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Curious George 3: Back To The Jungle, Amanda Durrant
Curious George 3: Back To The Jungle, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
The RDS on a space satellite that controls the flow of dams in Africa is broken, but there are no space ships that can hold a human available to go to space to fix it. Mr. Houston asks Ted (The Man in the Yellow Hat) if George can complete the mission to save all the animals from the severe flooding in Africa. Ted is reluctant as first, as he fears for George's safety, but agrees to let George complete the training. George passes all the space training and goes off to retrieve the RDS from the satellite to bring back …
Wintercraft #1: Shadowcry, Abigail Packard
Wintercraft #1: Shadowcry, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Kate Winters lives with her uncle above their book shop in Morvane. She loves books and loves spending time with her uncle Artemis and with her best friend Edgar. But when Morvane is pilfered by warders in an attempt to find anyone who is Skilled (people that can cross the veil between this life and the life beyond death) Kate discovers she is one of the Skilled and is taken. She is whisked away by Silas, the most feared of the warders, to be brought to Da’ru, a woman who has made it her life's work to become an expert …
Polar Bear Night, Kati Penovich
Polar Bear Night, Kati Penovich
Children's Book and Media Review
On a cold, clear night, a polar bear cub wakes inside her den. Her mother is still sleeping, but she feels drawn to go outside. The curious little polar bear wanders past walruses, seals, and whales. Everyone is sleeping but her. An expectant hush covers the snowy landscape, and still she keeps walking. Finally, the cub finds herself on a snowy hill where she witnesses a beautiful star shower that illuminates everything around her. The little polar bear watches in awe and then, sleepy once more, returns to her mother in their warm, safe den.
Mimi And Bear In The Snow, Ariel Woodbury
Mimi And Bear In The Snow, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Mimi takes Bear, her best friend and blue teddy bear, out to play pretend in the snow. Bear is always with Mimi. He is there while Mimi ice skates and makes a scary, hairy snow beast, but when it is time to go inside Bear is gone! The next day Mimi goes outside to look for Bear where they had played. The ice skating rink is gone, but Bear is not there either. Finally, she goes to the scary, hairy snow beast and the snow beast is gone. But Bear is there! From then on Mimi takes Bear everywhere in …
Swords Of Joseph, Lisa Packard
Swords Of Joseph, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Joshua and Caleb want to be free, but Pharaoh will not let the Israelites go. Moses insists he must because God has declared it. There is a prophecy about the bones of Joseph leading Israel out of Egypt. Moses sends Joshua, Caleb, and Gaddi on a quest to recover the bones and fulfill the prophecy. Joshua struggles to complete this task, but Caleb helps him find the faith he needs. While they are out on their quest, Moses brings about the plagues against Pharaoh so the Israelites will be let go. The priests of Pharaoh come up with a plan …
The Polar Express, Tracy Adler
The Polar Express, Tracy Adler
Children's Book and Media Review
As children we embrace fantasies because we love the enchantment. Growing up tends to cause us to lose that magic and mystery. A little boy still wants to believe that Santa is real, and he is taken on a trip of a lifetime to prove just that, despite what others may or may not believe.
Arthur Christmas, Amanda Durrant
Arthur Christmas, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
It's Christmas eve in the North Pole as the current Santa is preparing for what is thought to be his 70th and final mission of delivering presents. He doesn't use just an ordinary sleigh though, but a highly advanced spaceship called the S-1 that is managed by Santa's eldest son Steve. In the hustle and bustle of packing the sleigh, a present falls off the conveyor belt and is left behind. Santa's youngest son Arthur is on a mission to get the present delivered in time for Christmas morning, but Arthur is only responsible for the mail as he often …
The Berenstain Bears' Old-Fashioned Christmas, Amanda Durrant
The Berenstain Bears' Old-Fashioned Christmas, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
This book follows the adventure of the Berenstein Bear family as they visit Grizzly Gramps and Gran for the holidays. When they get there, the TV is unplugged and the bear cubs get to experience an old-fashioned Christmas. The cubs listen to the player piano, cut down their own Christmas tree from the forest, enjoy a home cooked feast, listen to carolers, and go for a sleigh ride before getting the cookies, milk, and stockings ready for Christmas Eve. The book ends with the Bear family opening presents and celebrating Christmas together.
