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Disney Princess Chapter Book: Aurora—The Perfect Party, Liz Kazandzhy
Disney Princess Chapter Book: Aurora—The Perfect Party, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
It’s almost been a year since Aurora moved in the castle with the fairies after marrying Prince Phillip. When Aurora overhears the fairies talking about how much they miss the old cottage, Aurora decides to throw them a surprise party, right before her own birthday party. She takes notes of what they miss the most—forget-me-not flowers, fresh strawberries, and how the birds used to sing—and makes plans to incorporate those into her party. The hardest part is keeping all of this a secret from the fairies! Aurora enlists the help of her husband to creatively keep the fairies distracted while …
Alike And Different: My Religion, Your Religion, Liz Kazandzhy
Alike And Different: My Religion, Your Religion, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
David’s friend Zach has invited him to his Jewish bar mitzvah, but David has never been to a Jewish synagogue before. He and his father research more about the Jewish faith and then go to support Zach, learning all sorts of interesting things about the Jewish religion. On Sunday, David and his dad go to their Lutheran church, though he and his mom often go to the Catholic church together. Later he volunteers at a soup kitchen and sees his friend from school helping too, though she doesn’t belong to any church. After learning more about the Muslim and Buddhists …
Alike And Different: My Family, Your Family, Liz Kazandzhy
Alike And Different: My Family, Your Family, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Makayla is waiting for her baby brother to be born, and her parents encourage her to learn more about different kinds of families. She starts off at her friend Mateo’s house, where everyone talks loudly, speaks Spanish, and has lots of fun. Next she passes Ms. Betsy and Ms. Roberta, a couple with no kids, and tells them all about her family. She then has lunch with Olivia and her dad and learns more about divorce and stepfamilies, and she stops by Jake and his grandparents who take care of him. Finally she visits Parker, a boy with two dads, …
A Nearer Moon, Tessa Mcmillan
A Nearer Moon, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Perdita and Pelagia are sister water sprites thriving along the jungle riverbanks. When the sprite community temporarily open a portal into another world, Perdita is left behind and she loses a locket that could transport her back to Pelagia’s side. Perdita’s loss and loneliness overwhelm her, causing her to curse the tributaries into a sludge-filled swamp. Several decades later, Luna and her little sister, Willow, are boating near Perdita’s lair when Willow swallows the cursed water. Consuming this water will kill anyone within three weeks. Not wanting to watch Willow die, Luna searches for a cure. Unfortunately, many have failed …
A Meal Of The Stars: Poems Up And Down, Liz Kazandzhy
A Meal Of The Stars: Poems Up And Down, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
A Meal of the Stars presents fifteen fun vertical poems, with individual words stacked one on top of the other, to celebrate the ups and downs of the world. Poems either start from the top down (church bells ringing, stars gleaming) or from the bottom up (a dandelion growing, the takeoff of a rocket ship), and vivid illustrations take up the rest of the space on the pages.
Zombies Vs. Unicorns, Katelyn Osborn
Zombies Vs. Unicorns, Katelyn Osborn
Children's Book and Media Review
Do you prefer hanging out with the creepy, staggering undead, or the rare, lethal unicorns? Would you rather travel by slow shuffling, or by frenzied galloping? Are you drawn to fresh brains, or to innocent young women? Still confused? Pick up Zombies vs. Unicorns, and you’ll find out once and for all which side you’re on. Alternating between zombie and unicorn adventures, this book is a compilation of short stories written by some of today’s favorite YA authors – Scott Westerfield, Libba Bray, Garth Nix, and Meg Cabot, to name a few – with narration by Holly Black and Justine …
Where's The Pair? A Spotting Book, Sydnee Burr
Where's The Pair? A Spotting Book, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
In this book of discovery, children have a challenge on every page. Each page has a rhyme and a task, such as finding the two cats who match out of an entire page of cats. Great for learning and inquisitive minds, this spotting book will keep children and parents quietly entertained.
