As a person who loves seeing the return of all our plant and animal pals when the weather gets warm again, I was happy to find the late April Pulley Sayre's In Between among the picture books at Central Library. Filled with beautiful close-up photographs of all kinds of plants (some native to Wisconsin!) and animals—from grey hairstreak butterflies to baby squirrels to sleepy gulls—Sayre tells a gentle poem-like story of different kinds of in-betweenness, illustrating each one with a perfectly apt creature portrait. "In between inside and outside" shows a chipmunk peeking out from a wall; a junco rests, then takes flight from a twig, "in between holding tight and letting go." A quietly immersive story that explores a sometimes difficult feeling while letting the reader in on often unnoticed moments in nature, In Between is a plain good book to read together.
--reviewed by Annie A.