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Top Ten Tuesday: Recently Added to My To-Be-Read Shelf
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I have not been doing a great job (at all!) keeping up and participating, but I have been inspired this week! Now, this week is actually a freebie week, so I thought I’d focus on… Read more
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Must Read Monday (60): YA from Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, Paula Stokes, Simon Mason & 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 is all about young adult fiction! Even whittled… Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli
Welcome to one of the stops (the last one!) on the Raincoast Books blog tour for David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli’s graphic novel Fish Girl! Please read on for my thoughts as well as a look inside the book… Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books.… Read more
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Must Read Monday (59): New Heavenly Nostrils, HiLo and Bird & Squirrel!
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 is all about children’s graphic novel series! New… Read more
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Coming up: Blog Tour for Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli!
Next week, I am participating in the Raincoast Books organized tour for Fish Girl, a graphic novel by multiple Caldecott winner David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli! I am delighted to be taking part as I am a huge fan of David Wiesner’s illustrative work (Sector 7, Flotsam, Mr. Wuffles) and Donna Jo Napoli’s work… Read more
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Picture Book Review: The King of the Birds by Acree Graham Macam & Natalie Nelson
Review: The King of the Birds by Acree Graham Macam, illus. Natalie Nelson Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press. Thank you! Publication: September 2016 by Groundwood Books Book Description: In this picture book, inspired by the life of Flannery O’Connor, a young fan of fowl brings home a peacock to be… Read more
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Review: Armstrong & Charlie by Steven B. Frank
Review: Armstrong & Charlie by Steven B. Frank Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Expected publication: March 7, 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Book Description: Charlie isn’t looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he’ll finish it. And when he does, he’ll grow older than the brother he… Read more
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Review: The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend
dReview: The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Expected publication: March 7, 2017 by Farrar Straus & Giroux Book Description: Hollis Darby-Barnes has never met her father, but she hates him. For making her feel like a lab experiment, a half-person, a freak. Sometimes she fantasizes about tracking the guy… Read more
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Must Read Monday (58): Children’s Fiction from Casey Lyall, Mike Grosso, Jennifer Torres & 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 is all about middle grade fiction! I am… Read more
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