Book Review: Crescent Dragonwagon’s All the Awake Animals are Almost Asleep
A lyrical animal ABC book, a mother tries to tuck her child in for the night by telling him about all the awake animals that are getting sleepy.
Category: Children’s
Book Review: Al Yankovic’s When I Grow Up
A glorious exploration of careers with the positive affirmation of endless choices for all of your life.
Book Review: Jane Yolen’s Waking Dragons
Having fun with those morning activities of getting out of bed and getting ready for the day.
Book Review: Karina Wolf’s The Insomniacs
A family discovering a whole world still awake in the dark and discovering the beauty in their new and unconventional schedule.
Book Review: Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
A graduation speech of the ups and downs that await each person.
Book Review: Dr. Seuss’ I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
The hero of this hilarious tale discovers that in attempting to avoid trouble one often encounters even greater difficulties.
Book Review: Dr. Seuss’ I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories
Three short stories in true Seussian tradition that explore bravado, pride, and thinking too much.
Book Review: Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s First the __
A concept picture book that explores how life, art, and stories evolve.
Book Review: Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book
The crazy world of Dr. Seuss as each creature starts yawning, then snoring.
Book Review: Maurice Sendak’s Bumble-Ardy
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Bumble-Ardyby Maurice Sendak fantasy, picture book in Hardcover edition that was published by HarperCollins on April 5, 2013 and has 40 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Where the Wild Things Are, Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, In the Night KitchenOriginally an animated Sesame Street animated short created by Maurice Sendak and Jim Henson, it’s the first all-Sendak story since his last story, Outside Over There in 1981. My Take The introducing pages are cute with the soft pastel graphics Sendak has created. I especially enjoyed the one in which Bumble-Ardy is exploding out of a calendar with that “well” *grin*. I’m also enjoying the rhythm and rhyme of the story. Be warned, there is a rather gruesome explanation of why Bumble-Ardy hasn’t had a birthday party for the previous eight years. Yum! You absolutely MUST read all the signs the characters carry or wear. And it’s definitely, oh, yes, most definitely a great opportunity […]