Type: longer picture bookAges: 6-10Author: Mary StolzIllustrator: Garth Williams This book is just pure, clean fun. Emmett’s bedroom is covered with pigs, his favorite animal, but when will he get to meet, hold and play with a real one? Enjoy!
Type: biographical picture bookAges: 4-8Author: Tricia BrownIllustrator: Cary Porter You may have heard this story before (I know I have, but I don’t remember from where!). All by himself, Bobbie makes his way from Indiana to western Oregon over the…
Type: picture bookAges: 3-7Author: Syd Hoff Your littles will likely make some giggles with this one. Oliver is a funny elephant sure to charm them. 🙂
Type: picture bookAges: 4-8Author: Christopher Denise This book brings big smiles the first time you read it! The smart wordplay combined with the fantastic illustrations makes this a winner. We loved it.
Type: chapter bookAges: 7-12Author: Jennie D. Lindquist Fair warning: this book positively oozes sweetness. Everyone is so perfectly nice and thoughtful, it doesn’t always seem very realistic–ha! But it truly is a nice change in pace if your daughter is…
Type: chapter bookAges: 7-12Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett *She threatened a whipping and boxed someone’s ears, but her worst behavior is the emotional abuse toward certain girls. In black and white, that sounds worse than it came off while reading. Both…
Type: chapter bookAges: 6-10Author: Astrid LindgrenIllustrator: Ilon Wikland *There was only one sentence here, so it’s very minor to the story; however, it gave enough of an out-of-place feeling that I wonder what the original German said. **I have to…
Type: picture bookAges: 4-7Author: Tomie dePaola As I understand it, this is an autobiographical story of dePaola’s childhood, so my criticism is not toward him as much as it is toward the government schooling system. Interestingly, after I read it…
Type: picture bookAges: 6-10Author: Wafa’ TarnowskaIllustrator: Vali Mintzi What a beautiful book! In the midst of somber events, much hope was brought to a little community with mere books. A sweet quote: “The world of books is wonderful,” Nour thought,…
Type: chapter bookAges: 5-8Authors: Florence and Richard Atwater This read aloud very nicely! I hadn’t read it since I was a child and couldn’t remember the details at all. My children (7 and 9) were entertained. It was non-suspenseful and…
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