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Emily's Blue Period, Aylea Stephens
Emily's Blue Period, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Emily wants to be an artist, especially when she learns about a famous artist named Pablo Picasso. She wants to change her name to be longer to match his, mix things up like he did and mix things up like he did, even though her own family seems to be in cubes and all mixed up. When she goes to the store with her dad and her little brother, Jack, it is obvious that Jack is having a hard time with their family being mixed up too. Emily starts her blue period because when Pablo Picasso was very sad, he …
Disney Magical Dice, Aylea Stephens
Disney Magical Dice, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
In Disney’s first mobile board game, players can go on their own adventures with their favorite characters. In a game somewhat like Monopoly, players roll dice, buy properties, can be put in jail (or the Haunted Mansion), and draw fortune cards to change up game play. Players can connect with friends and family over Facebook, internet, or Bluetooth to play together. To enhance their gameplay, players can buy special dice, magical items, and collect character cards. With character cards, players can choose who they want to play as and level up the characters to make them more powerful.
Disney Magic Kingdoms, Aylea Stephens
Disney Magic Kingdoms, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Most people don’t get to tell Disney how to design their parks, but in this game players can create their own Disney theme park with the help of their favorite characters. A curse has been cast over the Magic Kingdoms, but by unlocking characters and completing quests players can get rid of the curse and built a kingdom full of their favorite rides from the parks and locations from the movies of the characters. The characters currently able to be unlocked are from Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Wall-E, Peter Pan, Tangled, and Mickey and his friends. Players collect magic from …
Captain America: Civil War, Whitney Troxel
Captain America: Civil War, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Since the formation of the Avengers, the team has functioned as a private organization. They’re mission is to protect the world, but despite their best efforts innocent people are often hurt or killed during their operations. The United Nations drafts a law called the Sokovia Accords stating that the Avengers can only act under the direction of a UN committee. The team is split on whether they should sign the Accords or not. Iron Man, Black Widow, War Machine, and Vision agree to sign the Accords. Captain America, Falcon, and Scarlet Witch decide not to. The Accords are signed at …
Woodpecker Wham!, Sarah Willie
Woodpecker Wham!, Sarah Willie
Children's Book and Media Review
Swoop, flap, and fly through the world of woodpeckers in April Pulley Sayre’s Woodpecker Wham! Sayre’s carefully chosen rhymes take readers into the woods to observe woodpeckers up close. The detailed illustrations by Steve Jenkins are done in a collage style using layers of paper. There are scenes of woodpeckers building homes, hiding from predators, cleaning themselves, and raising fledglings. There are informational pages at the end of the book that go into detail about what’s happening on each page of the book. It covers feeding, home building, raising babies, etc.
Witherwood Reform School #2: Lost And Found, Tessa Mcmillan
Witherwood Reform School #2: Lost And Found, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
While lost in their Marvin-mindset, Tobias and Charlotte are attacked in their room by a creature who supposedly protects the Witherwood grounds. Soon after Charlotte is whisked off to the girls’ dormitory leaving Tobias imprisoned in his confining cot accommodations. However, Tobias stumbles upon his secret notations and injuries himself out of Marvin’s mental hold. With a clear head, Tobias searches for his sister and a way out. During his explorations, he meets three sane students who also want to escape: Keith, Meghan, and Patrick. Meghan shocks Charlotte out of her hypnotic state and Charlotte joins their group in planning …
Sesamestreet.Org, Cynthia Phillips
Sesamestreet.Org, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Sesame Street has been airing on national television since 1969 and is now available with the click of a mouse. The purpose of Sesame Street is to help children around the world grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. The website is designed for children featuring bright colors and large buttons made for them to be able to navigate on their own. Sesamestreet.org features games, videos, arts, crafts and many more activities for preschoolers. There are games such as “spotting the difference” with Elmo or decorating a pizza with Cookie Monster. In addition to the diversions for children there is also an …
The Selected Letters Of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sydnee Burr
The Selected Letters Of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
In this rare collection of letters composed by Laura Ingalls Wilder in her adult years, readers get an inside look into the mastermind behind the Little House on the Prairie series. With no story line or plot to follow, readers instead follow Wilder through her aging years on the farm and through her many cross-country travels. Williams Anderson connects the letters with background information and explains the subject matter throughout in brackets.
