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Blog: Children's Book Reviews and Then Some (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Ursula Vernon is the author of the excellent, comic hybrid Dragonbreath series (Book 11 comes out January, 2016!) and the superb stand alone novel, Castle Hangnail. Vernon is a triple threat when it comes to kid's books. She is a great illustrator who makes creepy cute on every page. She is an imaginative author, always adding to the fantasy genre. And, best of all, she is a very funny
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Riff Raff the Pirate Mouse and Riff Raff Sails the High Cheese are the first two books in a new early reader series by Susan Schade who, along with her husband Jon Buller, created one of my all-time favorite trilogies, The Fog Mound, which is a brilliant blend of traditional and graphic novel. For this new series, Anne Kennedy illustrates with a colorful, cartoonish charm. In Riff Raff
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<!-- START INTERCHANGE - PENNY AND HER MARBLE -->if(!window.igic__){window.igic__={};var d=document;var s=d.createElement("script");s.src="http://iangilman.com/interchange/js/widget.js";d.body.appendChild(s);} I reviewed Penny and Her Song, Kevin Henkes's first foray into beginning readers, a year ago. Henkes's pictures books have been special to me because his career was really taking
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If you have read Yummy! Eight Favorite Fairy Tales by Lucy Cousins, a favorite of mine and many story time attendees, or, for that matter, any of her Maisy books, then you know that Cousins knows her audience (four and under) very well. I know that there are many, many crafty moms and dads out there creating things with their kids as soon as they can grasp a glue stick, nevertheless, I still
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Penny and Her Song is now in paperback!! I am so excited that, with Penny and Her Song, Kevin Henkes has written his first book for emerging readers. This man is so talented, across the board, and this seemed to be the one genre he hadn't tackled. Besides being a wonderful illustrator, he writes picture books with a range of complexity as well as chapter books for a range of readers. As
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You might know Axel Scheffler as the frequent illustrator of the wonderful British picture book author < a href="http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/"target="_blank">Julia Donaldson, best known in the US for her books The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child and one of the best Halloween books out there that can be read any time of the year, Room on the Broom. Donaldson is a great story teller and an
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Benny and Penny in LIGHTS OUT! is Geoffrey Hayes's fourth Benny and Penny titles and his fifth TOON Book. And I still love these little mice as much as I did when I read and reviewed their first book back in 2010. As many parents know, including François Mouly, who founded TOON Books as a response to the dearth of good primers, it is very hard to write an engaging beginning readers title.
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The Fog Mound trilogy by Susan Schade and Jon Buller, bills itself as part graphic novel part heroic fantasy, and an adventure like no other! And it is all true! I LOVE this book! A week of reading books with squirrels as main characters - realistic squirrels, cartoonish squirrels, villainous quasi-medieval squirrels - has lead me here to Travels of Thelonious (published in
Interesting review!
Sound like something Audrey would love. I requested all 3 from the library. Thanks for the link to the SDCL website, by the way! Saves me a lot of trouble when I want to reserve a book you recommend.
Hope she does! Be sure to check out some of Henkes's other books - especially his "mice stories" with Lily and Chester and Owen. I think Aaron would even enjoy them. Glad the link is working for you!
Thanks for the additional suggestions! I will check them out.
What about 'The Birthday Room' or 'Sun & Spoon'?
Henkes is very diverse and writes novels as well as illustrating and writing picture books. THE BIRTHDAY ROOM, SUN & SPOON, PROTECTING MARIE and OLIVE'S OCEAN are his novels and they are center around kids dealing with family and social issues. Probably not the best bedtime read-out-loud material.
Thanks! I couldn't tell they were longer novels just from the cover on the library website.