When A Monster Is Born, Aylea Stephens
When A Monster Is Born, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When a monster is born, everything after that has two possibilities. Either it lives far away in the forests or it will live under your bed. Either you might get eaten, or you might take it to school. The monster has different alternatives going from joining the school basketball team, eating the principal, sleeping in an expensive hotel in the faraway-forests, falling in love with the hotel’s kitchen girl, and possibly getting married so that another monster can be born with the same possibilities that its parent had.
The Vault Of Dreamers, Liz Kazandzhy
The Vault Of Dreamers, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Rosie Sinclair has just been accepted to the prestigious Forge School, an elite high school for art students and also the source of the nation’s most famous television program, The Forge Show. Viewers get constant feeds of all the students at Forge and help determine who stays and goes. After miraculously making it through the first cut (with the help of her new boyfriend Linus and some new popular friends), Rosie is relieved to be staying in the Forge School. However, she begins skipping the sleeping pills that they are given every night and starts to discover some suspicious activity. …
Two Bunny Buddies, Liz Kazandzhy
Two Bunny Buddies, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Two bunnies embark together to go find lunch, but when their path splits, so do their opinions. One bunny angrily goes one way while the other goes the other way, and both find something on the path to eat. But now that they’re alone, they start to miss each other, so they both decide to gather what they can, run back to one another, and enjoy lunch together as best bunny bunnies.
Trick Or Treat, Marley!, Aylea Stephens
Trick Or Treat, Marley!, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Cassie, Louis, Mommy, and Daddy are especially excited for Halloween because this year they are throwing a party for all of their friends. Everyone, including Marley, wants to help Mommy get ready. First they carve a pumpkin, and Marely gets his head stuck in the pumpkin. When the family tries to decorate, Marley pops all the balloons and destroys the confetti. Marley bobs for apples, steals the tail instead of playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, and finds all the hidden candy before the kids do. However, in the end, Marley and the rest of the family still have …
This Monstrous Thing, Kiersten Carr
This Monstrous Thing, Kiersten Carr
Children's Book and Media Review
Alasdair Finch is a Shadow Boy, an illegal mechanic who works on people with clockwork prosthetics when the rest of society shuns them. He and his family move from place to place, keeping their business a secret and hiding from law enforcement, but Alasdair has a secret even beyond his family’s: he has brought his older brother, Oliver, back from the dead using clockwork. Horrified by the changes Oliver has undergone as part of this process, Alasdair cares for him in secret. Then comes the publication of the novel Frankenstein, and the city cracks down on clockworks and Shadow Boys …
The Ugly One, Liz Kazandzhy
The Ugly One, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Micay is a 12-year-old Incan girl known in her village as “The Ugly One” because of a large scar that runs along the right side of her face. Because of being bullied relentlessly by the boys in the village, she has become secluded and tries to avoid others so as not to shame them with her ugliness. But all that changes one day when a stranger comes to town and gives her the gift of a baby macaw. As the macaw (named Sumac) grows bigger and more handsome (and also occasionally defends Micay from her bullies), Micay also grows in …
The Thickety: A Path Begins, Aylea Stephens
The Thickety: A Path Begins, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Kara’s mother is killed for witchcraft when Kara is only six years old. She grows up as an outcast, doing her best to take care of her little brother, Taff, and her distant father. The villagers believe that nothing is more evil than magic except the Thickety, the forest where Sordyr lives. One day a bird lures Kara into the Thickety and she discovers a book that may have belonged to her mother. In spite of the danger that she is in from associating with magic, Kara can’t stop feeling drawn to the book and discovering new ways to use …
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale Of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, And A Very Interesting Boy, Cynthia Frazier
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale Of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, And A Very Interesting Boy, Cynthia Frazier
Children's Book and Media Review
What do you get when a widower takes his four daughters, ages twelve to four, and a dog on vacation? You get a story set in a time before cell phones and internet, when playing sports, make believe, and exploring was the way to spend an enjoyable summer. Mr. Penderwick, a biologist, loves plants and the country is full of interesting specimens. Rosalind, Skye, Jane and Batty are his daughters. Each has her own personality, talents, and foibles weaving a wonderful story of family love and sibling interaction. Add a young boisterous dog, named Hound, who eats inappropriate things like …
