Oh, Laurie Halse Anderson, how I love you. Isn’t that a bit scary? But I do. My admiration and respect for you just went through the roof. Last night was one of the funnest book-ish nights I’ve had. A highlight for sure. When I introduced myself as saying, “You might not recognize my [...]
I was really excited when my local independent bookstore, The King’s English Bookshop, put out their upcoming author tour list and saw that Jodi Picoult was making a stop in Salt Lake City to read from her newest book, Handle with Care. Of course, I had to go. She’s huge!!
I discovered that Jodi Picoult is [...]
Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston is this years Young Adult Graphic Novel Cybils winner. I’ll readily admit that I’m not well read in the graphic novel genre but I thought this book was really cute. I don’t think cute is exactly what Tamaki and Rolston were going after but I loved Emi’s [...]
I read Jellaby, written and illustrated by Kean Soo, for my Children’s Literature Book Club in which we were reading titles for this past year’s Cybils; Jellaby was shortlisted in the elementary/middle grade fiction graphic novel category.
My three year old picked up this book a lot while I had it sitting around. He liked the [...]
Chiggers by Hope Larson is a graphic novel geared for the young adult crowd and in all actuality, I don’t have much to say about it, so this will be a pretty short review.
Chiggers is about a group of girls who go to summer camp. It’s the same camp that Abby goes to every summer [...]
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