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The Wonderful Things You Will Be, Kristie Hinckley
The Wonderful Things You Will Be, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Parents can see such potential in their little ones. The Wonderful Things You Will Be is perfect for a read-aloud for your children to express your love. This book reminds us that no child is the same. They each look different and have their own potential and challenges. This book is a more realistic version of Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
What To Expect When You're Expecting Hatchlings: A Guide For Crocodilian Parents, Aylea Stephens
What To Expect When You're Expecting Hatchlings: A Guide For Crocodilian Parents, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
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The View From Saturday, Kristie Hinckley
The View From Saturday, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Join four sixth graders and their teacher, Mrs. O., as they tell share their journeys leading up to being chosen to compete on the sixth grade Academic Bowl team. Each student has a different background and family life.Noah’s life becomes that much more exciting when he unexpectedly becomes the best man at his classmate’s grandparents’ wedding. Ethan has an older brother who set the bar really high, which makes him anxious as he figures out what he is good at. Nadia’s parents are divorced, so she spends some time in Florida getting to know herself and her dad. Julian is …
Odd Duck, Aylea Stephens
Odd Duck, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Theodora is a normal duck. She does her morning laps with a cup of tea on her head to maintain her posture, eats her duck food with mango salsa, reads books that haven’t been checked out from the library in years, and didn’t travel south for the winter with the other ducks, but there was nothing strange about all of that. Her new neighbor, Chad, however, is an odd duck. He is just not the kind of duck that she wants to spend time with. She looks forward to winter when he will fly south, but he doesn’t leave. During …
Not For Sale, Jess Brown
Not For Sale, Jess Brown
Children's Book and Media Review
After he turns down the contract with a major movie company so he can write his own screenplay, Sean still isn’t done in the business world. He wants to sell the idea that will change the entertainment industry forever. He emails a head a company, but also continues to get emails from other companies about his movie. Because more than one company is interested he thinks it would be a good idea to start a bidding war. In between negotiating terms, pretending to be Dan Welch (his manager), and doing research to write his screenplay, mysterious things happen that make …
Ellen Tebbits, Kristie Hinckley
Ellen Tebbits, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Beverly Cleary puts you in the shoes of fourth grader Ellen Tebbits in this chapter book. Ellen is quick to please her peers, which can get her into a lot of trouble. She desperately wants to please her teacher as well. Ellen hasn’t been chosen by the teacher to clap erasers outside this year and Otis, her arch rival, has already done it three times already! How unfair! Life can be hard sometimes, but in the end Ellen gets her best friend back and all is right in her world.
Bone Gap, Abigail Packard
Bone Gap, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Finn and his older brother, Sean, live in Bone Gap, a quiet town where everyone knows each other. When Roza, a young woman fleeing from some unknown horror, arrives Finn and Sean invite her to live in an apartment attached to their home. But only months later, Roza disappears. Finn tries to figure out what happened to Roza while Sean urges Finn to forget her, throwing himself in his work to escape his own heartbreak. But Finn refuses and becomes closer to Priscilla “Petey” Willis. As Finn and Petey’s feelings for each other deepen, Finn discovers he has a disorder …
Bel The Weather Girl: A Party For Clouds: Thunderstorms, Ariel Woodbury
Bel The Weather Girl: A Party For Clouds: Thunderstorms, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Bel and her cousin Dylan are having a sleepover when BOOM! A thunderstorm starts outside. Dylan is frightened of the thunder, but Bel helps him realize that weather isn't so scary once you understand it. Bel teaches him how thunder and lightening happen at the same time, what causes thunder, and how to tell how far away the storm is. This is a great choice for kids who are scared of thunderstorms. They can try playing the game in the story to tell how far away the storm is and if it is getting closer or farther away. The book …
Penny And Her Marble, Kristie Hinckley
Penny And Her Marble, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
