When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is the perfect realistic fiction book with a fantasy twist. It’s a mystery too. As well as a coming of age, friendship book. In fact, When You Reach Me dabbles a little in many genres. In a short 197 pages, this book packs a punch! From what I’ve [...]
Well, if you are a regular reader around here you will notice the increased number of book reviews for picture books the last couple of weeks. If you don’t recall, I’m currently serving as a panelist for the Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards). In other words awesome awards given from all [...]
The New York Times Bestseller List
November 15, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham. Stories set in rural Mississippi.
THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons.
KINDRED IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the brutal murder of a colleague’s daughter; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan [...]
Okay folks. Surely you’ve seen this book around haven’t you? Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. I’d seen the cover before but had never taken the time to pick it up and so I was a tad excited when it was a book read by our fabulous librarians at our story time [...]
My boys LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. The Book That Eats People by John Perry and illustrated by Mark Fearing is the book that they have been picking out of my huge stack of picture books all week. We read it at least three times straight through the first time I brought it home and [...]