School For Sidekicks, Aylea Stephens
School For Sidekicks, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Evan Quick loves superheroes more than almost anyone else, and he would do anything to be one. He has no flying, super strength, or any of the other superhero skills that he wants desperately to have. When he somehow manages to survive a supervillain’s death ray and save his favorite super hero, he is sent to the Academy of Metahuman Operatives. The school is different from what he expects, and his mentor, Foxman, is not thrilled to be a super hero. As he learns about the school, he discovers that there is more to being a hero than he might …
Miss Fortune Cookie, Aylea Stephens
Miss Fortune Cookie, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Erin desperately wants to be Chinese because of how many Chinese friends she has, so she secretly runs a popular advice blog called Miss Fortune Cookie. When one of her best friends sends a letter to the blog and then acts on the advice, Erin feels like she needs to fix what happens afterward. As she and her friends are dealing with romance, parents, and choosing which college to go to after they graduate, Erin has to learn how to delicately give advice when she herself doesn’t always know the right answers of what she should do.
Magic School Bus Presents: Wild Weather, Liz Kazandzhy
Magic School Bus Presents: Wild Weather, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Jump on the Magic School Bus and come explore wild weather! You’ll start high in the clouds and then see the water cycle first-hand, after which you’ll be blown around in wind, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Between thunderstorms and snowstorms, freezing weather and hot weather, this trip is sure to keep you on your toes. You’ll even learn how weather is forecasted and how the climate is changing.
Listen To The Moon, Sydnee Burr
Listen To The Moon, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
Listen to the Moon explores the use of fictional primary sources in an unforgettable tale about being lost and then found. 12 year old Merry is sailing to London with her mother from Manhattan on the Lusitania, a ship destined to be sunk by German submarines in the height of World War I. Miraculously surviving, Merry clings onto a floating piano from the ship while clutching onto the hope of being saved. The sun, isolation and starvation cause Merry to lose her memory, her sense of self and any inkling of where she came from or where she's going. When …
Lily The Unicorn, Aylea Stephens
Lily The Unicorn, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Lily is a unicorn and she likes to make things. She likes to make gadgets, music, and messes, but she likes making friends most of all. When she makes a new friend, Roger, she’s worried that he doesn’t get out and have as much fun as he should. Lily plans some adventures, but Roger doesn’t want to go. She tries to come up with all kinds of ideas to do together, but when Roger isn’t interested in any of them, she wonders if something is wrong with Roger. Roger explains that there are a lot of uncertain things in the …
Letters With Pooh, Cynthia Phillips
Letters With Pooh, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Winnie the Pooh and his friends take the lead in this app for preschool children. The goal of Letters with Pooh is to teach tracing and recognizing letters. This is accomplished by tracing activities and matching letter games. The activities are interlaced with interactive video clips of Winnie the Pooh and his friends on quests for honey and letters. Within the app is also a parent section that is able to be accessed only by readers. The parent section allows you to add accounts for up to 4 children. There you can also change the difficulty, check your child’s progress, …
Just Itzy, Aylea Stephens
Just Itzy, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Itzy loves being a spider and the things he gets to do as a spider, but he hates his nickname. Everyone calls him Itzy Bitzy and he can’t stand it. He wants to convince everyone that he's not a spiderling anymore. His brother says that grown-up spiders catch their own lunches, so Itzy decides to leave the one his mom made him at home. He tries to build a web, but a girl scares the fly he’s chasing away. He sees another fly, but an old lady swallows it. When he goes to investigate, he gets swallowed, along with a …
The Jungle Book, Whitney Troxel
The Jungle Book, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Discovered as a small child in the jungle, Mowgli was raised by a pack of wolves. However, when Shere Khan, a tiger, learns of his presence in the jungle, he threatens not only to kill Mowgli but anyone else who tries to protect him. Bagheera, a black panther, volunteers to take Mowgli to the man village in order to protect him and the wolf pack. Angry that Mowgli escaped, Shere Khan kills Akela, the leader of the wolves, in order to bring Mowgli back. Mowgli meets Baloo, a loveable but lazy bear, on his way to the village. Desperate to …