One day, Penny finds a marble in Mrs. Goodwin’s lawn. No one is watching, so she takes it and races home. Penny loves how smooth, shiny, and blue the marble is. She hides it in her dresser drawer. Penny see Mrs. Goodwin looking around on her lawn and is worried. Penny can't stop thinking about the marble she took. Penny is so distracted and nervous that nothing is fun anymore. She even dreams about Mrs. Goodwin and the marble! In the morning, Penny decides to return the marble to its spot. When she does, Mrs. Goodwin comes out to tell …
Information Graphics: Space, Ariel Woodbury
Information Graphics: Space, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
What is the universe? How did it begin and how did it evolve to what it is today? This book covers seven key topics of astronomy including the universe, galaxies and stars, the solar system, the sun, the earth and the moon, observing space, and our exploration of space. Each section illustrates the main concepts of the topic. For example, the chapter about the universe answers questions starting from what scientists identify as the beginning of time. Each chapter in this book covers some main concepts for that topic, but doesn’t go into depth on any particular issue. While the …
My Friend Rabbit, Kristie Hinckley
My Friend Rabbit, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
My Friend Rabbit is about mouse's friend Rabbit who means well, but always gets into trouble. Rabbit gets an airplane stuck in a tree and has a brilliant idea to stack up zoo animals, including an elephant, a rhino, a hippo, and a bear, to help them reach it. But the plane is still out of reach! After Rabbit’s last effort, the animals come tumbling down. The animals are not happy, but Rabbit means well. This book might leave you thinking about some of your friends that may be like Rabbit sometimes. In the end, good friends stick around through …
Say What You Will, Aylea Stephens
Say What You Will, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Amy can’t walk without a walker, talk without the help of a machine, or control her facial expressions and some of her body moments. Matthew has obsessive compulsive disorder that he can’t admit and controls his life. They are put together when Amy decides she wants to make real friends and convinces her mom to hire student aides to help her during her senior year of high school. Having these student aids allows her to try to make friends for the first time, but she soon realizes that she wants to be more than just friends with Matthew. Both have …
Mrs. Noodlekugel, Kristie Hinckley
Mrs. Noodlekugel, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Nick and Maxine are two young, curious siblings who just moved into a new apartment building. Soon after they move in, they notice a cute little house behind their building. They venture out and knock on the door and meet a talking cat! Mrs. Noodlekugel is the owner of the little house and invites them in. They are introduced to Mr. Fuzzface, the cat, and four far-sighted mice. In the end, Mrs. Noodlekugel becomes their new babysitter and they drink tea with her and eat cookies made with the help of the far-sighted mice! Mrs. Noodlekugel is a fun book …
Boom! Boom! Boom!, Ariel Woodbury
Boom! Boom! Boom!, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
The thunder booms outside and no one wants to be alone. A little boy is joined under the covers by his animals friends, one by one, until the bed can't hold them all! The bed breaks and everyone scatters, leaving the little boy and his teddy bear to sleep alone at last. The story has a rhyming narrative that counts along as the number of animals in the boy's bed increases with each turn of the page. The storm outside the boy's room is paired with large, colorful type for its onomatopoetic booms and crashes. The illustrations have soft edges …
Broken Hearts And Revenge #3: Hearts, Fingers, And Other Things To Cross, Aylea Stephens
Broken Hearts And Revenge #3: Hearts, Fingers, And Other Things To Cross, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
If things between Gemma and Hallie weren't already bad enough, their parents are now engaged and they're stuck in the Hamptons together during a hurricane. Putting their own conflict aside, the girls decide to do whatever is necessary to split up their parents. But when a hurricane comes Gemma, Hallie, Ford, Teddy, and Sophie are all stuck trying to survive the storm while also working on their schemes. During the course of the storm, the girls discover the truth of what happened between them and who was trying to drive them apart for their own personal gain. In the end, …
Sarah, Plain And Tall, Kristie Hinckley
Sarah, Plain And Tall, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Anna and Caleb are two young children living in a small home on the prairie. Their mother dies shortly after Caleb’s birth and their father starts to look for a new wife. Sarah, a plain and tall woman from Maine responds to the ad in the paper. She promises to stay for a month to see how they get along. The children desperately want a mother, but are afraid to get their hopes up. In the end, Sarah chooses to stay despite their quirks and her longing for home. Sarah, Plain and Tall is the first book in a series …
