Ollie’s Halloween by Oliver Dunrea

Ollie’s Halloween by Oliver Dunrea is just about the cutest Halloween picture book that I have read. Oliver Dunrea’s popular characters Gossie, Gertie, Peedie, BooBoo and Ollie all make an appearance in what can only be called an adorable tale.
Gossie is a wizard. Gertie is a chicken. Peedie is a dragon. BooBoo is a bunny.  [...]

The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijitten

Be sure to add The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijo to your picture book Halloween reading this month.
Trick-or-treating has always been fun and safe especially when the town can count on the mysterious masked boy to wrangle up all the Halloween hoodlums.  In fact, he’s done such a good job keeping Halloween safe that for [...]

The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck

Despite the fact that I have at least 20 books that will be overlapped into 2010 reviews, it just doesn’t make sense to review a Christmas book in January, so I wanted to squeeze one last 2009 review in.  I read The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck for my book club.  I liked it, I [...]

Who Was Born this Special Day? by Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Leonid Gore

Who Was Born This Special Day? by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Leonid Gore is a beautiful, soft nativity story.  Each manger animal is each asked in turn if they were born on this special night.  Was it you little lamb?  Was it you little goat? Was it you little calf?  Was it you little [...]

I’ve Seen Santa! by David Bedford, Illustrated by Tim Warnes

What a delightful book!  My only qualm about  I’ve Seen Santa! by David Bedford and illustrated by Tim Warnes is that one of the spreads was torn out in the library book that I borrowed  thus missing out on another great illustration.  This is one I would totally add to our home library.
Cute little Little [...]