Wind Song! Biscuit Flies A Kite by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

It's MARCH! The Earth has come a long way since the fall solstice signaled the advent of cold days, but now the days are creeping close to the spring equinox with longer--and warmer--days. Spring cometh soon, but first--March winds do blow! What should kids do?

Right! GO FLY A KITE! And Biscuit and his fellow pet Puddles are taking their girls outside to give it a try. They have bright-colored kites with long, long strings wrapped around a stick to hold them by, that is, if they can get their kites UP.

But first the pets have to try to play with the sticks and run away with them. Biscuit and Puddles get the kite strings all tangled up.

The girls are patient with their pets, and when the strings are untangled, it is time to try to get their kites to catch the wind.

READY?

HERE COMES THE WIND!

But the two kites are stuck on the launching pad. (Well, actually--stuck on a bush!) Time to try again. Hopefully, the girls jump to toss their kites high to catch the wind.

WOOF!

BOW WOW!

But their strings snap in a gust of wind and only the fast moves of Puddles and Biscuit save the day--with historic leaps to catch the trailing strings!

PUDDLES CAN JUMP HIGH!

But the girls give it one more try... And the third time is the charm for the two girls and their pets. They have LIFT OFF, in Alyssa Satin Cupucilli's salute to March winds in her Biscuit Flies a Kite (My First I Can Read), (HarperCollins) with the help of her artistic partner, Pat Schories, in this breezy seasonal My First I-Can-Read book for young dog and book lovers. It's time for the two plucky girls and their pets to lean back on a park bench and admire their kites flying high in the spring breeze. As always, Biscuit is there for memorable childhood occasions for young beginning readers.

What Can Two Do? One, Two, Grandma Loves You! by Shelley Becker

ONE, TWO, GRANDMA LOVES YOU!

Grandma and her little granddaughter love to be together. They love to do the same things--draw pictures of each other, shop in toy stores, go fishing, and make pancakes, paint pictures, and paint their nails the same colors!

But the visit must end sometime, and when the girl goes back home, Grandma is so alone.

What can they do?

They yak on the phone for hours. They mark their calendars and cross off the days until they can get together again! They mail each other paintings and drawings of things they like to do together, and post the pictures everywhere. And they can't wait to see each other again!

"NINE, TEN, PLAN AGAIN!"

They count the days and think of ways to have fun the next time they are together, and Grandmother and Granddaughter count the ways they can be together, in Shelly Becker's latest, One, Two, Grandma Loves You (Abrams Appleseed, 2021). Author Becker delivers the rhymes and artist Dan Yaccarino provides the comic drawings of the good times, in this easy-to-read, easy-to-love book.

Says School Library Journal's starred review,, "Why does it ever have to end? The details in the illustrations will have children poring over the pages, where the clues to good times past and present add up to a generous look at the special bonds of an extended family."