I loved Leslie Connor’s novel, All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook. That novel by far has been my favorite read of this entire school year. As soon as I saw Leslie Connor had another novel, I had to buy it, and I couldn’t wait to start reading it. I have been dyin...

Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups wins the award for my favorite children’s picture book of the 2017-2018 school year. I just loved it! Every page of this book is just packed full of magic that kids today will adore. I should know, because I have shared this book with lo...

Have you ever loved learning about something that people said you can't do well?  In the book, Shark Lady, this is exactly what happens to young Eugenie. This caught my attention because on one page Eugenie’s science teacher said nobody is brave or smart to learn about...

Too much. There was just too much going on in this story. I tried so hard to like it, I really did. But, I could not get around all the different mini plot directions that Kheryn Callender had going on in her story, Hurricane Child. The frame of the story had great pot...

In the text, Black Belt Bunny, it isn't  Black Belt Bunny who is talking, it is the narrator. This caught my attention because most stories have the character talking. Black Belt Bunny doesn't talk once. The thought I have about this book is the theme is shown in diffe...

In the text, The Sandwich Swap, the character Lily is judgemental. She judged Salma’s sandwich just by how it looked. Like on page 22, out of nowhere she said to Salma that her sandwich looked yucky. As I say this, I’m realizing that Lily started the whole fight becaus...

American Girl is at it again. Since the beginning of American Girl, this company has strived to connect literature and reading to the inner-workings of everything they do, and they have been wildly successful doing so! The success continues with American Girl’s new ser...

How would you feel if you just moved to a new town? Peanut Butter just moved to a new town and is trying to make friends. This is sort of what happened in the book, Milk Goes to School. Milk just moved to a new school and is trying to make new friends. I loved Peanut B...

A simple American girl falls in love with a dashing young man during her stay with her uncle in the small town of Cornwall, England. She is there trying to find any way possible to cope with the grief of losing her mother to a horrible car accident. The girl feels ther...

I love, love books by Terry Border. The illustrations in these “food” theme books are just adorable. I love how the characters are all different types of food, and they interact just like typical children would. Every one of Terry Border’s food theme books is absolutel...