The Case Of The Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery, Aylea Stephens
The Case Of The Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
This book explores the mystery of why little brown bats are disappearing and the problems their disappearance could cause. Because bats eat insects that do damage to crops and transmit diseases, bats are important to the ecosystem. Researchers learned that these bats were dying in large numbers in 2007, and since then they have tried to find out why they keep dying and why the bats were flying during the winter when they should have been hibernating. The book explores what hibernating bats need to survive, what the killers could possibly be, the process it took to find the killer, …
Tacky And The Haunted Igloo, Aylea Stephens
Tacky And The Haunted Igloo, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Halloween is coming to the penguins in Nice Icy Land, so the penguins have decided to turn their igloo into a haunted igloo for their trick-or-treaters. Goodly and Lovely decorate their home with Halloween decorations and Angel, Neatly, and Perfect make all kinds of spooky treats. Tacky ate the treats. The penguins need to choose scary costumes so that they can be the one to haunt their igloo, so they all dress up as things that they are afraid of. But Tacky can’t think of anything that scares him. When something really scary comes to their door, there are no …
The Sleeper And The Spindle, Kiersten Carr
The Sleeper And The Spindle, Kiersten Carr
Children's Book and Media Review
When the dwarfs come to tell a young queen on the eve of her wedding that the neighboring kingdom is plagued with a magical sleep, she postpones her nuptials, calls for her sword and mail shirt, and sets out to investigate. She herself has slept a magical sleep for a year, and if anyone can resist the spell and rescue the princess at the heart of it, it’s her. In the castle surrounded by roses and thorns, a very old woman lives out a lonely existence surrounded by sleepers, including one beautiful young girl in the tallest tower whom she …
Scaredy-Cat Splat, Aylea Stephens
Scaredy-Cat Splat, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Splat the Cat wants to be the scariest cat in his class. However, this is difficult when Splat is scared of things himself. He’s scared of things like spiders with their scary eyes. When he decides the spider is not as scary as he originally thought, he wants to take the spider to school to go alone with his scary witch’s hat costume. His costume is ruined, so he has to change his costume and no one thinks his new costume or his jack-o-lantern are scary. Lucky for Splat, there are still opportunities for him to earn the award for …
Profiles #6: Peace Warriors, Liz Kazandzhy
Profiles #6: Peace Warriors, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Peace Warriors is a compilation of six biographies of social activists who sought to bring about positive change during difficult times using peaceful means. Presented in chronological order, the biographies include the following people: Mahatma Gandhi (1869), who promoted racial equality and political independence in India; Dorothy Day (1897), an American journalist and pacifist who helped the poor and homeless; Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929), leader of the American civil rights movement; Desmond Tutu (1931), a South African man who worked to end apartheid; the 14th Dalai Lama (1935), who has advocated harmony among religions in Tibet; and Ellen Johnson …
The Princess In Black And The Perfect Princess Party, Aylea Stephens
The Princess In Black And The Perfect Princess Party, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Princess Magnolia has a big secret. She is the Princess in Black that protects her kingdom from the monsters who want to cause trouble by eating the goats. Sometimes, though, she wants to have a regular life and do princess things, particularly on her birthday. Every time she goes to open presents with her party guests, the princess from other countries, her glitter-stone ring sounds an alarm to tell her that she needs to go fight a monster. She has to keep her guests from finding out that she is the Princess in Black by coming up with other activities, …
Pip And Posy: The Scary Monster, Whitney Troxel
Pip And Posy: The Scary Monster, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Posy is making cupcakes when a monster appears at her door. She is very frightened until she realizes it is just Pip in a costume. Pip apologizes for scaring her and let's Posy have a turn wearing the monster costume. They play all day and then have a snack.
Pete The Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, Aylea Stephens
Pete The Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Using the classic “Five Little Pumpkins” theme, Pete the Cat celebrates Halloween. With illustrations to add Pete the Cat into this Halloween adventure, the pumpkins use the classic rhyme to describe the witches in the air and celebrating Halloween in a way that will already be familiar to many of its readers.
