Well, I think that it’s pretty safe to say that anything Melanie Watt writes is pretty much perfection and gold. Scaredy Squirrel at Night is no exception. I love this picture book! Melanie Watt is incredibly clever and her books are so much fun to read.
Scaredy Squirrel never sleeps, he’d much rather stay awake for [...]
Some authors simply do not have the talent to read their own books aloud. This is not the case for Richard Russo. Having attended a reading and signing of The Kings English Bookshop in the fall, I could not get his voice out of my head while reading his latest novel, That Old Cape Magic. [...]
The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart is a lovely book. Georgia has been best friends with Riley for forever. They had been the queens of finger paints and mud pancakes. Now teens and ten years into their friendship, at a time when they are both redefining themselves, both travel together from their [...]
I was a HUGE fan of The Only True Genius in the Family and so had huge expectations for Jennie Nash’s new novel The Threadbare Heart. Oh my goodness. This woman has incredible talent. I LOVED this book. The Threadbare Heart is a story of family: of mothers, daughters, sons, wives, and husbands. It [...]
In The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon, thirteen-year-old Sam is the son of civil rights activist Roland Childs (who is a fictional character just to be clear), who is close to Martin Luther King Jr. Sam has grown up his whole life participating in demonstrations and stuffing more envelopes than he cares to [...]
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