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Picture Book Review: Little Kit’s Wish
Story Little Kit’s Wish is such a sweet picture book about a little fox learning to trust his heart. Once in a blue moon, the Lady of Light grants wishes to the forest animals and all of Little Kit’s friends and neighbors know exactly what they’re wishing for. But, how…
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Young Adult Genres: Fantasy
New month, new book list series! This month I’m diving into young adult titles! Over the past few months, I’ve shared picture books, chapter books, and middle grade stories, and I don’t want to leave out the teenagers, so here we go! Young adult novels are geared toward kids from…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Cottagecore Middle Grade
My Middle Grade Books with Autumn Vibes list has been really popular this season! And with this week’s Fall Freebie prompt for Top Ten Tuesday, I thought it might be a good idea to share some more titles for this type of reader! So, today, I’m sharing ten middle grade…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Fall 2026 To-Read List
There are so many great middle grade books coming out this fall! And I’m only sharing a couple of them! I love exploring new authors and titles and seeing what some of my favorites authors have written next. I’ve included publication dates on titles that haven’t been published yet, so…
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Middle Grade Genres: Fantasy
New month, new book list series! This month we’re moving on to middle grade genres! I’ve already shared picture book genres and chapter book genres, so let’s dive into middle grade. Middle grade books is a term used in the book industry to describe titles that are written for an…
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Chapter Book Genres: Fantasy
So, last month I focused on highlighting genres for our picture book readers, this month I’ll be focusing on newly independent readers and offering up some genre suggestions in the chapter book arena. Let’s start with what is a chapter book. While the term gets thrown around for any book…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Series I Want to Catch Up On
I am notoriously horrible at reading series. I am not great at remembering the details of storylines and usually by the time I get to the next book in a series, I’ve read a number of other things in between and can’t remember the details of the last book! Or,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Freebie (YA Releases for Fall 2026)
Today’s prompt is a Cover Freebie, which means we get a little creative license to decide what direction we want to go! And, since I’m exhausted, I decided to go for the easiest route I could – promoting some upcoming releases in the YA book world! Check out these YA…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I HAD to Have Immediately but Still Haven’t Read
Last year at the ALA Conference, I grabbed all of these ARCs from the exhibit hall and I still haven’t read them! It’s like a curse, if a book is mine to own, it sits on the shelf and I don’t tend to read it. If it’s a library book,…
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Picture Book Genres: Fantasy
While genres become more of an interest as kids become independent readers, I love the idea of sharing picture books that can also fall into genres as well. And maybe your young readers don’t have a strong opinion about the genres they read, I think exposing them to a wide-variety…