On The Road To Find Out, Abigail Packard
On The Road To Find Out, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
On the Road to Find Out is a comical, upbeat coming of age story, particularly perfect for high school juniors and seniors that are just learning to make their way into the after-high-school scene. Alice Davis just wants to go to Yale. She’s the top student at her high school and Yale is the only college that she applied for. But when she gets rejected in the admissions process, Alice is at a loss and spirals into a whirlpool of self-doubt and self-pity. With the help of her overly enthusiastic mother and her best friend, Alice picks up running as …
The Christmas Quiet Book, Ariel Woodbury
The Christmas Quiet Book, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
The Christmas season has lots of noises. There are carolers and bells, but there are also lots of quiet moments. Children are quietly searching for presents and sitting quietly in timeout after getting caught. They try to knock on a door with mittens on and watch their breath turn to fog outside.
Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide To Exceptionally Weird, Wild, And Wonderful Foods: An Intrepid Eater's Digest, Aylea Stephens
Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide To Exceptionally Weird, Wild, And Wonderful Foods: An Intrepid Eater's Digest, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
For Andrew Zimmern, host of the TV show Bizarre Foods, no food is too weird. In this book, he explores foods from around the world that might seem unusual to eat, such as alligator meat, brains, cockroaches, dung beetles, garlic ice cream, haggis, liver, octopus, rabbit, stuffed lamb spleen, turducken, and many others. He discusses the benefits, or lack of benefits, from each food, but then expands the information with recipes, photos, related trivia about the area it comes from; famous sayings related to the food, the area it comes from, or other fun trivia.
Amelia Bedelia By The Yard, Liz Kazandzhy
Amelia Bedelia By The Yard, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Amelia Bedelia’s mother is a huge fan of garage sales, and when her father suggests doing a garage sale of their own, they start getting everything ready. At first Amelia Bedelia is afraid to sell their garage, but her parents change their sign to say “yard sale” and explain that they won’t be selling the actual yard, just whatever is in the yard. Once she agrees to that and the yard sale begins, she helps as best she can. One woman expresses interest in their sewing machine and asks for a yardstick as well. After some misunderstanding of what a …
The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook, Julia Mulligan
The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook, Julia Mulligan
Children's Book and Media Review
Sneak a peek into the creative process of accomplished and prolific illustrator, Shaun Tan, through this thoughtfully curated collection of sketches, both finished and unfinished. The Bird King: an artist’s notebook not only showcases Tan’s quirky, imaginative style with its abundance of mechanical creatures and surrealistic scenarios, but also demonstrates his high degree of technical skill with a variety of studies from life. Alongside the sketches are some of Tan’s handwritten notes, as well as longer explanatory pages, which help the reader to pull it all together.
Fun & Easy Baking Recipes For Kids!: Cool Cake Mix Cupcakes, Chelsie Troxel
Fun & Easy Baking Recipes For Kids!: Cool Cake Mix Cupcakes, Chelsie Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Cupcakes and more cupcakes! Kids will love trying to make a delicious cupcake all by themselves. The book begins with thorough instructions on how to prepare and execute the baking process to make yummy treats. There are symbols that are easy for kids to understand along with tips to be successful along the way. Kitchen supplies, lists of ingredients, and proper technique are laid out simply so that any kid can try their hand at cupcake making. The book is filled with delicious cupcakes and frosting choices that any kid will be happy to make and eat!
Oh No, School!, Cynthia Phillips
Oh No, School!, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
A young girl named Holly does not want to go to school one day. She hides in her closet and will not tell her mother why. Holly’s mother finds her and uses Holly’s favorite puppet, Bunny, to talk to her about the issues she is facing that make her hesitant to attend class. Holly is reassured about her concerns and is given advice on how to handle stressful classroom situations. After a great talk with “Bunny,” Holly and her mother share a hug and rush her out to catch the bus. School doesn’t seem so scary anymore to Holly.
