Type: very short chapter bookAges: 5-8Author: Susan E. GoodmanIllustrator: Doris Ettlinger Along the lines of Little House on the Prairie, this book is a short but sweet view into how life was back then. Cora was born in 1887. The…
Type: longer picture bookAges: 4-10Author/Illustrator: Robert McCloskey I’ve never seen anything religious in McCloskey’s. books before, but there were a couple elements in this one: a mention of one pair of eyes “watching over all” and the family singing a…
Type: picture bookAges: 4-8Author/Illustrator: Trina Schart Hyman It is always a little strange to read this story and realize how violent it actually is. 🙈 Grandmother and Little Red have quite the experience being eaten up like that! But, as…
Type: picture bookAges: 4-8Author: Rebecca HickoxIllustrator: Will Hillenbrand *It was a magic fish that said to Cinderella, “Allah says a kindness never goes unrewarded.” This is the only place he is mentioned. This rendition of the famous princess story is…
Type: picture bookAges: 5-8Author: William Steig *It was, of course, heartbreakingly sad for the parents to lose their son, but what’s sadder is that they had no other hope to which to cling. Even in the most tragic of circumstances,…
Type: picture bookAges: 4-9Author: Ruth Brown I don’t often think a picture book is “too short,” but that’s the main reaction I had with this one. Before you really got into the climax of the story, it was all over.…
Type: picture bookAges: 3-7Author: William Steig Who would have thought a mouse and whale could form a friendship? 🙂
Type: picture bookAges: 3-7Author: Pamela LoveIllustrator: Linda Warner If you don’t know by now, I love lighthouse books! Each one of them portrays a different aspect of how lives looked back when lighthouses were run manually. This one reminds us…
Type: biographical picture bookAges: 4-9Author: Emily Arnold McCully To be honest, I was waiting for the blast of feminism from this book…but it didn’t come! It simply stated the facts of how women weren’t really part of the working world…
Type: picture bookAges: 5-8Author: Jan KaronIllustrator: Toni Goffe I’m torn between thinking this book is simply cute…or infused with too much narcissism. There is a whole lot of focus on how she primps and looks when she goes to church…
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