The Brilliant Ms. Bangle

By Cara Devins, K-Fai Steele (illustrator),

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Book description

A brilliant librarian helps students to welcome big changes in this picture book by Cara Devins with illustrations from K-Fai Steele.

It’s a new school year, and something is different. The students’ beloved librarian, Ms. Stack, has retired. The new librarian, Ms. Bangle, is not the same! She has different…

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1 author picked The Brilliant Ms. Bangle as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I consider picture books a success if they make me want to hug them, and this book totally delivered on that count.

This book is about some students who find out their school librarian hasn’t returned for the new school year. They vow to ignore the replacement until the beloved Ms. Stack (ha!) comes back. Their plan is foiled — or is it? — by Ms. Bangle, the new librarian.

This book has more text than a lot of picture books released today, but it totally works. And, it is full of hilarious asides including references to lithographic printing, hemming…

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