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 [...]
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 [...]
I really want to share A Penguin Story by Antoinette Portis with you. It’s so fun. Great story, great design, great color. It was so much fun to read. But how can I even begin to review it when Betsy at Fuse #8 has already written a review which would put my feeble attempt to [...]
Always My Brother by Jean Reagan and illustrated by Phyllis Pollema-Cahill is a very touching book and fills a need for books written for grieving children. In this lovingly written story, Becky and her brother John do everything together. Like running barefoot in the snow, playing soccer, and making her laugh with his knock-knock jokes [...]