Owly & Wormy: Bright Lights And Starry Nights, Liz Kazandzhy
Owly & Wormy: Bright Lights And Starry Nights, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
All that Owly and Wormy want is to see the stars. They begin looking through a telescope near their treehouse, but when they realize the trees get in the way of the stars, they pack up their gear and head to an open area the next day to try again. Unfortunately, it starts to rain, so they seek shelter in a nearby cave, only to become frightened at the strange noises coming from within. They run back to their previous spot until the rain lets up, but then they realize they lost their telescope in all the commotion. Wormy guards …
Otter Loves Halloween, Aylea Stephens
Otter Loves Halloween, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Halloween is the best holiday ever! Otter and Teddy have been counting down the days to Halloween for months. They prepare by going pumpkin shopping, decorating the house (and a few things they shouldn’t have), and making Halloween costumes for Otter, Teddy, and Giraffe. The trick-or-treaters come at last, but they are too scary! However, Otter Keeper manages to come to the rescue with new costumes so that Otter, Pig, Giraffe, and Teddy can have the best Halloween ever.
The Nightmare Club #2: Help! My Brother's A Zombie, Whitney Troxel
The Nightmare Club #2: Help! My Brother's A Zombie, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Every year Annie Graves hosts a Halloween sleepover with all her friends where they take turns telling scary stories. The second story is told by Jack, who thinks his older brother is a zombie. Jack and his brother used to be really close. But things began to change when Jack’s brother started high school. His skin turned green, he began to smell, and he even tried to take a bite out of Jack’s arm! Jack’s parents said they sent his brother to boarding school, but Jack keeps hearing strange noises coming from the attic. When he wakes up with a …
The Nightmare Club #1: A Dog's Breakfast, Whitney Troxel
The Nightmare Club #1: A Dog's Breakfast, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Every year Annie Graves hosts a Halloween sleepover with all her friends where they take turns telling scary stories. The first story is about a boy named Glen who was mean, always complained, and lied to everyone. When his class goes on a field trip to hike through the woods, Glen gets lost. He runs into a small person, about the size of the fairy. The small person places a spell on Glen. The next time Glen makes someone feel bad he'll start to turn into something more useful, but if he can go a full day without making anyone …
Nelly May Has Her Say, Tessa Mcmillan
Nelly May Has Her Say, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Nelly May is the oldest child of her large, poor family. She leaves home seeking employment from Lord Ignasius Pinkwinkle. Lord Pinkwinkle will hire Nelly May if she can remember all his special names for things around the house. After a very confusing tour of his home, Nelly May agrees to Lord Pinkwinkle’s conditions and memorizes his nonsense words. Late that night, Nelly May is awakened by the smell of smoke. She runs to Lord Pinkwinkle’s room and explains the dilemma using all of his ridiculous terms. As soon as she finishes, she quits and returns home. The next day, …
The Monsterator, Aylea Stephens
The Monsterator, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Master Edgar Dreadbury thinks that Halloween is boring. Choosing a costume is a chore. Dressing up as a pirate, mummy, clown, or other things doesn't please him. He wanted to be something terrifying. When he goes to a different shop to find a costume, he puts a dime into a big, grimy machine called the MONSTERATOR. Edgar was MONSTERATED, turning him into something unrecognizable and terrifying everyone from squirrels to girls. When he’s decided that he’s done with scaring people on Halloween, he doesn’t know how to turn back into a human. In the end, he decides that staying as …
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Cynthia Frazier
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Cynthia Frazier
Children's Book and Media Review
Jacob Portman is 16. He comes from a rich family, has a job in the family business that he hates, is a nerd, has only one friend, regularly has nightmares about monsters and has a beloved Grandfather whose dying request changes Jacob’s life. A Jewish child during World War II, Grandpa spent the war in an orphanage run by a Miss Peregrine on an island in Wales. Jacob and his father travel Europe to help Jacob fulfill his grandfather’s wish. Jacob finds Miss Peregrine’s ruined house, he finds a trunk of strange old photographs of people and places, which leads …