I love how The Hermit Crab by Carter Goodrich begins. And its beginning will give you a really good flavor for just how this story will unfold:
The hermit crab in this story didn’t set out to be a hero. And he wasn’t particularly brave. He was, actually, very shy. Whenever all his neighbors would get [...]
I pretty much love everything that Laurie Halse Anderson touches, and so it’s no surprise that her picture book, The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School and illustrated by Ard Hoyt is a hit with me as well.
Zoe Fleefenbacher has one blue eye and one green eye, and bright red hair that went on [...]
My two boys LOVE worms. I have a huge rule in my house which they know well: no worms in the house! We have an insane amount of worms in our backyard (which for this gardener is a good thing) and they love to go out with a shovel in hand to find them. My [...]
The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood and illustrated by Reneta Liwska is a beautiful book. I had to stop myself from typing out instead – a beautiful, quiet book. But The Quiet Book is just that. Quiet. A book meant to be read in hushed whispers and soft voices. The perfect book to read to [...]
Hashbrown Winters and the Mashimoto Madness by Frank L. Cole is the followup to The Adventures of Hashbrown Winters but I found one doesn’t need to read the first to understand the second. This book is wonderfully strange, irreverent, funny, quirky, odd, and perfect for young boys who are reluctant readers. Such a weird, weird, [...]
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