Art, Kristie Hinckley
Art, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Art by Patrick McDonnell is a cute book based on the fact that Art can be a name and art can be a beautiful creation made by a child. Art experiments with making all kinds of lines and doodles with different mediums. When he tires and falls asleep, all of his doodles culminate in a beautiful, imaginative piece. This rhyming book ends with his mother appreciating Art and…his art! Children should experiment with creativity and be proud of their creations. The illustrations in Art are largely paintbrush strokes, consistent throughout the interior and exterior pages. The story begins with an …
Hippomobile!, Aylea Stephens
Hippomobile!, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Jimmy and Stella are the only kids in their little town of Wymore. They have forty-seven grandmas and grandpas in this retirement community, and are perfectly happy in their slow, quiet lives. However, when the grandma the runs the restaurant says that she’s going to have to close it because she doesn’t get enough customers, the twins are determined to find a way to save their little town. The answer to getting more people in the town seems to be centered around the town’s treasure, a broken hippomobile with a fascinating past. If Jimmy and Stella can find a way …
Signs Of Summer, Kristie Hinckley
Signs Of Summer, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
The seasons are explained in a simplified way (without mentioning details about the tilt of earth’s axis) for children to understand. A table of contents, glossary, and index are provided in Signs of Summer with interesting facts scattered throughout the book. Readers will learn about the characteristics of summer and activities kids like to do in summer. Readers may even be left wondering what they like to do best in summer. The book also includes a quiz to test the reader’s knowledge about summer. Signs of Summer is one of four books in the Signs of the Seasons series. Colorful …
Daylight Starlight Wild Life, Kelsie Ward
Daylight Starlight Wild Life, Kelsie Ward
Children's Book and Media Review
Daylight Starlight Wild Life is a brilliant depiction for the introduction of diurnal and nocturnal creatures. This story leads the reader to experience a variety of animals and their roaming habits by day and night, and back again. The story itself creates a contrasting displays of animals from a red-tailed hawk that soars by day, to a wide-eyed barn owl that is silent by night. A cottontail rabbit and kits to a pink-nosed opossum and family, and many more. Many of the animals are familiar to children, such as rabbits and deer, but there are also several that are lesser …
Palace Of Spies, Aylea Stephens
Palace Of Spies, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Peggy is kicked out of her uncle’s house because she refuses to marry the man her uncle wants her to, she is thrown into a world of the royal court and espionage. The mysterious man who claims to know her father asks her to play the part of Lady Francesca at Hampton Court. Peggy has to find the information that her new benefactors want, but uncovering what happened to Lady Francesca could be a matter of life or death for her as she starts to uncover the Jacobite plot to change who rules England. During her time at court …
Broken Hearts & Revenge #2: Revenge, Ice Cream, And Other Things Best Served Cold, Aylea Stephens
Broken Hearts & Revenge #2: Revenge, Ice Cream, And Other Things Best Served Cold, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Starting right from the end of the first book in the series, Gemma is dealing with the discovery that Hallie knew who she was all along and that she might have ruined their friendship even more when she had pretended to be someone else to correct it. To make things even more complicated, Ford, her longtime crush, and Teddy, her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with Hallie, are back in the Hamptons. Now instead of Hallie being the one behind all of the revenge plots, Gemma now wants revenge on Hallie for stealing her boyfriend and trying to make her …
Criss Cross, Kristie Hinckley
Criss Cross, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Criss Cross is the story of several young teenagers whose paths cross over the course of a few months. Hector, Phil, Debbie, and Lenny are neighbors who like listening to their favorite radio show together. Debbie meets Peter through a housekeeping job. Hector meets Meadow and Russell in a group guitar lesson. This group of teenagers learn about friendship, growing up, and love while breaking the rules, saving lives, and finding themselves at the same time. Criss Cross focuses on the small moments that make up the people we become. The descriptive language, similes, metaphors, and figurative language that Lynne …
