Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
Sixty-three percent of millennials and Generation Z in the US were unaware that 6 million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust, according to a survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The nonprofit organization called the lack of understanding “shocking.” NBC News Inside: Amazing Holocaust books for kids. Even if…
The Children’s Choice Book Awards 2013! The children have spoken (and voted) and this is what they like! Kindergarten to Second Grade Children’s Choice Book Award Winner Nighttime Ninja by Barbara DaCosta, illustrated by Ed Young Yay! My son and I loved this book and we think an award for illustrator Ed Young is…
Celebrate Children’s Book Week with a week of giveaways hosted by Mother Daughter Book Reviews and Youth Literature Reviews. 90 bloggers will be doing giveaways all this week as part of Kid Lit Giveaway Hop!! I am giving away a box of chapter books and other goodies. Enter using the Rafflecopter below. a Rafflecopter giveaway …
All three of my kids, ages 13, 11, and 8 delighted in this clever picture book with a book-within-a-book-within-a-book format. I figured if this picture book could captivate a teenager, it has a lock on all younger kids. I only wish the pages were a tad more sturdy because this is a book that is…
It could just be me but I find that there is something poetic and Old Hollywood-y about Florida’s past. Perhaps it is just the way old Florida is portrayed in children’s books. The setting also seems like a backdoor shortcut to a Newbery award. From our last trip to Florida in North Captiva Island, we…
Our Percy Jackson The Lightening Thief graphic novel book club for little boys was low key but successful. We made duct tape swords while answering trivia questions and eating spaghetti.
For the last day of April and National Poetry Month, I am so excited to welcome my guest author, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater of poetry picture book Forest Has a Song. She has inspired me, a poetry-phobe to explore poetry with her gentle coaxing so I asked her to please write a post on teaching poetry…