Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle by Miranda Paul My rating: 5 of 5 stars Publisher: Roaring Book Press nonfiction, picture book, storytime “Drip. Sip. Pour me a cup. Water is water unless… it heats up.” I LOVE THIS BOOK! With beautifully simple rhyme, Paul takes readers through all of the different… Continue reading #PictureBook Review: Water Is Water by Miranda Paul
Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-loving Rubber Ball by Emily Jenkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books picture book, winter, mock-caldecott 2016 Summary Lumphy, the stuffed buffalo, StingRay, the plush stingray, and Plastic, the rubber ball, are… Continue reading #PictureBook Review: Toys Meet Snow by Emily Jenkins
The Little Shop of Monsters by R.L. Stine My rating: 4 of 5 stars Publisher: Little, Brown and Company picture book Summary If you are brave enough, head to the Little Shop of Monsters. It is the best place to get your monsters. They have stinky, smelly monsters, sticky and icky monsters, squeezer and teaser… Continue reading #PictureBook Review: The Little Shop of Monsters by R.L. Stine
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick My rating: 3 of 5 stars Publisher: Little, Brown and Company picture book Summary A mother tells her son Cole the story of Canadian veterinarian Harry Colebourn who got called to serve in World War I. He purchased a bear cub… Continue reading #PictureBook Review: Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds My rating: 3 of 5 stars publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers YA, realistic fiction Ali is a good kid living on a rough block. He stays out of the bad stuff, helping his mom who works 2 jobs with his younger sister and being trained to… Continue reading Book Review: When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots by Debbie Dadey My rating: 3 of 5 stars publisher: Scholastic middle grade fantasy A class of third grade students at Bailey Elementary School are getting a new teacher after they ran off Mrs. Deedee. They get Mrs. Jeepers, an woman from Romania that wears a strange green brooch that… Continue reading Book Review: Vampies Don’t Wear Polka Dots by Debbie Dadey
Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne My rating: 4 of 5 stars publisher: Random House middle grade fantasy Obviously aware of the Magic Tree House series, I hadn’t actually read any of them until now. I am visiting several popular middle grade series that came after the time I would have read them as… Continue reading Book Review: Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne
Pool by JiHyeon Lee My rating: 3 of 5 stars publisher: Chronicle Books wordless picturebook A boy walks up to a completely empty pool, full of possibility. Along comes a crowd filling up the pool. He slips into the little room that is left pool, dives down, and swims below all of the people floating… Continue reading #PictureBook Review: Pool by JiHyeon Lee
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems My rating: 5 of 5 stars publisher: Hyperion Books for Children picture book, storytime Mr. Willems, I pretty much adore you and everything you create. I am such a huge fangirl! Time and again Willems presents issues that everyone deals with, shows growth, provides a solution, and teaches… Continue reading #PictureBook Review: Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
Daniel Beaty just retweeted my review for his picture book Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me! This is the second time an author has linked to my blog. Squee!!!!! I mean, I guess this kind of thing happens a lot for people who have been book blogging longer than I have, but… does it ever get… Continue reading Does this ever get old?
