Backyard Fairies is more of a 4.5 rating as I would have liked “something else” (though I am not sure exactly what that would be. Perhaps I would have liked it to be a tad bit longer. I do enjoy the illustrations as they are unique. They have a realistic quality but in a slight unrealistic way. The contradiction of this does make them slightly magical. Phoebe Wahl has been the girl in this story. I would also go as far to say, that she […]
One Summer Evening
Summer Evening by Walter de la Mare has a “grab you cover.” While it needed more text these illustrations are gorgeous, but the lack of text does take away from things. Even if it just had text more sprinkled in then it has, would have made this book perfect. A family is out and about having an evening picnic. And when the children notice the cat chasing a mouse, they follow it pass the dog and the other animals of the farm. Mostly a wordless […]
Run Wild with this book!
Another book for the “there is really nothing wrong with this book but it just did not speak to me” list is Run Wild by David Covell. It is a book that is for families that like the outdoors or for young children that should have a slightly shorter book to listen to. It is poetic and has unique illustrations that are not active, but are not “sit still and be quiet illustrations.” The text also lends itself to being a “first read alone” or […]
Teddy’s Favorite Toy might be a Surprise
Teddy’s Favorite Toy by Christian Trimmer has one of my favorite things about a book: It did not get preachy over the fact that Teddy’s favorite toy is a doll (which is a cross between the Rugrat doll and Barbie). Nobody teases him. Nobody mentioned he is a boy. The story is: Teddy’s favorite toy is tossed out and how a real superhero finds it. Teddy has toys that are more traditionally considered “boy” toys and he has this traditionally considered “girl” toy. He has […]
Big Nate and friends
While this book is not in a novel format, there are books in the Big Nate series. These comics in Big Nate: What’s a Noogie Between Friends by Lincoln Peirce were in newspapers from mid-October 2012 to mid-April 2013. The comics are about an over confident middle-schooler who does not always understand why the world does not go as planned. A number of modern images are shown (a single dad, multi-cultural students) there are the themes that are timeless: girl troubles, best friends and school. […]
Not your parent’s sheep meets wolf story
Baabwaa and Wooliam: A Tale of Literacy, Dental Hygiene, and Friendship written by David Elliott and illustrated by Melissa Sweet is not your parent’s sheep meets wolf story. Baabwaa loves to knit (a very practical hobby for a sheep) and Wooliam is a sheep who likes to read (which is not very common in the sheep world). They are content to do this day in and day out. Until one day they decide they need to go on an adventure. They go out, turn left […]
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