Coco All Year Round

Coco is a fluffy yellow chick, and in this picture book she lives through a whole calendar year. The book moves month by month and holiday by holiday, from St. Patrick's Day in spring to Christmas at the end of the year, and shows her enjoying both sunny and rainy days.

Her year includes a winter ice skating party, a sneaky April Fool's Day prank, a summer road trip and a Thanksgiving dinner that welcomes birds of every kind. Each scene is a colorful photograph full of small imaginative details, paired with short, quirky verses. Because the pages follow the calendar in order, the book works as a first introduction to the months, seasons and holidays for young children.

Sloane Tanen, the author, is an artist. Coco first appeared in her earlier book Where Is Coco Going? Tanen has also written two books for adults, Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same and Going for the Bronze.