see the amazing pictures, alas): https://www.Trying in vain to get to sleep, the residents of a cramped apartment building turn on their air conditioners and fans, and leave their fridges open, causing a power outage!

This story shows the compassion of a stranger to her neighbors and her creativity while trying to solve the problem of her neighbors struggling with the extreme heat. I thought the story was interesting and I think kids will have a really fun time making the sounds highlighted throughout the story. And so on, until Mom’s enticing promise of treasure in the deep sea persuades her little Treasure Hunter to take a dive. The entire book is marvelously crafted with a languid slowness of the heat at first and then the drama of the melting moon.After working in advertising and multimedia for children, she began to create her own picture books when her daughter was born. It’s a dystopian novel centering Indigenous voices and issues in a world ravaged by ecological, as well as societal crisis.