Welcome to Favorites Month! Each week in December, Chrissie is sharing a category of her favorite kidlit of 2024. This week, we're talking short chapter books.
On this show, short chapter books are defined as highly illustrated fiction narratives told across chapters in under 200 pages.
Featured Titles
- A Day with Mousse by Claire Lebourg, translated by Sophie Lewis
- Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke, translated by Emily Hughes
- Drag and Rex: Sweet and Silly by Susan Lubner, illustrated by Blythe Russo
- Lone Wolf Goes to School and Lone Wolf Gets a Pet by Kiah Thomas, illustrated by K. Fai Steele
- Welcome to the Woofmore and The Woofmore Is Not Haunted by Donna Gephart and Lori Haskins Houran, illustrated by Josh Cleland
- Loose Threads by Isol, translated by Lawrence Schimel (note this title was inadvertently out of alphabetical order. It happens!)
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