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How do you measure a year of giant panda cub cuteness?

Another year, another January and I am ready to snuggle up with some delightful picture books. Now that school is back in session, perhaps you and your little ones would appreciate a bit of quiet reading time just for fun. When everything around me feels too much (come on, 2022 — you’re supposed to be better!), my brain processes things slowly — even when I’m reading. So, picture books are a perfect antidote to the woes of the world and my sluggish gray cells. If you haven’t become acquainted with the picture book genre, I recommend you give it a try.

In “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present,” Paul McCartney and the poet Paul Muldoon present the words to 154 of the former Beatle’s songs.

“McCartney III Imagined” is a revisioning of 2020’s “McCartney III,” featuring remixes, features and covers from some of the biggest names in modern music including Phoebe Bridgers, Beck, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Damon Albarn of Gorillaz and Blur. Released April 16 and born in the throes of lockdown, the record finds Paul McCartney, a legend within his own right, bringing together artists from an assortment of genres like hip-hop, R&B, alternative rock and indie. In a livestreamed conversation with Ed O’Brien, who remixed “Slidin’,” McC...

Made during what McCartney dubbed “rockdown”, last year’s DIY album McCartney III proved both playful and resilient; a timely antidote to the stifled, existential mood of the Covid era. “Curated” by himself, McCartney III Imagined is a classy set of remixes from assorted studio alchemists that allows Macca to experiment further by proxy. There are predictable hits (Beck’s dance-friendly Find My Way), a surprise miss (Damon Albarn lost in the mists of Long Tailed Winter Bird), and arresting successes (3D of Massive Attack with a 10-minute makeover of Deep Deep F...