When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is the perfect realistic fiction book with a fantasy twist. It’s a mystery too. As well as a coming of age, friendship book. In fact, When You Reach Me dabbles a little in many genres. In a short 197 pages, this book packs a punch! From what I’ve [...]
I am SO buying Where’s My Mummy by Carolyn Crimi and illustrated by John Manders. I’m going to be really sad to see it returned to the library because my boys and I have been reading this one every day for two weeks. My little two-year-old has some of the lines memorized and he’s so [...]
My boys LOVED A Very Hairy Scary Story by Rick Walton and illustrated by David Clark. As soon as we finished reading it they wanted to read it again. Over and over. I think we read it at least four times in a row the first time.
Ann has stayed at her friends house too long [...]
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is an iconic book. It’s one of those books that has had so much influence that where do I even begin discussing it? The thought is overwhelming. I don’t even dare attempt it. This won’t be a formal review of any sorts but rather my random thoughts [...]
Zlata’s Diary, A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic has often been compared to the Diary of Anne Frank and it’s a comparison that’s not lost on Zlata herself as she often noted in her diary that she hoped that her ending would be different from that of Anne’s. Fortunately, her ending was different. [...]
