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Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 9
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Author: Alice Dalgliesh
Genre: Fiction
Explorer: The Mystery Boxes
Editor: Kazu Kibuishi
Genre: Graphic Novel
The Giggler Treatment
Author: Roddy Doyle
Genre: Fiction
Lunch Lady and the Mutant Mathletes
Author: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Genre: Graphic Novel
Johnny Boo, age 6
My Weird
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 8
Magic Tree House #29: Christmas in Camelot
Author/illustrator: Mary Pope Osborne/Sal Murdocca
Publisher: Random House (October 2001)
Source: Public library
In this Magic Tree House fantasy adventure, Jack and Annie go on a quest to save Camelot from being forgotten forever. They must solve the rhymes of the Christmas knight; rescue
Both boys are still obsessed with Maurice Sendak's Nutshell Library books (see our review), and with the Carole King album that goes with them. Here are our other favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 8, and Johnny Boo, age 5
Chicken Butt!; Chicken Butt's Back!
Author/illustrator: Erica S. Perl/Henry Cole
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers (April 2009; April 2011)
Source: Public
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 8
I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
Editors/illustrator: Iona & Peter Opie/Maurice Sendak
Publisher: Candlewick Press (October 1992); first in 1947 by Williams and Northgate as I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth
Source: Public library
I Saw Esau is a collection of 174 rhymes chanted by generations of children. As Iona Opie
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 8
Chocolate Fever
Author/illustrator: Robert Kimmel Smith/Gioia Fiammenghi
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (1972)
Source: Public library
Henry Green eats a lot of chocolate, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When he notices brown spots spreading all over his body one day in school, he, his teacher, and the school nurse are baffled, until
This week we decided to record book commercials to get the boys more excited about sharing their opinions (they love looking at themselves). Here are our favorite books from the past week, with excerpts from our commercials:
Tintin, age 8
Geronimo Stilton: The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid
Author/illustrator: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic (February 2004)
Source: Half Price Books
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 8
Twisted Journeys 4: The Treasure of Mount Fate
Author/illustrator: Jeff Limke/Clint Hilinski
Publisher: Graphic Universe (August 2007)
Source: Public library
The Treasure of Mount Fate is a choose-your-own-adventure graphic novel. You, the reader, are a hero in training who seeks the treasure rumored to be hidden inside Mount Fate. While
Here are Johnny Boo's favorites from the past week (we'll write about another favorite, Bink and Gollie, for our Word of the Week feature in a couple of days):
Balloon Toons: Adopt a Glurb
Author/illustrator: Elise Gravel
Publisher: Blue Apple Books (August 2010)
Source: Public library
After reading Balloon Toons: Rick & Rack and the Great Outdoors (see our review), we were eager to read Adopt
Here are Tintin's favorites from the past week:
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters
Author/illustrator:Lenore Look/LeUyen Pham
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade (June 2009)
Source: Elementary school library
In Alvin Ho's second book (see our review of the first one), Alvin's dad is convinced Alvin will come to like camping and hiking. But Alvin is scared of almost
Here are Johnny Boo's favorites from the past week:
Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye 1: Hamster and Cheese
Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye 2: And Then There Were Gnomes
Author/illustrator: Colleen AF Venable/Stephanie Yue
Publisher: Graphic Universe (April 2010)
Source: Public library
Sasspants is a bookish guinea pig who lives in a pet shop, but when she loses a "G" from her tank, one of the
Here are Johnny Boo's favorites from the past week:
Chalk
Author/illustrator: Bill Thomson
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books (March 2010)
Source: Public library
Chalk is a wordless picture book about three children (Johnny Boo named them Annie, Jamie and Ben) who on a rainy day find a bag of seemingly harmless chalk at the playground. The children watch as their drawings
Here are Tintin's favorites from the past week:
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
Author/illustrator: Lenore Look/LeUyen Pham
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade (July 2008)
Source: Public library
Alvin Ho is a second grader who's so allergic to school that he can't talk when he's there. He's fine when he's around school kids before and after school and he can't stop talking
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 7
Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes
Author/illustrator: Richard Thake/Vince Chui
Publisher: Owlkids Books (September 2010)
Source: ARC from giveaway at Journey of a Bookseller
Sir Seth and Sir Ollie are really just plain old Seth and Ollie, 10-year-old kids with big imaginations. With tinfoil armor, a broom for a sword,
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 7
Babymouse #13: Cupcake Tycoon
Author/illustrator: Jennifer L. Holm/Matthew Holm
The latest installment in the Babymouse series, Cupcake Tycoon is, according to Tintin, the best one yet. Babymouse accidentally destroys the school library and participates in a cupcake fundraiser to help replace the damaged books. Unfortunately for
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 7
Magic Trixie; Magic Trixie Sleeps Over
Author/illustrator: Jill Thompson
Magic Trixie and Magic Trixie Sleeps Over are the first two books in the Magic Trixie series (the third is Magic Trixie and the Dragon). In Magic Trixie, the title character becomes jealous of her baby sister, who gets to do things her big sister isn't allowed to do
Here are our favorites from the past week:
Tintin, age 7
Wayside School Is Falling Down
Author: Louis Sachar
Wayside School Is Falling Down is the sequel to Sideways Stories From Wayside School, which Tintin read not too long ago. It's just as funny and weird as the first book, with each chapter focusing on a different student from the 30th floor of the school (which has one classroom on each
Here are our favorites from the past week (just one for Tintin – he spent most of his reading time finishing up Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone):
Tintin, age 7
Kaput & Zösky
Author/illustrator: Lewis Trondheim, with Eric Cartier
Kaput and Zösky, from First Second, the publisher of some of Tintin's other favorite graphic novels (Little Vampire and Sardine – see our review), contains
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Nice picks. I liked Courge of Sarah Noble a lot... like a beginning chapter book version of Caddie Woodlawn.<br /><br />Lunch Lady series looks funny and my kids liked Miss Daisy is Crazy series too.