Book Review: Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon 1 2 3
A counting book for children that plays off the creatures and objects found in Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon.
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Book Review: Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon
A beloved classic of quiet poetry and gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book to send little ones off to sleep.
Book Review: Richard Byrne’s This Book Just Ate My Dog!
When Bella’s dog disappears, she calls for help, but they disappear too. It takes your help and more than a tug on the leash to make things right.
Book Review: Ashley Bryan’s all things bright and beautiful
All things bright and beautiful; all creatures great and small; all things wise and wonderful, the incredible Ashley Bryan illustrates them all!
Book Review: Louis Sachar’s Holes
Torture, lack of justice…and growth for Stanley Yelnats at Camp Green Lake. And all the fault of that no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
Book Review: James Howe’s Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow
Pete’s favorite author is coming to visit his school AND stay at his house!! But Chester the cat is suspicious about the beady-eyed crow and that pets are always threatened in the books.
Book Review: Denise Fleming’s underGROUND
What young child doesn’t love playing in the dirt? And who hasn’t wondered what goes on in the lives of all the creatures who live underground?
Book Review: Misty Copeland’s Firebird
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 Firebirdby Misty Copeland picture book in Hardcover edition that was published by G.P. Putnam’s Books for Young Readers on September 14, 2014 and has 40 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Illustrator: Christopher Myers A standalone story that is inspired by Misty Copeland’s own rise as a ballerina. In 2015, Firebird won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award New Writer Honor. In 2014, it was voted an NPR Best Book, an Amazon Best Book for Ages 6–8 as well as Amazon Best Book of the Month [September], and was Essence Magazine’s Best Children’s Book. To be fair, I suspect most of these awards are because it’s written by a black ballerina with a young black heroine. No, I’m not trying to be nasty. I’m simply unimpressed with the supposed “story”. My Take The inside end papers are a collage of textures from yellow to deepest orange. The inside graphics are similar to the cover with its modern blocks a collage of […]
Book Review: Katie Couric’s The Brand New Kid
Ellie McSnelly and Carrie O’Toole were running and laughing — their first day of school was today: Would it be a good year? Would it be a bore?
Book Review: Greg Foley’s I Miss You Mouse
Mouse has something very important to tell Bear, and it’s a journey as Mouse tracks down many of her and Bear’s friends, as she hunts for her own best friend.