The Kids Reading Across RI Committee is proud to announce that Sanity and Tallulah by Molly Brooks is this year's selection! Get ready for two clever friends, a three headed cat, space hijinks, and a bit of mystery.

From the publisher:

Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So naturally, when gifted scientist Sanity uses her lab skills and energy allowance to create a definitely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten, she has to show Tallulah. But Princess, Sparkle, Destroyer of Worlds is a bit of a handful, and it isn’t long before the kitten escapes to wreak havoc on the space station. The girls will have to turn Wilnick upside down to find her, but not before causing the whole place to evacuate! Can they save their home before it’s too late? Readers will be over the moon for this rollicking space adventure by debut author Molly Brooks.

Reviews:

Kirkus

Good Comics for Kids

Publishers Weekly

Best of:

Kirkus: Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of 2018

Heavy Medal Mock Newbery Blog: Cardboard Castles and Three-Headed Cats

Miss Merry Liberry: Best Books of 2018 According to Me

In the next month you will receive information about requesting free copies of Sanity and Tallulah to use for KRARI book discussions throughout the spring and summer. As always, these books will belong to your library and you may decide how you want to distribute them (give them to book discussion participants to keep, catalog them, etc.). We will begin distributing the books in early March through OLIS-LORI delivery.

KRARI book sets are also made available to school librarians. In the past, volunteers from the RI Center for the Book have distributed book sets to requesting schools that do not receive OLIS-LORI delivery. However, if you're looking for a way to connect with schools, you may want to consider being a pick-up location for book sets requested by school librarians in your community. (Or you could offer to deliver the set to the school, a definite "in" for stopping by to talk up your summer reading program!) Let us know if you're interested in being a pick-up location and you'll be contacted if a school librarian from your district requests a book set.

2019 marks KRARI's 10th year! Have ideas on how to celebrate? Let us know and consider participating in the May 4th kickoff!

A brief KRARI history:

2010 Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks by Kate Klise

2011 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

2012 Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine

2013 Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

2014 Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

2015 Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo Event Pictures

2016 Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson Event Pictures

2017 Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan Event Pictures

2018 The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez Event Pictures

Email: danielle.margarida@olis.ri.gov
Website: http://www.olis.ri.gov/youth/krari/index.php
Phone: 401-574-9309