When You Reach Me won the Newbery Medal in 2010, and it kind of let me wondering if 2009 was just a bad year for published children’s novels. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine novel but I don’t think it holds up the way other Newbery winners have in the past. It is very strong on the nostalgia factor though, which makes me wonder if that is one of the reasons it won. Nostalgia for the Medal awarders obviously, not the children who read […]
Misunderstood Shark…. Or is he??
Amy Dyckman is at it again. She just cannot help herself! Her books are as fun and quirky as her green hair. (And as I might have mentioned in my review of Read the Book, Lemmings she is a very nice person, too). The story of Misunderstood Shark is a shark just wants to show “the people out there” what kind of shark he really is. After all, everyone always seems to misunderstand him. He does not want to eat the fish, but to show […]
A Mostly Average Riordan Novel
After the last of the Norse mythology books, I honestly thought Riordan was losing his touch. I don’t know that much about Norse mythology so I had been excited to use the series to learn more, but in the end, the series, and especially the last book, felt very rushed to me. However, I was already two books into The Trials of Apollo series, and since I am nothing if not a completionist, I didn’t let that disappointment deter me from reading this one. Overall, I actually […]
The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael Lopez combine their talents in The Day You Begin. The story is how a classroom of children feel like outsiders in their classroom. Told through poetic text, Woodson shows how these two children learn they are not alone. We have all probably felt like Rigoberto and Angelina at least once in our lives. Due to our names, accent, being the new kid at school, at church or another event. Perhaps we are not good at a particular sport or subject or […]
A Storytelling of Ravens
A Storytelling of Ravens seems like one thing by the cover, but here the old saying is true, “Do not judge a book by the cover.” The inside poem (for a lack of a better term) has a line about each animal and what their “group” is called in a clever sentence. There is a sloth of bears, a smack of jellyfish and (a term a dog lover perhaps would take glee in) a nuisance of cats. And for me, of course, a storytelling of […]
A Narwhal and Jelly Book
The Narwhal and Jelly graphic novel series is a “My first graphic novel” read. There is very basic text, almost repetitive and with a rhythm that beginning readers tend to have. Aimed at the first to second grader (ages 6 to 8) you can read them out loud as well. The very basic illustrations do not add a lot of details, but the right amount to not overpower the text, but to compliment it. Narwhal is a bit on the “not the brightest fish in […]
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