Children’s
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Review: The Best of Iggy (Iggy Frangi #1) by Annie Barrows and Sam Ricks
Review: The Best of Iggy (Iggy Frangi #1) by Annie Barrows, illus. Sam Ricks Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada. Thank you! Publication: January 21, 2020 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Book Description: Meet Iggy Frangi. He’s not a bad kid, he’s really not. Okay, so he’s done a few Read more
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Picture Book Review: Mabel: A Mermaid Fable by Rowboat Watkins
Review: Mabel: A Mermaid Fable by Rowboat Watkins Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Expected publication: March 24, 2020 by Chronicle Books Book Description: A lovely and laugh-out-loud picture book from the award-winning author of Rude Cakes and Most Marshmallows . Mabel isn’t like the other mermaids. Lucky isn’t like the other Read more
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Spotlight: Interview with Author Tanya Lloyd Kyi!
In this all-new interview, I am delighted to have the opportunity to welcome Canadian author Tanya Lloyd Kyi! Tanya’s latest, the contemporary middle grade novel, Me and Bansky, was recently been released; you may also recognize the author from the middle grade novel Mya’s Strategy to Save the World, various non-fiction titles, as well as Read more
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Board Book Look (7)!
It has been quite some time since a board books round-up! With my firstborn, she wanted to explore just about every single board book- from our library’s collection, from bookstores, from our home library, you name it! With my youngest, he has his specific handful of favourites, with new ones making the cut if they Read more
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Picture Book Review: Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph
Review: Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Wunderkind PR and HarperCollins Publishers. Thank you! Publication: December 3, 2019 by HarperCollins Book Description: It’s a dog’s life in the big, busy city, but there’s one lonely pup who doesn’t quite fit in. She behaves differently from the rest, sports rainbow in a Read more
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Graphic Novel Review: Cub by Cynthia L. Copeland
Review: Cub by Cynthia L. Copeland Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Thomas Allen & Son. Thank you! Publication: January 7, 2020 by Algonquin Books Book Description: A laugh-out-loud funny and empowering graphic memoir about growing up and finding your voice. Twelve-year-old Cindy has just dipped a toe into seventh-grade drama—with its complicated friendships, bullies, and cute Read more
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Great Children’s Non-Fiction! (6)
Welcome to a new round up featuring recently read and recommended children’s non-fiction titles! Just a note that your library may catalogue some of these titles in children’s non-fiction or in picture books, etc.- it really depends on how your library has decided to categorize them! In no particular order here are the standouts: let’s Read more
biographical, blair thornburgh, children’s, children’s non-fiction, cynthia lord, diana sudyka, excellent, great children’s non-fiction, hayley barrett, hazel mitchell, john bald, julie morstad, katy wu, kyo maclear, laurie wallmark, read alouds, rebecca huang, scott campbell, teresa robeson, very good -
Great Picture Books! (27)
Just over a week into 2020 already! Thank you fellow bloggers, reviewers and readers of this site for your continued support, visits, comments, and entries to book giveaways. Here’s to a new year of more bookish goodness, including new reviews, giveaways, creator spotlights and other good things! I thought it might be a pleasant way Read more
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Spotlight: Interview with Children’s Author and Illustrator Aidan Cassie!
Welcome to the final post of 2019 friends! And what could be a more special and cool way to usher in the New Year than with a spotlight on a fantastic children’s artist? Canadian author and illustrator Aidan Cassie– who debuted on the children’s literature scene with the delightful Sterling, Best Dog Ever– published her Read more
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Holiday Spotlight on The Little Snowplow Wishes for Snow, Peppa Pig and Maisy!
Three more fun and sweet just-right for Christmas and winter children’s books on the review docket! Thanks to the lovely folks at Penguin Random House Canada/Candlewick Press, I have the pleasure of talking about: The Little Snowplow Wishes for Snow by Lora Koehler and Jake Parker, Peppa Pig and the Christmas Play, and Maisy’s Christmas Read more
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