Amelia Bedelia Hits The Trail, Liz Kazandzhy
Amelia Bedelia Hits The Trail, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Amelia Bedelia’s class is taking a field trip out into nature. After seeing all sorts of interesting plants and animals, the class stops to have lunch by the stream. When Amelia Bedelia misunderstands the teacher’s comment, “Let’s go, Wade!” she rushes into the stream to wade, and soon the whole class joins her in the fun. During the hike, each student is expected to find something for the nature table back at the school. Amelia Bedelia’s classmates all find things relatively quickly, but she searches far and wide for her own item. At first she gathers leaves, but when a …
The Smartest Animals: Elephants, Aylea Stephens
The Smartest Animals: Elephants, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Elephants are among the smartest animals. This book talks about how elephants use their intelligence to survive. Their intelligence allows them to live in herds, under direction of the matriarch and other adult females to teach calves how to behave. They communicate with other elephants, use their trunks as tools, help injured elephants survive, and have excellent memories. The book also talks about basic elephant facts like what they eat and what is threatening them in their natural habitats. A list of facts in the back tells more simple information about elephants, and a glossary can help readers who are …
I Love You Already!, Chelsie Troxel
I Love You Already!, Chelsie Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Bear lives next door to Duck, who always wants to be busy doing something fun with Bear. Bear, on the other hand, needs some time to relax alone. Duck insists that the two of them go out together and have some quality time because Duck wants bear to like him! With all of Duck's demands, Bear insists that he likes Duck just like family. Duck has quite a few questions to ask Bear and usually Bear responds patiently. The two have a nice day together and are still pals, even if Duck has a incessant personality!
Harry Potter And The Sacred Text, Abigail Packard
Harry Potter And The Sacred Text, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text is a website designed to share podcasts and other information that centers on reading the Harry Potter books as if they were sacred texts. The producers, Vanessa Zoltan and Casper ter Kuile, define reading the books as sacred texts in three different ways: trusting the texts, reading the texts with rigor and ritual, and reading the texts within a community setting. Zoltan and ter Kuile post a podcast once a week. Each podcast centers around one chapter from the books which they discuss in chronological order. They discuss each chapter with a specific theme …
Samson In The Snow, Whitney Troxel
Samson In The Snow, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
On sunny days Samson the Mammoth likes to tend his dandelion patch while he waits for a friend to appear. One day, a little red bird appears and asks if she can take some flowers to a friend who is having a bad day. When it starts to snow, Samson starts to worry about the red bird. He decides to look for her and make sure she is okay. Along the way, Samson finds a little mouse in the snow who is also looking for someone. They search together and find the red bird. Samson takes the bird and the …
Little Red And The Very Hungry Lion, Aylea Stephens
Little Red And The Very Hungry Lion, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
In an African twist to the classic Little Red Riding Hood tale, Little Red has to travel through the safari to bring her Aunt Rosie spot medicine. She passes by a wide variety of safari animals until she encounters a Very Hungry Lion. When he decides to dress up as Aunt Rosie so he can eat Little Red, the little girl knows exactly what’s going on and decides to teach the lion an important lesson. She makes him fix up his hair, brush his teeth, and wear much better clothes until finally the Lion learns his lesson and decides to …
Amelia Bedelia Tries Her Luck, Liz Kazandzhy
Amelia Bedelia Tries Her Luck, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
When Amelia Bedelia breaks a mirror, she’s a little disappointed but thinks nothing more of it. That is, until she gets to school and her friends tell her that breaking a mirror is bad luck! Worse than that, it’s Friday the Thirteenth, which means even more bad luck! Her trusty friends enlist in helping her get her luck back by searching the playground for items like four-leaf clovers and a rabbit’s foot. When that fails, Amelia tries to make her own luck by drawing pictures of lucky things. When her teacher sees, it prompts a fun and informative classroom discussion …
Curious George Discovers Plants, Tracy Adler
Curious George Discovers Plants, Tracy Adler
Children's Book and Media Review
