Audience: Grades 3-5 Format: Audiobook/Library Olive lay on her belly under the kitchen table. - first sentence This is a funny book about what would happen if Ben Franklin was somehow transported to today's world. Nolan & Olive find a strange radio on their front porch and as they are playing...
Giant Squid written by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Eric Rohmann is a nonfiction book about (no surprise here) giant squid. This is categorized as a children's picture book but after reading it myself I would say that this would be more appropriate as a middle grade (or advance reader) picture...
I am not sure how much I trust Fleming as a historian; she often seems to soften her assessment of the Romanovs' actions and beliefs, and her descriptions of Lenin seem deliberately snide. Not that she is, strictly, inaccurate in either case, but her writing does seem to have a slant. Still, for me ...
This was a cute collection of creepy stories that was very well-framed. I love the idea of a frame story, and having one that works as its own story as well as a frame story was a nice surprise--I was expecting it to simply be the first of the stories in the book. There is a wide range of timefr...
I admit that if it weren't for 1997 animated film, "Anastasia" (which is NOT Disney), the Romanov family wouldn't even be on my radar. But thanks to a handful of specials that aired on the History channel around the time of the movie's release, the Russian revolution and the fall of the Romanovs is ...
I picked this up because my knowledge of Russian history is far too limited. As I read, I had to wonder why this was not covered more thoroughly at some point in my schooling, especially since history was my minor. Why is it that our kids know next to nothing about any history other than American an...
Wow!! What a great book for middle graders and teens!! These short stories are weaved together with the overall story of narrator. Such wonderful variety, amazingly all written by the same author. Each short story is tole in the first person by a different ghost. I loved every story and found myself...
One night, after midnight, Mike is out driving and he's going too fast. Suddenly, there is a girl in the road. He puts on his brakes just in time and soon finds out she needs a ride home.He takes there, but she quickly disappears and leaves her tennis shoes behind. He takes them up to her house and ...
Rohmann has tried a new palette, and his woodcut-style outlines really work with this content. This book has great rhythm, and poetic usage that makes it a great read-aloud choice. The rhythm reminds me of other great books that forego rhyme, but have a distinct cadence (Owl Babies by Waddell & Bens...
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