Mac Barnett
Mac Barnett is the New York Times-bestselling author of over 20 books for children, including Extra Yarn and Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, both illustrated by Jon Klassen, and both winners of a Caldecott Honor and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. He also writes the Brixton Brothers series of mysteries,...
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Mac Barnett is the New York Times-bestselling author of over 20 books for children, including Extra Yarn and Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, both illustrated by Jon Klassen, and both winners of a Caldecott Honor and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. He also writes the Brixton Brothers series of mysteries, and, with Jory John, The Terrible Two novels.
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I fell in love with this book after the first few pages. The sweet, calm fashion of this book had soon expanded and now, I was feeling the same way. The situation was all too familiar for me and if only I could turn back time, it could have been me in that room, answering those questions. Everythi...
Set amidst a dystopian hellscape of repetition and conformity, Barnett and Klassen's story evokes a quiet terror in the unwary reader. Look into Triangle's mad, staring, eyes and see the sort of dread that comes to us all after thirty-six hours of bad coffee and no sleep. The prose has been sucked...
I don’t remember where I saw the recommendation for this book, but thank you, unknown book reviewer, for introducing me to this stinkin’ adorable, yet subversive, little children’s book. The book is presented as a sickly sweet kiddie book about a birthday bunny who wanders sadly around the forest,...
We are longstanding Adam Rex fans, and I’ve enjoyed his previous work with Barnett, so yeah, I grabbed this off the library shelf. I’m not following a lot of children’s book bloggers any more, so I’m not walking into the library with a list of items, I’m just taking whatever looks appealing on displ...
When I was a kid, I was what everybody called a “reluctant reader.” Basically, if you put a book in my hands, I’d do everything in my childish power not to read it. Jon Scieszka’s picture books are some of the first books I remember reading on my own and actually liking. His strange sense of humor w...
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