Children's Librarian. Reader. Reviewer.
Hi readers, I feel as though I am forever playing catch up with talking about board books! There have been piles of board books I’ve read and shared with my two little ones, and have compiled a list here of some of the more recent read aloud/shared together favourites and standouts. Full title details and authors/illustrators information are below, but […]
Review: Goodnight, Anne (Inspired by Anne of Green Gables) by Kallie George, illus. Geneviève Godbout Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada. Thank you! Publication: September 25, 2018 by Tundra Books Book Description: A beautiful bedtime picture book based on the best-selling Anne of Green Gables, introducing the irrepressible and beloved Anne to younger readers. It’s time for […]
Review: Here to Stay by Sara Farizan Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Thomas Allen & Son. Thank you! Publication: September 18, 2018 by Algonquin Books Book Description: What happens when a kid who’s flown under the radar for most of high school gets pulled off the bench to make the winning basket in a varsity playoff game? If his name is […]
Review: Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: February 12, 2019 by Roaring Brook Press Book Description: A sweet, funny contemporary teen romance for the inner geek in all of us from graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks. Miriam’s family should be rich. After all, her grandfather was the co-creator […]
Welcome to a special post featuring a review and giveaway for the lovely picture book Queenie Quail Can’t Keep Up, a collaboration from the Canadian duo of author Jane Whittingham and illustrator Emma Pederson! The author and Pajama Press are very kindly offering one Canadian reader a chance to win a copy of Queenie Quail Can’t Keep Up– so read […]
Welcome to another round-up of recently read and recommended picture books! In no particular order, here are the titles: let’s start off with the deliciously screwball- and beautifully illustrated- That’s Not a Hippopotamus! by Juliette MacIver, illustrated by Sarah Davis, about a class trip to the zoo that goes awry when a hippopotamus goes missing and a classmate who keeps […]
Review: Click by Kayla Miller (additional color by Katherine Efird, design by Andrea Miller) Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: January 8, 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Book Description: For fans of Smile and Real Friends comes a debut graphic novel about friendship and finding where you click” in middle school. Olive wants to get in on […]
Review: Past Due for Murder (A Blue Ridge Library Mystery #3) by Victoria Gilbert Source: ARC courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: February 12, 2019 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town’s long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library […]
Welcome to one of the last stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour for Canadian author Eileen Cook‘s latest YA novel, You Owe Me a Murder! Read on for my thoughts on the novel as well as a Q&A with Eileen. Be sure to take a look at the postcard at the bottom of the post and check out the […]
Review and giveaway time! Courtesy of the very kind folks at Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House Canada, I have book seven in Stephan Pastis‘s Timmy Failure series, It’s the End When I Say It’s the End. Read on for my thoughts on the book and information on how Canadian residents can enter to win a copy! …”Sometimes you made me want […]
