Illustrator’s agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. It’s a quiet but effective reminder of the value of practice. Smart design decisions-including a square trim size, origami-patterned end pages, and subtle fold marks that divide Karas’s ( A Poem in Your Pocket) images into vignettes-create a graceful visual underpinning to the theme, and an origami project is included for readers. With the family fed up, Joey heads to his favorite Mexican restaurant, where the table napkins give him an idea. After a Japanese student’s mother introduces origami to Joey’s class, he dives headlong into practicing, using whatever he can get his hands on-homework, his sister’s sheet music, and money from his mother’s purse. But it takes lots of practice He finds the perfect place to hone his skills at the local restaurant. Brian Karas RELEASE DATE: Joey loves things that fold, like maps, his accordion, and even his foldaway bed, so when he sees a classmate’s mother folding an origami crane, he’s captivated. When readers first see him, he’s staring dreamily at a neatly folded taco he also loves maps and the accordion, and he even sleeps in a folding bed (one that doesn’t like to stay unfolded, not that Joey appears to mind). After his classmates mother teaches him origami, Joey is determined to be a master folder. MORE-IGAMI by Dori Kleber illustrated by G. The hero of Kleber’s debut, a brown-skinned boy named Joey, is obsessed with all things folded. From collecting snow globes to inventing palindromes, unusual passions and interests abound among humans young and old.

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