Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld

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 [...]

The Book That Eats People by John Perry, Illustrated by Mark Fearing

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 [...]

Always My Brother by Jean Reagan and Illustrated by Phyllis Pollema-Cahill (with a giveaway)

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 [...]

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown had me in love as soon as I laid my eyes on it.   See, my other love is gardening.  If I wasn’t blogging about books than I probably would be blogging about gardening.  I’m not a pro by any means but I love gardening so much that I [...]

The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faria

What is it like to experience colors if you are blind?  This is the question that The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faria asks and attempts to answer.  This book of colors is lacking in the color department and that’s a good thing.  Instead, it is completely black with white text [...]