It is not “ha-ha funny” but “odd funny” how our mood and relationship with a subject bias how we feel about a book. I was reading two Father’s Day books and was thinking, “This is ICK!” (They are Pet Dad by Elanna Allen and Shopping with Dad by Matt Harvey and Miriam Latimer). After finishing, I took a step back and started to rethink my opinion: Okay, I can see why someone could like them. Yet, they are not my kind of like. My mood […]
Fish Girl
First you wonder: Is she real? Then you realize she is. But do the people who come and see the “fish girl” in the show on the boardwalk believe it? Second, you wonder will she be able to escape? And finally, you realize Donna Jo Napoli and David Wiesner are both geniuses. Napoli and Wiesner have created a coming-of-age tale with a tail. She is a real mermaid. The man who claims to be her father, has her in his ocean show and will do […]
The Horse’s Haiku
From the field to the stable and from riding to rest, Michael Rosen captures what it is to be a horse in the haiku poetry of The Horse’s haiku. There are three sections each marked by a heading or title to the following haikus. Each one talks about horses, what it does and the surrounding things and places. The way the poems are formatted makes the story flow. This prose poetry after a while stops being “poems” and becomes just another horse tale. Stan Fellows […]
Mommy’s Khimar is Lovely
A young American-Muslim girl tells about her mother’s colorful khimars (or headscarf). She plays dress up in them (she is a princess, a mamma bird) and her mother shows her how to properly wear it as well. The girl talks about all the things she does. Just like any other child. She talks about a grandmother who does not go to the mosque, but is loved and is a member of her family. And she talks about her extended family in the mosque. She talks […]
Dog Man and Cat Kid To the Rescue?
In the fourth adventure of Dog Man (a police officer who is a dog) we see Dog Man and his new sidekick, Cat Kid, fighting evil and trying to find a missing actress. While this book is partly a standalone title, it does help to have read the other books in the series. Therefore, while the adult should pick up enough to be okay with the lack of backstory, your child will probably need to have read all the others first. The other point is […]
“I want to be the hero in my story.”
Last year, when I started my new job, one of the first books I was given to read was Kwame Alexander’s Booked. I read and devoured it in a day. And then tracked down The Crossover, and loved that one, as well. Rebound is a prequel to The Crossover — it tells the story of Chuck Bell, the father of Jordan and Josh Bell, the twin basketball stars who tell their story in prose in The Crossover. Chuck’s claim to fame was that he played […]
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