Jazz Age Josephine, Cynthia Phillips
Jazz Age Josephine, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Have you ever heard of Josephine Baker? Well, after you read this story you will want to know more about her life. This is a biographical picture book that highlights the life of Josephine Baker, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906. She is quite a showgirl even at a young age, but black in a time when segregation was a way of life. She works her way onto the stage and after several years decides to move to France for her career. Once in France her career takes off and her dreams are coming true. But being …
Imaginary Fred, Aylea Stephens
Imaginary Fred, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Being alone is no fun, but if you’re lucky, you will be able to have an imaginary friend to keep you company. Fred is an imaginary friend. He floated around alone until, one day, a lonely child wished for him and he could go play with that child until the child grew out of him. Every time a child made other friends, Fred would fade away until someone new wanted him. He finally makes a friend named Sam who is the dream friend that Fred has always wanted, and he knows that when Sam doesn’t need him anymore will be …
I Get Dressed, Cynthia Phillips
I Get Dressed, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
A fox in a dress, a rabbit in shoes and a turtle in a top hat are just a few of the fun characters you will encounter in this board book. The animals from the book My Mother Goose by David McPhail make an appearance wearing various everyday clothing items. The illustrations are sketch like in pastel with plain backgrounds. Each of the 11 pages introduce a simple wardrobe vocabulary word for small readers.
Hiding Out At The Pancake Palace, Aylea Stephens
Hiding Out At The Pancake Palace, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Elvis Ruby was supposed to win the biggest reality TV show, Tween Star. He doesn’t. Cecilia is supposed to be able to hear the music of the trees that played when she was born. She doesn’t. When Elvis runs away to the middle of New Jersey to avoid the press after he panics on stage and loses the competition, he meets Cecilia. The two of them explore their interesting town to discover their own music in the midst of disguising Elvis, helping Elvis’s Aunt Emily and cousin Millicent keep the press off his tail, and learning more about their own …
The Croods, Kiersten Carr
The Croods, Kiersten Carr
Children's Book and Media Review
The Croods are a family of cavemen who survive in a harsh, hostile world by following strict rules enforced by their patriarch, Grug. As long as they stay in the cave, avoid anything new, and “never not be afraid,” Grug believes they will be safe. Eep, his teenage daughter, is sick of these limitations and feels that something in their lives is missing, leading her to frequently butt heads with her father. When the Crood’s cave is destroyed in an earthquake, they must team up with a inventive cave boy named Guy and his pet sloth, Belt, in order to …
Cleopatra: Queen Of Egypt, Aylea Stephens
Cleopatra: Queen Of Egypt, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Many stories are told about Cleopatra and the exciting life she led, but sometimes it is hard to tell fact from fiction. This book is a mix of fictional and nonfictional things about her life. The double spread pages focus on an aspect or event in her life, detailing her birth, childhood, path to becoming a paragraph, falling in love, war, and her final death. Each page also has flaps to include extra details about life in Rome and Egypt at the time of Cleopatra. Each page is covered in illustrations, small paragraphs of text, and usually has a fictional …
The Blackthorn Key, Tessa Mcmillan
The Blackthorn Key, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Several apothecaries have been murdered and apprentice Christopher Rowe fears for the life of his kindly master, Benedict Blackthorn. After a randomly abusive episode with Master Blackthorn, Christopher returns home to find Blackthorn murdered and their shop ravaged. In the midst of the mess, Christopher finds an encrypted note left by Blackthorn. Christopher takes the message and tries to solve its contents with the help of his best friend, Tom. However, the authorities pass the blame of Blackthorn’s death onto Christopher. Now on the run, Christopher unearths Blackthorn’s involvement in a secret alchemist society where they pursue the Prima Materia, …
Barely Behaving Daughters, Kiersten Carr
Barely Behaving Daughters, Kiersten Carr
Children's Book and Media Review
In this off-beat, provocative alphabet book, 26 young ladies romp through the alphabet committing alliterative crimes against animals. From Annette and Beatrice to Yanicka and Zoe, each letter of the alphabet is demonstrated in a series of captioned pictures showing the titular “barely behaving daughters” shaking things up with a variety of animals from A to Z.
Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story Of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen Of Magic, Aylea Stephens
Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story Of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen Of Magic, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Addie never wanted to be ordinary. Even though it shocks her family (and several other people), she went on the stage and performed as a dancer and bicyclist. On her way to America, she met a man named Alexander, but he was known as the famous magician Herrmann the Great. They decide to get married and she joins him in his performances onstage doing magic and even getting shot out of a cannon. When her husband dies, she decides to take the show into her own hands and become the first woman magician. To get people to come, she does …
The Turtle Of Oman, Natalia Kelley
The Turtle Of Oman, Natalia Kelley
Children's Book and Media Review
Aref has just one week before he has to leave behind everything that is familiar to him—his friends, his cat, his home and neighbors, and his grandfather. The Al-Amri family is moving to Michigan for three years. Aref's family encourages discovery, learning, and adventure but, now that it is time to leave, Aref's adventurous spirit falters. How can he say good-bye to the only place he has ever known? A special week spent with his wise grandfather, visiting the places that he loves, Aref is guided to build up memories and find the courage he needs to embark on this …
Those Darn Squirrels Fly South, Aylea Stephens
Those Darn Squirrels Fly South, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
The squirrels in Old Man Fookwire’s backyard are very smart. They paint themselves, build glyders and zeppelins, and annoy Fookwire. This year when the birds fly south, the squirrels build their own flying machines so that they can find out what the birds do when they go away for the winter. They go to the beach with the birds, eat new kinds of snacks, and enjoy their new surroundings. They even call Old Man Fookwire long distance. Before long, the old man realizes that he misses the birds (and even the squirrels, although he won’t admit it), so he goes …
Struck, Shelley Darrington
Struck, Shelley Darrington
Children's Book and Media Review
Felicity Walker didn’t know what she was expecting when she got a job at a matchmaking agency, but it wasn’t that she would become an actual cupid. Armed with a hot pink PDA, she’s given a quota of matches to complete and set loose on her high school. When she decides that two people would make a good couple, all she has to do is send matching emails and both fall under a love spell for two weeks. Throughout the three books, Stupid Cupid, Flirting with Disaster, and Pucker Up (combined as one in Struck), Felicity struggles with making matches …
The Psi Chronicles: Freakling, Torin Kelley
The Psi Chronicles: Freakling, Torin Kelley
Children's Book and Media Review
Taemon is a boy with incredible powers. In fact, everyone in his city grows up with psi: the ability to move objects with their minds. Everything is great, until one day, Taemon suffers an accident that traumatizes him to the point of losing his psi. When it is discovered that he no longer has psi, he is exiled to a colony where no one has psi and everyone works with their hands. It takes some getting used to, but Taemon begins to enjoy his stay and is impressed by the kindness of the "powerless" people. But soon, Taemon accidentally leaks …
The Pout-Pout Fish In The Big-Big Dark, Ariel Woodbury
The Pout-Pout Fish In The Big-Big Dark, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Ms. Clam yawns and a current knocks her pearl away, so Mr. Fish promises to help her find it. He looks but can't find it so he has to swim down where there's less light. Mr. Fish wants to keep his promise to his friend, but he's scared of the dark! He swims down and down some more until he's in a deep, dark trench. He almost heads back before he finds the pearl because he is scared, but then his friend Miss Shimmer swims with him and he feels braver since he's not alone. They find the pearl and …