How To Find A Fox, Ariel Woodbury
How To Find A Fox, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
This little girl is on a mission to find a fox! But when looking in a fox hole and leaving fox bait out doesn't work, she decides to try a different approach. After spending the day searching for a fox, the girl is very tired. She takes a rest and discovers that sometimes the fox wants to find you instead! How to Find a Fox is a fantastic book. The sneaky fox eludes the little girl on every page and children will love looking for him and enjoy his (sometimes silly) disguises. The illustrations are incredibly well done with vibrant …
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race To Save Africa's Fastest Cat, Aylea Stephens
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race To Save Africa's Fastest Cat, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
In another beautiful book in the Scientist in the Field series, readers can learn about the efforts to keep cheetahs safe from a world that threatens them. The dramatic decline in the number of cheetahs in the last hundred years have led some scientists to dedicating their lives to the study and protection of these creatures. The book details efforts to help people understand cheetahs and be able to work with them with efforts such as giving farmers dogs to protect their lands so the farmers don't feel the need to kill cheetahs. Chasing Cheetahs: The Race To Save Africa's …
Monstrous, Aylea Stephens
Monstrous, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Kym’s father created her to help defeat an evil wizard and save the girls of the city of Bryne. She is part dragon, part bird, and part human. The special way she is made makes her immune from the wizard’s curse, enabling her to rescue girls one at a time from the wizard’s prison. She can’t talk to the humans, however. Her father tells her that if she does, they will kill her because of her differences. When she encounters one boy, Ren, on her nightly visits to Byrne, she learns that he also knows about the missing girl and …
The Secret Of Goldenrod, Aylea Stephens
The Secret Of Goldenrod, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Trina and her family move around the country for her father's job doing different construction projects, but Trina longs for a more permanent place to call home. When she and her father move into Goldenrod to work on the house, everyone in the town keeps telling them that the old beautiful mansion is haunted. Trina isn't sure if she believes it or not, but one day she finds a tiny porcelain doll named Augustine who can talk. Augustine and the old house help her adjust to her new home and uncover the mysteries of why everyone thinks the house is …
How To Share With A Bear, Carlie Smith
How To Share With A Bear, Carlie Smith
Children's Book and Media Review
Thomas leaves his cozy cave made of blankets and pillows for just a few minutes only to find it occupied by a bear when he returns! He tries to distract the bear with blueberries, back-scratchers, toys, and honey oat cereal, but these tactics work only fleetingly--each time the bear returns! Finally nestled in with a flashlight and book, Thomas has to confront the bear who longs to join him. Thomas decides to share and allows the bear, who is really his little brother, into the cave. But the two of them are too big and cause a cave-in! Together they …
So You Want To Be President?, Kristie Hinckley
So You Want To Be President?, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Have you ever considered being President of the United States? So You Want to Be President might just convince you to pursue that, or maybe completely change your mind! The United States has had many different presidents, some better than others. You’ll learn from this book that the job of a President isn’t all that easy. And you’ll even learn all the obscure facts that you never knew about U.S. presidents, starting from the first president George Washington. Watercolors, pen and ink, and pastels were used to create the illustrations in this book. Each character has a caricature-like look to …
Edda: A Little Valkyrie's First Day Of School, Aylea Stephens
Edda: A Little Valkyrie's First Day Of School, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Edda is the littlest Valkyrie and loves her life of adventure in Asgard, but she also wants to make friends her own age. When she tells her father this, he lets her go to earth and go to school with other kids. She has never been away from Asgard, but her papa assures her that even little Valkyries can be very brave. School is hard at first, especially when she is trying to make new friends and learning to follow the rules, but soon Edda finds a way to make friends in class and to do well in her new …