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Must Read Monday (71): Children’s Titles from Jason Reynolds, Robin Stevens, Celia C. Pérez & more!
Welcome to another edition of Must Read Monday! This feature is where I spotlight older, recent, or upcoming releases I am looking forward to. The lists will include all genres I like to read, everything from picture books to comics, children’s lit to adult fiction! This week: more children’s fiction! I can’t help Read more
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Travels with my family…
Long-ish time, no post! Mr. Fab and I are currently traveling and visiting family, and thus ability to post and review has been limited! Hope to be back with posts soon. A brief bookish note: if you haven’t yet had a chance to read Jason Reynolds’s middle grade novel Ghost (Track #1)– I cannot recommend Read more
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Must Read Monday (70): Children’s Fiction from Mary E. Lambert, Beth McMullen, Dusti Bowling & more!
Welcome to another edition of Must Read Monday! This feature is where I spotlight older, recent, or upcoming releases I am looking forward to. The lists will include all genres I like to read, everything from picture books to comics, children’s lit to adult fiction! This week: all children’s fiction! A mish-mash of genres is Read more
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Great Picture Books! (11, Part 2)
Some great picture books I’ve recently read and would recommend! Let’s start off with a lovely new picture book from Canadian author-illustrator Carey Sookocheff: Wet by Carey Sookocheff* Publication: June 20, 2017 by Henry Holt and Co. This is a quiet, restrained, straightforward story about- you guessed it!- everything wet. From slowly lowering into a Read more
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We now interrupt regularly scheduled programming…
The above comic doesn’t have anything to do with what I’m posting about…but I always like a chance to feature a comic! Especially if it’s Pearls Before Swine… Anyhow! Lovely readers and visitors to my site might have noticed that posting of any kind has been…sporadic at best lately. There’s a bit of major, happy Read more
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Must Read Monday (69): Children’s Titles from Victoria Jamieson, Casey Lyall, Beth Vrabel & more!
Welcome to another edition of Must Read Monday! This feature is where I spotlight older, recent, or upcoming releases I am looking forward to. The lists will include all genres I like to read, everything from picture books to comics, children’s lit to adult fiction! This week: more children’s fiction! It’s been a few weeks Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: Jennifer Honeybourn’s Wesley James Ruined My Life!
Welcome to the last stop on the Raincoast Books blog tour for Jennifer Honeybourn‘s contemporary YA debut, Wesley James Ruined My Life! Read on for my thoughts on the book as well as a short Q & A with Jennifer! Wesley James Ruined My Life by Jennifer Honeybourn Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank Read more
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Picture Book Review: Charlotte the Scientist is Squished by Camille Andros & Brianne Farley
Review: Charlotte the Scientist is Squished by Camille Andros, illus. Brianne Farley Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: March 14, 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Book Description: Charlotte is a serious scientist. She solves important problems by following the scientific method. She has all the right equipment: protective glasses, a lab coat, Read more
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Coming up: Blog Tour for Jennifer Honeybourn’s Wesley James Ruined My Life
Coming up on the site: the Raincoast Books blog tour for Jennifer Honeybourn‘s debut young adult novel, Wesley James Ruined My Life stops here on Sunday, July 23! You can take a look at the blog tour postcard below to see which awesome bloggers/reviewers are participating and when; the tour for this Canadian-authored title starts Read more
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Picture Book Review: Pete With No Pants by Rowboat Watkins
Review: Pete With No Pants by Rowboat Watkins Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: May 2, 2017 by Chronicle Books Book Description: Meet Pete. Pete is gray. He’s round. And he’s not wearing any pants. So Pete must be a boulder. Or is he a pigeon? Or a squirrel? Or a cloud? Read more
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