Vi Hughes
September 15th, 2026
We all love an aardvark, and kidlit does not lack for them, from Marc Brown’s Arthur to Kes Gray and Jim Field’s Oi Aardvark! What does this one bring to the table? In Along Came an Aardvark (Plumleaf $22.95), illustrated by Lydia Ramsey, the beast is less hero than hook. Lonely Sam O. Dictionary swaps Miss Muffet’s spider for an unfamiliar animal, and suddenly children want his definitions. North Shore writer Vi Hughes draws on work as a classroom teacher, elementary-school principal and reading instructor to argue that fact and nonsense belong at the same story time. 9781997872016
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