It is fitting that my 300th book be set in my home state of Vermont. And since Vermont is so awesome, I am reviewing three books! Trust me, no single book can hold all our greatness! And due to the nature of each book, it does take three books to live up to the glory of my state. These three board books are meant as tourist mementos of your trip for your toddler and not an in-depth look at the state. Night-Night Vermont by Katherine […]
Sex Ed for the Elementary School Set
I decided to review this book because I needed something from the banned or challenged list (for #cbr10bingo), and was amazed (or not) to find this one on the list. I only recently read this with my 11 year old son, so thought a review might be helpful to other parents. I am admittedly not an expert on sex ed books for kids. But I decided to buy this book upon some recommendation or other from a trusted source. Ever prepared, I have had the […]
Come along Childe and visit a new world
Edmund and Childe were swapped at birth. Now Edmund, a child of the fae, lives as a changeling in the human world; never fitting in, but very desperately wanting to. Childe is the pampered pet of his fairy parents. He is a curiosity in the court of the World Below. But when Hawthorne, an evil sorceress, takes the throne, it is up to these two along with Edmunds older, human sister and a “walking candle” (a golem) called Wick, to stop her. Prince and the […]
Family, Courage and Magic
I like what the publisher description of The Witch Boy says: From the illustrator of the web comic “Strong Female Protagonist” comes a debut middle-grade graphic novel about family, identity, courage–and magic. It sums up the story well (though you do not need to know “Strong Female Protagonist”). Molly Knox Ostertag has created a contemporary story with a role reversal twist. In this case, instead of the traditional story of a girl doing “boy things” a boy is doing “girl things.” The graphic novel format […]
A Joyful Celebration
Judith. Jude. No-Talk-Girl. Freak. Jubilee. These are just some of the names are heroine is called. It is her beloved Aunt Cora that calls her Jubilee. A joyful celebration. Left with her aunt when she is very young, Jubilee soon stops talking. Yet, her true friends understand her. When it is time for her to go into a regular fifth-grade classroom, instead of her special class, Jubilee has more than new teacher bumps to overcome. One of the biggest, she learns her mother is back […]
People don’t want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.
In my ongoing quest to read all the Newbery Award Winners, I decided to read the most recent addition to the list. Hello, Universe won the Newbery Award in 2018, and boy am I under the impression that 2017 was a bad year for children’s books. It’s not a bad book, per se, it’s just not great in the way I’ve come to expect Newbery winners to be. It was a very fast read, even for a children’s novel, and it contained about a short […]
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