First of all, Locomotive by Brian Floca has absolutely beautiful illustrations. [A/N: It was a Caldecott Medal Winner and a Sibert Honor Book so you know I'm not just whistling Dixie.] This could be a potentially dry subject (a 19th century family's cross country journey to a new home) but the illus...
I love reading books by Avi. I've adored a lot of his works; my favorite being Nothing But the Truth. All of his books are vastly different, but no less enjoyable. His writing style is very easy to get into and it makes the reading experience feel like it's gone by so quickly when, in reality, you'v...
Locomotive tells the story of the building of the first transcontinental rail line in the 1860s, and of the steam engines that traveled the line, as told from the point of view of a family journeying from Omaha to Sacramento. My brother and sister-in-law gave this to my boys, and my almost-four-year...
I'm finally getting around to reviewing this because Neil Armstrong passed away this week. I'd made a stab at this a while back, but for some reason my ipad freaks and looses anything in a text box if I leave it too long or something. Thanks, technology.I consider myself a medium crier. I won't cry ...
Eh, I was very bored. It seemed to border the line between a Toad and Frog type of story, but lacking the charm and whimsy, and something like Redwall, but without the colour, adventure, epic scope or characterization inherent in Jacques's Redwall series, although all have to deal with talking anima...
Well, this was an interesting book. I checked it out mainly for my nephew, but once I read the text I thought my niece might enjoy it too. The kids listened to the story, but there wasn't really a whole lot of excitement coming from either one of them.I think that my nephew would have enjoyed the ...
Very disappointing. I like Avi a lot and wanted to see what he'd do with a graphic novel. The answer is, not much (not entirely his fault--the art was not good at all). A lot of it was typeset, not hand lettered, which left me unable to read the comic booky language (the POWER, the ceremony of th...
Props for just tackling the subject. Writing about music and dance is hard, but writing well is rare. But the text and art here work together to show the collaborative process involved in making a new dance. Brilliant.Library copy
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