This is a cute book about a young boy who is tired of his little sister and wants her to go away. Sounds like in my house with K and his sister A. The mother goes along with okay she can go, but she made him tell her about the good things of having his sister there. That is what I thought was a good...
Originally posted at Nose in a BookTo say I have a soft spot for childrens books is an understatement. I adore them. I was a voracious reader as a child and that has not changed now. Fine, grad school gets in the way now, but I still try to read as much as possible. (Has nothing to do with my fear o...
I think the title and cover of this book are slightly misleading, since it would appear a bunch of kids gets lost on a mountain, which isn't really what the book is about. It starts out with quite a bit of excitement, but then the pace slows for a huge part of the book while the kids do research and...
If Nancy Drew was written by an Elizabethan historian this is what would happen. A charming and entertaining one-off.
Since I've loved Broach's other works, I thought I'd been a fan of this one too. But I wasn't. It's fine, it just wasn't great. With the story centered on the middle of three brothers, there's a lot of gender assumptions being made. Even though Henry accepts Delilah on their adventures, he still see...
Backstory: When I was in 5th grade, about to become a middle-schooler, I realized how many books in the school library I had not read, I embarked on a reading binge, reading as many books as I could before the last day of school. This is one of those books (I can't remember all the other books I rea...
A story of friendship between a boy and a beetle. My favorite lines in the story: "A great friendship is like a great work of art. It takes time and attention and a spark of something that is impossible to describe. It is a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stra...
I know nothing of Duerer except the name, but I'll have to google some images. I'm enchanted by the little bug, harking me back to archie.
The Possum and I both liked Shakespeare's Secret, so I'm hoping this picture book will be a hit with the PandaBat. So far, so good: she approved the cover.***Very funny. A child and a mother out doing errands, and instead of lollipops or stickers for the child, everyone is giving away dinos. Buy a d...
I picked this up because of Brett Helquist's illustrations, but it ended up being a pretty okay story as well. Any book that gets kids interested in Shakespeare is okay by me. With that said, I don't appreciate that while it's getting kids interested in Shakespeare, it does so by bringing them into ...
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