George is curious as to where the fresh vegetables that he eats come from. He has dinner at one of his favorite restaurants and finds that more fresh vegetables need to be harvested so he can have his dish. The chef takes George up and shows him his garden and where his fresh vegetables come from. George then decides to help the Chef by pulling what he thinks are weeds, but doesn't know exactly what weeds are. The curious monkey tries to remedy things but he just keeps making things worse until the man with the yellow hat figures out …
Pie In The Sky, Aylea Stephens
Pie In The Sky, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Being the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe isn’t as great as it sounds. Joss’s older brothers all have jobs helping to run the universe and all he gets to do is deliver pies. Sure, the pies might have the secrets of the universe in them, but it’s not as cool as the jobs his brothers have. When someone on Earth makes the huge mistake of looking at the person who makes the pies and his best friend’s parents are erased along with the whole planet, Joss wants to do whatever it takes to bring Earth back. …
A Wish For Christmas, Katelyn Osborn
A Wish For Christmas, Katelyn Osborn
Children's Book and Media Review
Sara has always been shy and timid, but when her supervisor at work takes her idea and passes it off as his own she realizes something must change. Embarrassed and upset, she runs into Santa who gives her an early gift of one wish. She wishes for the courage to stand up for herself not believing it will come true. But when she confronts her boss in front of everyone, including the head of the company Peter, she realizes Santa did make her wish come true and for the next 48 hours she has all the confidence she’s ever wanted. …
This Song Will Save Your Life, Lisi Hong
This Song Will Save Your Life, Lisi Hong
Children's Book and Media Review
After an attempted suicide, 911 call, hospital stay, and 24-hour watch by her divorced parents, Elise was back to normal high school life, which means bullies everywhere and no friends to be found. Elise has never been “cool” or “popular,” so when she finds an underground club and people who instantly accept her, she falls in love with the people, the music, and the judgement-free environment. Most importantly, she falls in love with DJing. Once she leaves the club though, she is back to being uncool Elise. As her DJing prowess increases and an offer to DJ on Friday nights …
Ghosts, Sebastian Shiraishi
Ghosts, Sebastian Shiraishi
Children's Book and Media Review
Catrina doesn’t believe in ghosts. Or that’s what she thought, until her family decided to move to northern California due to her sister Maya’s Cystic Fibrosis, a disease that affects breathing and digestion. The small town of Bahia de la Luna is full of ghosts, particularly around an abandoned Spanish Mission. The two sisters, along with their new friend Carlos, go explore and talk to the ghosts, but Maya’s health keeps on declining so she can’t attend their annual celebration for the dead. Catrina decides to go to the party, where she meets Jose, an eight-year-old ghost, and they decide …
Amelia Bedelia Is For The Birds, Liz Kazandzhy
Amelia Bedelia Is For The Birds, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Amelia Bedelia loves playing on her swing set in the backyard as part of her daily routine. But before she knows it, there’s a big problem—robins are building a nest right on top of the slide! At first, Amelia Bedelia wants to get rid of the nest and scare the birds away, but when her mom explains there could soon be a little bird family, she decides it’d be better to wait and see what happens. She even gathers twigs, leaves, grass, felt, and yarn to assist the birds with their nest-building. As expected, the birds rebuild their nest and …
Penguin's Big Adventure, Sydnee Burr
Penguin's Big Adventure, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
Inspired by the idea of being the first penguin to set foot on the north pole, Penguin decides it's time for an adventure. He meticulously plans and then sets forth on his journey. He leaves behind all his friends who are busy working on their own world records in search of something new and undiscovered. Upon reaching his destination he celebrates...alone. Penguin soon feels very lonely and afraid, but it isn't long before he finds a new friendly face. When Penguin finally arrives home again, he discovers the beauty in the idea that the very best part of an adventure …
If You're Reading This, Cynthia Frazier
If You're Reading This, Cynthia Frazier
Children's Book and Media Review
Everyone said that Mike’s dad was a hero and that he died fighting for his county, but that didn’t make being fatherless an easy thing to live with. About eight years later, just before Mike's sixteenth birthday, the first letter appears in the mailbox. It begins, “Dear Michael, If you’re reading this . . .” The letters are like a conversation with the man who had died when he was a child; letters full of love, support, and advice from the grave. Just as soldiers complete missions, Mike is given ‘missions’ from his father that encouraged him to try new …