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San Francisco Chronicle's 2017 Holiday Books Gift Guide
Check out the San Francisco Chronicle’s 2017 Holiday Books Gift Guide – with tons of suggestions for adults,teens and kids in a wide variety of genres and formats! (If you’re looking for the children’s selections, head to the bottom of list!)
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Picture Book Month: Christmas
I know that this is a classic (and much of my list for Picture Book Month were more recent titles), but my memories for this story are so clear in my mind… it’s hard to choose any other book. Rather than telling you about the plot, I’m just going to…
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Picture Book Month: School
The first day of school can be nerve-wracking… even for the school itself! This is the adorable story of a school who’s not quite sure that he wants to be a school. Lots of kids seems like a lot of work, but after learning the kids names, learning about shapes…
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The Best of…
It’s that time of year when the Best Of… lists start rolling out! I love to see what others think are the best in each genre for the year. Sometime I agree, sometime I don’t, but I almost always get some new titles from these lists. Check out Chicago Public…
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Picture Book Month: Freedom
Kadir Nelson is an amazingly talented painter whose illustrations jump off the page and come to life with rich oil paint and pencil details. This is the remarkable story of Henry and how he actually shipped himself to freedom in a wooden crate. Of course, being a slave, Henry’s spent…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Winter TBR List
Besides the Best of 2017 lists and the ALA Youth Media Awards on February 12th, I’ve included ten new middle grade titles that I’m excited about! Check ’em out! Flower Moon by Gina Linko (January 2, 2018) The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor (January 23, 2018)…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 11/27/17
As expected, I didn’t get as much reading done as I expected to this week, as I was spending much of my week with family for Thanksgiving. I was able to finish The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar which are both set in the…
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Picture Book Month: Reading and Writing
What better book to explore when taking about reading and writing than a picture book biography about the man who created the thesaurus that we know and love today. Roget liked words and he liked writing lists, so he combined these two loves and published his first book of word…
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Picture Book Month: Turtles
Mossy is the fictional story of a Eastern Box Turtle with a living garden on it’s shell. She is captured by a woman and forced to live in a viewing pavilion at a museum, when all poor Mossy wants is to go back to her pond and find her friend…
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Picture Book Month: Cities
A little boy goes to visit his Nana in the city – but he finds it too crowded, too loud and no place his Nana should live. But, with Nana’s help and a new cape that makes him feel brave, the little boy comes to love the city with his…