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 [...]
I haven’t reviewed a book like Frogs by Nic Bishop on my blog before and didn’t think I would when I checked it out from the library. But after reading it, I was really excited to share it with you. Frogs is geared for about first to third graders, but even my three year old [...]
I can now officially say that I have now read a Neil Gaiman book. And for the record I had The Graveyard Book checked out from the library before it won this years Newbery Medal. I would have read it one way or another.
If you don’t know the premise by now, The Graveyard Book opens [...]
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February 13th, 2009
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I read The Lightning Thief, Book One of Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan as part of my reading for my Children’s Literature Book Club this past month. This young adult book is normally not the type of book that I would pick up on my own, but I found it to be [...]