Picture Book

The Tiny Chef: and da mishing weshipee blook / Rachel Larsen, Adam Reid, Ozi Akturk

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The Tiny Chef: and da mishing weshipee blook
By: Rachel Larsen, Adam Reid, Ozi Akturk
Genre: Children’s, Picture Book
Number of Pages: 40
Published: September 15, 2020
Publisher: Razorbill
Dates Read: October 20, 2025
Format: Library Book / Hardcover

From The Tiny Chef Show comes a storytime adventure about Tiny Chef and his hunt to find his missing recipe book.

I didn’t become a fan of Tiny Chef until recent months, so I am a bit late getting my hands on a copy of this book to read from the library. I could hear Tiny Chef through the pages, so it was a fun read for me (because sometimes you do need to read it aloud to understand what Chef’s saying).

One of the fun things I like about Tiny Chef is that he is so relatable and even though he’s tiny, he’s still got big emotions. We can all learn from Tiny Chef.

Overall, any lover of Tiny Chef will love this book and anyone who hasn’t met Tiny Chef, this is a good little place to start.

Spooky / Sally Anne Garland

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Spooky
By: Sally Anne Garland
Genre: Children's, Picture Book
Number of Pages: 40
Published: August 5, 2025
Publisher: Sunbird Books
Dates Read: October 20, 2025
Format: Library Book / Hardcover

When a family moves into a new house, they quickly realize they’re not alone. With patience and care maybe their new housemate will come out of the shadows.

What an adorable children’s book about not only moving into a new house and the adjustments that come with that, but also the adjustment that comes with a new furry member of the family.

This is adorable artwork, but also – the cat carrying around its little toy mouse in its mouth was the most adorable thing.

I know this is a children’s book, so maybe I am thinking too much into this for a children’s book, but I want to know what Spooky was doing before the family moved in, because it mentions the house had been empty for a while. It only really takes the family a day to figure out that there’s a cat in their house and to start leaving it food and water, but that still means they were all alone for a bit!

Overall, this is adorable and any cat lover will love this but this is also a good story about adjustment and patience for children.